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Ambassadorship or Not, Possible Mexico Pick Carlos Pascual Likes Margaritas

By Paul Bedard, Andrew Burt

March 30, 2009 RSS Feed Print

By Andrew Burt, Washington Whispers

We really don't know if former Ukraine Ambassador Carlos Pascual will be President Obama's ambassador to Mexico, as some are reporting, but we do know that he likes one element of the country's culture. We asked Pascual, who is now at the Brookings Institution, about the reports, but he wouldn't bite, following the normal protocol not to comment on jobs not officially offered. "I'd rather not have any comments on anything related to Mexico," he said. "There's just too much speculation. Anything I say that touches even on the word Mexico just leads to speculation." So we took another angle, asking the well-regarded diplomat what he thought of Mexico's luscious margaritas. "The margarita is a great drink," he gushed, "and a great contribution to international culinary experience."

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It's clear to me that President Obama is not willing to have a loose cannon sout of the US border and he needs a lot of good intelligence management. From this stand point looks like a good choice for US in terms of security to have Pascual as an embassador in Mexico.

Now, in terms of taking into consideration that half of Mexico's population is extremly poor, that education in Mexico is considered very low, which is part of the heart of crime iniciations, what President Obama should consider is an embassador that helps Mexico to grow de buying power, which is important for the US as well. i'm not saying that Mr. Pascual is not capable of doing this and should also focus on it.

Security is an issue now days for most of the world. Like if it was provoqued..., to grow the arms trading industry. Mexico's President Calderon is really being brave decalring war to the Mexican drug lords and the federal police and army ae doing a great job on it, but if the US doesn't stops fire arms smuggling into Mexico, Mexico's effort will worthless.

Being and embassador in Mexico is not an easy job, so I wish Mr. Pascual has the talent to balance both countries needs in a very low profile way and make things happen, which will be the ones that speak from them selves.

Chucho Cordoba of TX 5:52PM June 04, 2009

Correction Hassan: The Cuban exile community is typically staunchly anti-communist. Pascual is not from Florida. While the Castro government has allowed for Cuba to become a link in the drug traffiking network, most drugs still come from (or through) Mexico.

Mexico's government and army are plagued with severe corruption. President Calderon has taken very important steps to curtail and clean-up. I have not seen the military type weapons traced to a dealer in the US; these are probably being provided by corrupt individuals in the Mexican armed forces. To control this with stricter gun control laws in the US is useless - unless we want to stop supplying the Mexican army as well, which is counterproductive. We should help Calderon stop corruption in Mexico.It's not our problem - but we can help.

JI Jimenez of FL 11:18AM April 21, 2009

he is obviously a communist from a crooked corrupt state like Florida where communist, terrorists and narco traffickers coexist. Most of illegal drugs come from Cuba not Mexico!

Hassan of DC 11:44PM April 20, 2009

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