U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar made headlines on Wednesday after labeling Mexico's security policy "a failure" amid escalating cartel wars. He added that the Latin American nation has "closed the doors" on security cooperation with the U.S. and that former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) rejected U.S. aid in equipping Mexican police "for ideological problems":
"Unfortunately this coordination has failed in the last year, in great part because the previous president did not want to receive help from the United States," said Salazar. His comments quickly catalyzed a response from Mexico's Foreign Relations Ministry through a diplomatic note, which expressed "surprise."
