Ken Salazar will step down as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico on January 7, 13 days before Donald Trump takes office.
Ken Salazar’s message comes one day after Donald Trump announced that Ron Johnson, a colonel with a long history leading military operations in countries such as El Salvador, Afghanistan and Iraq, will be the new U.S. Ambassador to Mexico.
In his last leg in Mexico, U.S. Ambassador Ken Salazar opted for direct confrontation with former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who two years ago defended him from the criticism he received from the U.S. press that questioned his closeness to the Mexican government.
That changed in recent months, in the final stretch of López Obrador’s government when he said that the Judicial Reform threatened democracy, a position that led the then Mexican President to freeze the relationship between the two.
Kenneth Lee Salazar is a politician with a long career in his country. He is a fifth-generation Colorado resident and a twelfth-generation American. His family settled in New Mexico 400 years ago, before the United States was a country, and moved to Colorado’s San Luis Valley in the mid-19th century, claiming some of the region’s first water rights.
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