Mexico City, Mexico (AHN) – U.S. ambassador to Mexico Carlos Pascual has resigned after Mexican President Felipe Calderon repeatedly expressed his displeasure over the American’s comment against the local police as leaked on the WikiLeaks website in December.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accepted the resignation submitted on Saturday to preserve bilateral relations and to keep the issue between Pascual and Calderon from getting worse.

Calderon’s continued criticism of Pascual through the media started when he learned last year that the ambassador described in a diplomatic cable the Mexican police as ineffective and reluctant for refusing to act on U.S. intelligence reports against a drug cartel leader. The cable was released on the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks.

Mexico’s government is struggling to fight well-armed drug traffickers, who themselves are fighting each other for dominance of the illegal drug trade.

Pascual will return to Washington and take a position at the State Department. Meanwhile, the department has yet to name his replacement.

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