Claim: Mexico ambassador resigns after book theft allegation.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: Ten Tragic Days
text: resign. President Madero replied to the Spanish Minister that he did not recognize the right of diplomatists accredited to a nation to interfere in its domestic affairs; he called attention to the fact, which he feared some of the diplomatists had somehow overlooked, that he was the constitutional President of Mexico, and declared that his resignation would plunge the country into political chaos. He added that he might be killed, but he would not resign. Later that same day, Ambassador Wilson went to the Palace, accompanied by the German Minister. Their objective, he says, was "to confer with Gen. Huerta."

title: Mexican presidential expenses controversy
text: investigations found that business addresses listed on expenses reports were false, and that the telephone numbers of suppliers used by the government had been disconnected. Fox acknowledged that the expenditures were of importance to all Mexicans and promised that those found responsible would be fired. He accepted the resignation of Carlos Rojas, the head of the presidential acquisitions committee and a longtime friend of the president. Three members of Rojas' staff also resigned and three more were suspended. The president sought to turn the expenses controversy to his advantage by saying the fact that his own government had put the

title: Gustavo de Greiff
text: poll ratings, with higher approval percentages than those of the President and other public officials. After de Greiff retired as Attorney General he was given a diplomatic post as Colombia's Ambassador to the United States of Mexico. Some of the challenges he faced during his time as ambassador included allegations of corruption and bribe taking, the cancellation of his United States travel visa, protesters who wanted him declared persona non grata in Mexico, and assisting with Ernesto Samper's presidential visit to Mexico. De Greiff was one of the few Colombian ambassadors who did not resign following the political scandal that

title: Jorge Bolaños
text: of the Cuban Foreign Ministry. During his stay in Mexico, he is known to have had close links with Venezuelan Diplomat Livia Antonieta Acosta-Noguera; a lady who was later transferred to Peru and afterwards to Miami, to serve as Consul, and in December 2011 she appeared conspiring against the U.S. in a documentary made by the Spanish language TV Network UNIVISION called "The Iranian Threat". In January 29, 2012, one of the students from the University of Mexico UNAM publicly stated that Ambassador Bolanos was conspiring with Livia Acosta against the U.S., and Ambassador Bolanos continues to enjoy diplomatic immunity

title: Alejandro Estivill
text: of Mexico in Montreal, Canada, 2016. On June 1, 2012, President Felipe Calderón appointed him Ambassador of Mexico (a rank he will hold for life, as a career member of Mexico's Foreign Service). https://web.archive.org/web/20110615062721/http://www2.eluniversal.com.mx/pls/impreso/noticia.html?id_nota=43246&tabla=cultura https://web.archive.org/web/20100104194324/http://ficticia.com/autores/alejestivillsem.html http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2008/02/10/index.php?section=cultura&article=a04n1cul Alejandro Estivill Alejandro Ives Estivill Castro is a Mexican Diplomat and novelist. He specializes in Mexican literature of the 20th Century. He holds a BA in Hispanic Literature from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a PhD. in Literature from El Colegio de México. He participated in the workshop that would originate the "Crack Movement" in 1999, and with authors Jorge Volpi,

title: Carlos Pascual (diplomat)
text: Barack Obama as ambassador to Mexico, he was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 7, 2009. He presented his credentials to the Mexican government on August 9, 2009 and personally to President Felipe Calderón on October 21, 2009. Pascual submitted his resignation as Ambassador to Mexico on March 19, 2011 in part due to tensions with Calderón. Tensions with President Calderón arose as a result of the WikiLeaks release of diplomatic cables in which Pascual criticized the Mexican military's ability or willingness to fight the Mexican drug cartels. Pascual is considered to be the first casualty of the

title: Jaliya Wickramasuriya
text: States and Mexico. During his tenure, he was investigated by the IRS on tax evasion and the US government requested the government of Sri Lanka recall Wickramasuirya. As a result, Wickramasuirya was recalled to Sri Lanka in July 2014 and was replaced by Asela Weerakoon on a temporarily basis until Prasad Kariyawasam was appointed as the permanent ambassador. The Police Financial Crimes Investigations Division (FCID) arrested him on 17 November 2016 after he tried to flee the country from Katunayake Airport, and was a suspect of allegedly accepting a USD $332,000 commission while serving as the Sri Lankan Ambassador to

title: Ten Tragic Days
text: Wilson told Pedro Lascuráin, Madero's minister of foreign relations, that Madero ought to resign; as reported to Sec. Knox. Ambassador Wilson's language became: "Public opinion, both Mexican and foreign, holds the Federal Government responsible for these conditions." On February 15, Ambassador Wilson requested the British, German and Spanish ministers to come to the embassy. He did not invite the other members of the diplomatic corps. He reports to Secretary Knox: "The opinion of my assembled colleagues was unanimous." The Spanish minister was designated to visit the National Palace and inform the President of this unanimous opinion—which was, that he should

title: Aurora Bretón
text: eat at the hotel while she sexually harassed his daughter. A year later, on October 2005, Bretón was caught by immigration authorities of the United States while trying to secure travel visas for two deli vendors and a friend of her own daughter by presenting them as official coaches of the Mexican archery team. The United States Embassy in Mexico City intervened and she was charged with visa fraud and banned from visiting the country for ninety-nine years. Following the incident, she was asked to resign from all executive posts in both the federation and the Mexican Sports Confederation (Codeme).

title: Diplomatic immunity
text: On 24 April 2008, in New Orleans, Mexican press attaché Rafael Quintero Curiel was seen stealing BlackBerry PDA units from a White House press meeting room. Quintero made it all the way to the airport before members of the United States Secret Service caught up with him. He initially denied taking the devices, but after being confronted with security video, Quintero claimed it was purely accidental, gave the devices back, claimed diplomatic immunity and left New Orleans with the Mexican delegation. He was eventually fired for the incident. The following chart outlines the immunities afforded to foreign diplomatic personnel residing

title: Santiago Oñate Laborde
text: and, in 1993, as the head of the Environmental Attorney's Office ("Procuraduría Federal de Protección al Medio Ambiente" or PROFEPA). In 1995 he was designated President of the PRI. He served for President Carlos Salinas as the head of the Presidency's Office ("Oficina de la Presidencia"). President Ernesto Zedillo appointed him as Secretary of Labor. In 1997, Oñate Laborde became Ambassador of Mexico to the United Kingdom, position he would hold until 2001, year when he became Ambassador of Mexico to the Netherlands. While serving as ambassador in the Netherlands, he also acted as the Permanent Representative of Mexico to

title: Bureau of Diplomatic Security
text: Investigations and National Police. Tomas was assigned to the U.S. embassy in Seoul as a Customs and Border Protection Officer. On January 12, 2011, Special agents from the U.S. Department of State's Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) have located and helped return California fugitive John Pope from Mexico. Pope, formerly of San Francisco, was taken into custody by Mexican authorities in La Paz, Mexico on January 12 and returned to the United States on January 18, 2011 to face trial. John Pope has been wanted by the San Francisco District Attorney's Office since October 20, 1998, in connection with allegations of

title: Diplomatic Security Service
text: Tomas was assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Seoul as a Customs and Border Protection Officer. On January 12, 2011, DSS agents located and helped return California fugitive John Pope from Mexico. Pope, formerly of San Francisco, was taken into custody by Mexican authorities in La Paz, Mexico on January 12 and returned to the United States on January 18, 2011 to face trial. Pope had been wanted by the San Francisco District Attorney's Office since October 20, 1998, in connection with allegations of fraud concerning embezzlement of $1,000,000 from the estate of a deceased San Francisco businessman. On February

title: Arturo Sarukhán
text: left his post at the Consulate General in New York City to join Felipe Calderón's presidential campaign as international spokesperson and coordinator of foreign affairs. He was appointed Ambassador to the United States on 27 January 2007. Sarukhán is member of several organizations. He was vice-chair and then chair of the Executive Council on Diplomacy Ambassadors Advisory Board, Board member of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas; Advisory Board member of the Post Classical Ensemble; member of the Advisory Board of the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, and "ex officio" member of the Board of

title: 2005 Organization of American States Secretary General election
text: April 2005, Mexico withdrew its candidate, which allowed Chile's Insulza to be elected in the next special session as Secretary General, with 31 votes, two abstentions and one vote left blank. On 8 October 2004, the newly elected Secretary General, former president of Costa Rica Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, facing corruption allegations in his home country, announced his resignation from the OAS position, effective 15 October. Assistant Secretary General Luigi R. Einaudi (a U.S. career diplomat) assumed the office as a temporary measure. After a period of uncertainty lasting several months, it was decided that rather than wait until the regular

title: Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović
text: a day, using another embassy car, a Toyota Sienna, for private purposes. Grabar-Kitarović claimed that her duties continue for 24 hours a day and that she cannot separate her working life from her private life. She later paid for all expenses that occurred due to her husband's unauthorized using of the car, while the member of embassy's security staff who had filmed her family was fired. In 2011 Grabar-Kitarović submitted her resignation as ambassador and on 4 June 2011 became Assistant Secretary General of NATO for Public Diplomacy. She was criticized because of the way she left her position in

title: Andrés Felipe Arias Leiva
text: Carlos Alberto Zuluaga Díaz, who publicly called for him to stay in the country to prove his innocence. Arias ultimately chose to decline the Ambassadorship. On September 2009 the Office of the Comptroller General opened an investigation against Arias and other officials into the mismanagement of funds in the Agro Ingreso Seguro case, then in December, the Office of the Inspector General opened a disciplinary hearing into irregularities related to the same case against 16 officials, including Arias and the then-Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Andrés Fernández Acosta, who has also served as Deputy Minister when Arias was then

title: John Negroponte
text: he was instrumental in persuading the Bush administration to respond to a Mexican initiative by negotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement despite initial opposition by the U.S. Office of Trade Representative. His tenure in Mexico was thus the most consequential of any modern American ambassadorship. It was observed twenty years later that "Every so often, there comes to light a document revealing the foresight of a public servant who grasped the full consequences and implications of a particular government measure or policy. Such a document was written in the spring of 1991 by the then U.S.Ambassador to Mexico, John

title: Carlos Moreno de Caro
text: once again stirred controversy when he announced that he was resigning from his post, because according to him he had completed “80 percent of the commitments made to the President and the country, and in a few months [I expect] to complete the remaining tasks to return to the country.” In response to the ic public criticism of his actions, the Chancellery informed Moreno that if he insisted in resigning, he would have to pay for his relocation costs and that of his staff and family, for the embassy would not pay for their return given the short time in

title: José María Montoya (diplomat)
text: "chargé" and held the post until 31 December 1833, when he was substituted by Joaquín María del Castillo y Lanzas. Montoya kept working at the embassy as trade commissioner (in ), and was substituted in that post by the ephemeral Mexican emperor, Agustín de Iturbide. José María Montoya (diplomat) Jose María Montoya was a Mexican diplomat who served twice as "ad interim" "chargé d'affaires" of Mexico to the United States of America (1828–1830 and 1831–1833). During his first stint as "chargé d'affaires", Montoya substituted Envoy Pablo Obregón, a former colonel in the Army of the Three Guarantees who committed suicide