The Washington Post, 3/3/2011
Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Thursday that the release of State Department cables criticizing Mexico’s anti-drug fighthad caused “severe damage” to its relationship with the United States and suggested that tensions had risen so dramatically that he could no longer work with the American ambassador in his country.
Calderon’s comments were the strongest to date on the secret cables distributed by WikiLeaks, which have threatened to disrupt what both sides have hailed as increasingly close cooperation against Mexico’s violent drug gangs.
The Mexican president, at the start of a one-day visit to Washington, suggested that the release of the cables had caused turmoil on his national security team. He took aim at one U.S. cable that said that Mexican military officials had “risk-averse habits.”
Mexico Institute 