AMLO freezes ties with US ambassador Ken Salazar who criticized reforms

Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador said his relationship with the US ambassador Ken Salazar is “on pause” after criticism of his planned judicial reform, although he will not ask the official to leave the country.

Salazar warned last week that Lopez Obrador’s efforts to push through a reform plan requiring popular elections for federal judges poses a “great risk” to Mexico’s democracy and makes it easier for drug cartels to infiltrate the judiciary.