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US Ambassador to Mexico & US Ambassador to Panama both resigning — within months of each other.

Ambassador Roberta Jacobson notes to US embassy personnel: "You know how great our two countries are. And that we are stronger together." pic.twitter.com/wakpysYW0G

— Kylie Atwood (@kylieatwood) March 1, 2018

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— Roberta Jacobson (@EmbRoberta) March 1, 2018

EXCLUSIVE: Trump plans to nominate Ed Whitacre (former AT&T, GM CEO) as new US Ambassador to Mexico, sources tell me. In 1990, Whitacre was key biz partner to billionaire Carlos Slim in his historic bid for Telmex. He would replace career diplomat Roberta Jacobson via @Reforma pic.twitter.com/Ot5elmS0EB

— José Díaz-Briseño (@diazbriseno) March 1, 2018

Grateful for all @EmbRoberta has contributed to the @StateDept – thirty-plus years of public service and respected on both sides of the aisle and across our hemisphere. https://t.co/RILvm2oxxw

— John Kerry (@JohnKerry) March 1, 2018

I wish @EmbRoberta, a long-time friend and colleague, the very best. We @statedept greatly appreciate her 31 years of exemplary government service, including as U.S. Ambassador to #Mexico and as Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs.

— Francisco Palmieri (@WHAAsstSecty) March 1, 2018

Mexico will sorely miss @EmbRoberta at @USEmbassyMEX; a dear friend, and a truly extraordinary US Ambassador to #Mexico at a truly trying moment of the US-Mexico relationship.

— Arturo Sarukhan (@Arturo_Sarukhan) March 1, 2018

Roberta Jacobson is the latest senior Foreign Service pro to resign: U.S. ambassador to Mexico is stepping down, to be replaced by a former CEO of GM and AT&T https://t.co/9mx28zAqv9

— Anne Rumsey Gearan (@agearan) March 1, 2018

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