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Carlos Sada,
previously the consul in Los Angeles, was named ambassador to
the United States while Paulo Carreno, one of President Enrique
Pena Nieto's communications chiefs, was appointed the deputy
foreign minister for North America.
The new ambassador must still be approved by the Senate.
"We have been warning that our citizens have begun to feel a
more hostile climate," Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu
told local radio after the announcement.
"This (anti-Mexican) rhetoric has made it clear that we have to
act in a different way so that this tendency being generated
doesn't damage the bilateral relationship," she added.
Mexican government officials have expressed concern about the
rise of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump due to
his repeated verbal attacks on Mexico, and his insistence that
Mexico should be made to pay for a border wall.
Trump on Tuesday threatened to block remittances from
undocumented Mexican migrants if elected president unless the
country pays billions for his planned wall.
Trump also called Ford's announcement that it would build more
cars in Mexico "an absolute disgrace."
(Reporting by Anahi Rama and Adriana Barrera; Editing by Sandra
Maler)
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