MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican Attorney General Gertz Manero, a veteran politician who has faced accusations that he used his position for personal and political gain, resigned on Thursday to become an ambassador.

In a Senate session, presiding officers read a letter by Gertz Manero requesting that his resignation be accepted after President Claudia Sheinbaum nominated him as “Mexico’s ambassador to a friendly country,” without name the country.

The 86-year-old, who preferred to stay out of the spotlight, had held public security positions since the 1970s and been Mexico’s attorney general for the almost seven years.

In January 2019, he became the country’s first attorney general who was supposed to be completely independent of political power. But his time in the post was marked by his clo

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