The UK envoy to Mexico supposedly left his post recently after he pointed a weapon at a nearby individual from consulate staff. A video posted via online entertainment, initially detailed by the Monetary Times, implies to show Jon Benjamin pointing a rifle at one more man while peering down the weapon's sights. It was subtitled: "In [the] setting of day to day killings in Mexico by street pharmacists, he really considers kidding." Mr Benjamin hasn't remarked such a long ways on what seems to have been a severely lost joke.
No authority declaration about Mr Benjamin's position has been made by the UK Unfamiliar, District and Advancement Office (FCDO). Yet, he is not generally recorded as representative to Mexico on the public authority's true site, which says he was in post "somewhere in the range of 2021 and 2024". In the video, a man looking like Mr Benjamin should be visible moving a weapon around the vehicle, pointing it at various individuals. Chuckling can be heard behind the scenes. One man is seen signaling awkwardly as the weapon is focused on him.
Mr Benjamin showed up in Mexico from past postings incorporating Ghana and Chile with a standing as very capricious by the principles of most UK representatives. He was extremely dynamic via virtual entertainment with an enormous following on X. He could be very blunt, at times straightforwardly noting devotees on issues he was energetic about - especially African governmental issues, football and exciting music. It was important for a more receptive, less stodgy persona than that conveyed by different ministers.
In Mexico, as in the greater part of his past postings, Mr Benjamin was a firm devotee to the job of the delicate force of English stone and non mainstream music. An ardent music fan himself, he empowered significant UK groups and craftsmen to visit Mexico, once in a while facilitating them in his home in front of their shows. For quite a long time, for instance, he was the Drifters' central resource inside the FCDO, helping the supergroup to arrange the tangled desk work of performing live occasions all over the planet.
He generally seemed entranced and very much participated in Mexico from the very outset of his posting in 2021, venturing out to a large number of its 32 states. It was on one of those excursions, to the medication cartel controlled territories of Sinaloa and Durango, that the episode with his staff occurred. North of 30,000 individuals were killed in Mexico last year. The nation has very prohibitive weapon regulations, and is home to just a single firearm shop, housed in a Mexico City military complex.
That the representative supposedly brandished a weapon at his group in the midst of such countless yearly killings from drug-related brutality in Mexico has struck significantly all the more a nerve among the consulate staff impacted - and numerous Mexicans. Regardless of whether planned as a joke, that it occurred with an obviously stacked automatic rifle in one of the most hazardous districts of Mexico was a serious error. What should be a normal outing to northern Mexico has apparently carried a dishonorable finish to an extremely lengthy and generally recognized vocation in the FCDO. A FCDO representative said: "We know about this occurrence and have made a proper move.