Over the weekend, Carlos Pascual (above) stepped down from his post as U.S. ambassador to Mexico over an unsparing January 2010 cable about Mexico's flailing drug war, and Mexican President Felipe Calderón's handling of it, that WikiLeaks published in December. The disclosure had poisoned Pascual's relationship with Calderón, and by the end his departure was all but inevitable -- even if Pascual wasn't telling Foggy Bottom anything that everyone (the Mexican president probably included) didn't know already.
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Nearly four months after WikiLeaks dropped its first State Department cables, no one can say that Julian Assange's radical transparency project hasn't left a sizable mark on global politics. But whom exactly has he brought down? It's not necessarily the people we might have expected: The Singaporean ambassador at large who called the second-biggest economic power in the neighborhood a "big fat loser" has emerged from the controversy more or less unscathed. The Lebanese defense minister who gave Israel advice on how to invade his country is still around. The U.S. diplomat who signed -- though may not have written -- the epic Dagestani wedding cable still has his high-ranking State Department job, and the one who signed off on a series of withering Silvio Berlusconi portraits in the U.S. Embassy in Rome doesn't appear to have gone anywhere, either.
So who are the losers? Foreign Policy takes a chronological look at WikiLeaks' casualties and near casualties so far, an eclectic group of unfortunates that includes political leaders, diplomats, corporate executives, and the organization's own sources.
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