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Mr. Bloomberg also assailed Mr. Kennedy for discouraging measles vaccination during an outbreak in the island nation of Samoa, where 83 people died.

But the relationship cooled in the final months of his presidency as the ambassador assailed plans to overhaul the judiciary that critics saw as a ruling-party power play.

Using the imagery of crusades, he assailed “the late unholy war with the Indians” and the “wicked crusade against the peace of Mexico” during the 1830s.

For months, Jurado has assailed De León over his participation in a conversation with three other Latino political leaders that featured crude and racist remarks.

De León has assailed that stance, saying it would leave neighborhoods from downtown to Boyle Heights vulnerable to violent crime.