The Foreign Minister of Uruguay, Francisco Bustillo, presented his resignation from office this Wednesday, hours after it became known that he wanted to pressure an undersecretary of that portfolio to hide information from Justice about the granting of a passport to drug trafficker Sebastián Marset. The news of the resignation was revealed by Telenoche and confirmed by the newspapers El País and La Diaria, which detailed that Bustillo discussed the decision with President Luis Lacalle Pou, who was in the United States this Wednesday. A while later, the resignation was made official on the official Public Media account on the X network and the letter with which Bustillo resigned was revealed. "I wish to state that there was nothing illegal in the processing of the passport processed for Mr. Marset, in which case I did not have any participation or knowledge," stated the brand new former minister in that text. "Of course, I did not lie or deviate from the truth in the parliamentary questioning," he assured, and pointed out to the then vice-chancellor: "Dr. Ache decontextualized conversations and acted in bad faith." Bustillo stressed that "things are not as they have been shown, but they are sensitive enough to have presented the immediate resignation to the President." The former Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs Carolina Ache handed over to the Prosecutor's Office this Wednesday some chats that she exchanged with the Chancellor until today, in which he suggested that she “lose” her cell phone to avoid giving Justice conversations related to the delivery of the Uruguayan passport to the drug trafficker Marset. After this information became public, the Frente Amplio (FA) had demanded the resignation of Bustillo and an explanation from Lacalle Pou.