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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | February 2007 
Mexico Aims to Improve Ties with Cuba
 Associated Press
President Felipe Calderon's administration has held discussions with Cuba on improving relations after a series of diplomatic spats in recent years, Mexico's foreign secretary said.
"Mexico has a border with the Caribbean and it is a top priority to relaunch dialogue and political understanding," Patricia Espinosa said in a speech before the Senate on Tuesday. "With Cuba, we have had diplomatic contacts with the aim of promoting a rapprochement."
Espinosa also said that the government will work with diverse sectors of U.S. society to fight a planned 700 miles of fencing to be built along on the U.S.-Mexico border. Calderon, a conservative who took office in December, has opposed the proposed border fence.
Mexico has historically been friendly with communist-run Cuba, and is the only Latin American country that has never broken ties with Fidel Castro's government — despite U.S. pressure to do so.
But relations with Havana soured in 2002 when then-President Vicente Fox's government supported a U.N. Human Rights Commission resolution condemning Cuba. Later that year, Fox was embarrassed when Cuba released a recording of the Mexican leader urging Castro to leave a summit to avoid a confrontation with President Bush.
In 2004, the two nations temporarily withdrew their ambassadors after Mexico accused Havana of meddling in its internal affairs and alleged that members of Cuba's Communist Party were holding unauthorized political meetings in Mexico. |
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