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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | September 2007 
Chaderton says Venezuela Acknowledges Calderón as Mexican President
 Diario El Universal
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| | Venezuelan Ambassador to Mexico Roy Chaderton |
Venezuelan Ambassador to Mexico Roy Chaderton Tuesday said President Hugo Chávez regards Felipe Calderón as "the President of Mexico," adding that recent impasses have been overcome, Efe reported.
Chávez - who did not officially acknowledge the legitimacy of Calderón following the presidential vote on July 2, 2006, which the conservative politician won for a meager difference of 0.56 percentage points over leftwing candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador - has received "friendly, understanding, and respectful" signals from Calderón's government, said Chaderton.
In an interview with television network Televisa, the Venezuelan diplomat and former Minister of Foreign Affairs stressed that last week he presented his credentials to "the constitutional President of the United States of Mexico."
In other remarks, published Tuesday by daily newspaper La Jornada, Chaderton claimed that "there are hostile and aggressive people" who opposed to the Calderón-Chávez rapprochement, but said "we have to deal with that."
In November 2005, Mexico expelled Venezuelan Ambassador Vladimir Villegas, and both countries reduced their relations to chargés d'affairs until this month, when Chaderton arrived in Mexico. |
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