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Mexico's Fox Cancels Texas Trip
BBC ^ | 8-15-2002

Posted on 08/15/2002 6:41:03 AM PDT by blam

Thursday, 15 August, 2002, 03:05 GMT 04:05 UK

Mexico's Fox cancels Texas trip

The case drew widespread appeals for clemency

Mexican President Vicente Fox has cancelled a forthcoming trip to Texas and a meeting with US President George W Bush in protest at the state's execution of a Mexican national. "This decision is an unequivocal sign of our rejection of the execution," a spokesman for Mr Fox said.>p>

Suarez was 19 when he killed the undercover police officer

Javier Suarez Medina, 33, died by lethal injection on Wednesday, after spending 13 years on death row for the murder of a Dallas police officer.

Mr Fox had made a personal appeal for his life to be spared, as did several other leaders.

He had been due to visit four Texas cities and Mr Bush's ranch from 26-28 August.

Suarez was convicted in 1989 for the killing of a police officer who was working undercover in Dallas as a drug trafficker.

Suarez, who was 19 at the time of the crime, admitted to the murder - but said he did not know the victim was a police officer.

Intervention

The Mexican authorities had argued Suarez's rights were violated because police failed to tell him he was entitled to legal assistance from the Mexican consulate.

It would be inappropriate, in these lamentable circumstances, to go ahead with the visit

Mexican statement

"The Mexican Government was prevented from providing priority assistance that might have influenced the outcome of his trial," President Fox said in a letter to Texas Governor Rick Perry on Monday.

On Wednesday Mr Fox spoke by telephone with President Bush, in a last-ditch attempt to secure a stay of execution.

Suarez was born in Mexico, but has lived in Texas since the age of three. Mexico said that under the Vienna Convention, the US authorities were required to put him in contact with Mexican officials.

Dallas police have said they did not know he was Mexican.

Finding religion

Mexico and 13 Latin American and European nations supported an unsuccessful appeal to the US Supreme Court.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson also sent a letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell calling for clemency.

She said there were "serious concerns that the trial proceedings in the case had not complied with international human rights standards."

Suarez became religious in prison, and recently told reporters he preferred to die than continue to live in the intense isolation of death row


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KEYWORDS: cancels; fox; mexicos; texas; trip
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'Don't Mess With Texas'
1 posted on 08/15/2002 6:41:04 AM PDT by blam
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Suarez was born in Mexico, but has lived in Texas since the age of three. Mexico said that under the Vienna Convention, the US authorities were required to put him in contact with Mexican officials. Dallas police have said they did not know he was Mexican.

Suarez may have been Mexican by birth, but he lived in te US nearly his whole life. He may not have ever become an American citizen formally, but he was certainly part of that larger group recognized by the Constitution as "The People".

As such, he got the protection of the Constitution and received the same sentence that any red-blooded American convicted cop-killer gets in Texas.

Fox wants open borders between the US and Mexico. He picked the wrong cause on this one...

2 posted on 08/15/2002 6:51:39 AM PDT by Kenton
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To: blam
*Gasp!*

Next thing you know, Fox will be pulling Mexican foreign aid for the United States!

3 posted on 08/15/2002 6:58:05 AM PDT by Illbay
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To: Kenton
"Fox wants open borders between the US and Mexico."

So does the GWB administration.

4 posted on 08/15/2002 7:00:17 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam
Was he an illegal alien or did he have a green card? Since he was here before the 1986 "Amnisty" does that not mean that he could not have been deported anyway? Where has Fox and the mexican authorities been since he was incarcirated in 1989? As long as we were keeping him fed and housed, was he not considered worth their concern then?
5 posted on 08/15/2002 7:09:06 AM PDT by maximus@Nashville
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To: blam
Dallas police have said they did not know he was Mexican.

Did he vote here? Did he have a Texas drivers license? I would bet he had presented himself most of his life as a U.S. citizen.

Given the choice between our death penelty or "life" in a Mexican prison, I know which I would choose.

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Flyer

6 posted on 08/15/2002 7:13:11 AM PDT by Flyer
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"Mexican President Vicente Fox has cancelled a forthcoming trip to Texas "

Well that is one less we have to worry about teaching english! A few million to go.

7 posted on 08/15/2002 7:15:10 AM PDT by Wurlitzer
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To: blam
Now if only Fox would get really mad and cancel the rest of his country from coming!!!
8 posted on 08/15/2002 7:18:38 AM PDT by LADY J
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To: blam
I guess Vincente will have to cross the boarder illegally like the rest of Mexico.
9 posted on 08/15/2002 7:26:23 AM PDT by Puppage
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"Dallas police have said they did not know he was Mexican"

With a name like Javier Suarez Medina I suppose it was an easy mistake to make. < /sarcasm >

10 posted on 08/15/2002 7:29:56 AM PDT by sweetliberty
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"Now if only Fox would get really mad and cancel the rest of his country from coming!!! "

And recall the ones already here. Fox keeps telling us that his illegal aliens Mexican workers are a benefit to America.

11 posted on 08/15/2002 7:36:50 AM PDT by sweetliberty
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To: blam
"This decision is an unequivocal sign of our rejection of the execution,"

Mexico has a cop killer in custody and will not extradite due to our death penalty.

Let's start closing consulates and increasing immigration sweeps. On the day that was reserved for Fox's visit the President should have Congressmen Tancredo and McInnis and the American Patrol over for lunch.

12 posted on 08/15/2002 7:42:21 AM PDT by Mike Darancette
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Dear el Presidente Fox,

If Mexico is opposed to the death penalty, then Mexicans had better be much more firmly opposed to Fascist Islamicism.

These new converts in Mexico may be currently led to believe in a loving Allah, but the odds these days are that the intentions of the Islamic clerics from southern Spain, are not inclined toward Mexicans' more peaceful interests:

Islam takes root in Mexico, Palm Beach Post, August 11, 2002, by Susan Ferriss (posted August 13th by USA21).

In particular, Islamic Mexico will have the death penalty; and it will be performed on a routine, weekly basis.

Not to mention the oncoming terrorist attacks.

13 posted on 08/15/2002 7:43:22 AM PDT by First_Salute
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"Fox keeps telling us that his
illegal aliens Mexican workers are a benefit to America."


We'll have to send him mail and tell him not to be so nice to us!!!!
14 posted on 08/15/2002 8:06:29 AM PDT by LADY J
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To: LADY J
I love the way you think!!!

g from Arizona

15 posted on 08/15/2002 8:13:34 AM PDT by Geezerette
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To: blam
Rest in peace you piece of sh*t.
16 posted on 08/15/2002 8:16:39 AM PDT by hoosierboy
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To: blam
I was very surprised to see Fox cancel the visit to Texas. I believed he was bluffing and going through the motions for domestic political reasons.

This murderer had no real ties to Mexico. He apparently slipped over the border with his parents when he was three years old, so he has no memories of Mexico at all.

The legal objection raised by Mexico had very little substance in terms of whether it would have prevented him receiving the death sentence. Texas has executed numerous Mexican nationals. He's hardly the first.

So, I don't understand why Fox is making a big deal out of this. I would think that he values the relationship with America more than the life of this loser.

I don't get it.

17 posted on 08/15/2002 8:21:12 AM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: blam
If the United States tomorrow closed our border with Mexico. I mean locked down tight, no mex in and started deporting all illegal mexs back.

Question: How long would it take for a revolution to start in Mexico?

18 posted on 08/15/2002 8:23:11 AM PDT by AxelPaulsenJr
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To: Dog Gone
"I was very surprised to see Fox cancel the visit to Texas. I believed he was bluffing and going through the motions for domestic political reasons."

Fox just did the Mexican equiv. of Al Jazeera - public bluster for domestic consumption with negligible effect on foreign relations. I have no doubt that he personally called Dubya and told him, "Amigo, I got to do a little PR work on this one here - I'll come see you LATER, OK?"

Considering that the LAST trip he had planned got aborted by having his travel funds kayoed, this is a sop for locals and nothing more.

Michael

19 posted on 08/15/2002 8:31:04 AM PDT by Wright is right!
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To: blam
Yes ... And...the decision to excute this fella was an unequivocal sign of rejection by Texans against murdering police officers whether this fella knew he was an officer or not!
20 posted on 08/15/2002 9:14:53 AM PDT by cubreporter
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