Posted on 04/11/2002 3:00:43 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:16 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Once upon a time, Mexico and Cuba were best buddies in the Western Hemisphere. Brandishing the banners of nonintervention and self-determination, both countries provided each other with unconditional support and kept quiet about their mutual lack of democratic development. Those days are over, and today relations between Cuba and Mexico are at an all-time low, for all the right reasons. Mexico's foreign policy toward Cuba is changing, and Fidel Castro is furious about it.
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I wonder why?
I wonder why?
It won't surprise me if the falkland islands erupt this week as well... China and the old commie network are really busy...
Terrorists and their supporters have been put on notice.
These people are a real plague, and along with their corrupt left-wing political allies, have effectively blocked change in Mexico for years. Fox has made a surprising amount of progress, although it may appear pretty modest to anyone outside of Mexico. Hope he keeps it up!
This, from the LA Times?
The salient point is that for the first time Mexico has a president who was selected by a really competitive election and not a pro forma Potemkin affair. A necessary--but all-too-clearly not sufficient--condition for having a rights-respecting government . . .
Excellent point.
More excellent points.
It does seem pretty modest if you live just outside of Mexico. I don't see any of his citizens returning to their country, they seem to be coming over to the US faster than ever. There are still girls being murdered in Juarez, the drug cartels are still fighting over who dominates so we see executions on a weekly basis. 10-20 years ago, it was safe to travel in Mexico and it isn't now.
Fox is trying I think but he's up against an awful lot and the people aren't very patient.
The "Falkland Islands?" LAS MALVINAS SON ARGENTINA!
Correct. When I took a bus ride from Monterrey to Zacatecas back in December of 2000, I was struck by all the abandoned villages along the highway.
The surprise operation appeared to be part of President Vicente Fox's crackdown on drug smuggling and police corruption. The federal attorney general's office did not return phone calls seeking comment.
Army and federal police raided the state police academy in Tecate, about 65 miles east of Tijuana, where officers were holding a meeting on their licenses to carry arms. The police were ordered to turn over their weapons and credentials and placed under arrest, said Governor Eugenio Elorduy of Baja California. It was unclear what charges the officers faced.
''The important thing here is that those with responsibility are committed to combatting corruption,'' Elorduy said. ''We know that we have to fight impunity because we know that it occurs within state offices.''
After they were questioned, the detainees were taken to Tijuana and loaded onto three planes to Mexico City.
Carlos Otal, the Tijuana chief, and his two bodyguards were rounded up in the sweep, said Martin Dominguez, Tijuana's public security secretary.
The arrests came a day after the UN investigator into judicial independence, Param Cumaraswamy, said corruption in the Mexican legal system ''continued unabated'' despite attempts at reform.
Fox's administration has made several major arrests in the last few months, including two stunning blows to the most feared drug gang in Mexico. Benjamin Arellano Felix was arrested March 9. His brother Ramon, who was on the FBI's 10 most-wanted list, was killed by police on Feb. 10.
A few days after Arellano Felix's detention, officials announced the arrest of Manuel Herrera Barraza, allegedly the brothers' principal smuggler of marijuana and cocaine into the western United States.
Last week outside Tecate, authorities dismantled a secret, 1,000-foot tunnel under the US-Mexico border that was believed used by the gang to ship tons of cocaine and marijuana into California for more than a decade.
Mexican police have often cooperated and even worked for drug smugglers. In September, the former police chief in Mexicali, just east of Tecate, was jailed for allegedly warning the Arellano Felix gang of police operations. [End]
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