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Mexico Leaves Castro's Cuba Behind*** 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. The comandante is lashing out against Jorge Castaneda, Mexico's minister of foreign affairs--calling him a lackey of the United States--out of sheer desperation and growing isolation.... This tempest in the Cuba-Mexico teapot will pass. Meanwhile, Mexico's foreign policy will have changed and for the better. The principle of the protection of human rights will prevail in Mexico and elsewhere. As Castaneda's father, Mexico's minister of foreign affairs 20 years ago, said: "Friend, when you defend principles instead of interests, you never lose." ***
2 posted on 04/13/2002 3:28:14 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: hchutch
Bump!
3 posted on 04/13/2002 3:55:13 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Well, that's good news! It was never clear to me how terrorist organizations got to have "offices" in the first place.
4 posted on 04/13/2002 4:12:52 AM PDT by livius
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