Critics: Fox Cancellation Hurts Ties

Associated Press ^ | Thursday, August 15, 2002 | TRACI CARL

[BossLady]

``It seems there is much giving, and we get nothing but smiles in return,'' said Mexican lawmaker Eddie Varon

I would like to personally thank this gentleman for 'giving' us so much. /sarcasm

This is Bush's cue to make some drastic changes!

[SouthernFreebird]

Keep your dang murderous nationals home and we won't have to waste our money putting your mad dogs to sleep.

[Texas_Jarhead]

Come on severed ties...

[Hugin]

``It seems there is much giving, and we get nothing but smiles in return,'' said Mexican lawmaker Eddie Varon, a member of the former ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party.

The only thing Mexico give us is millions illegal aliens and a higher crime rate. They can have them back.

[Texas_Jarhead]

"Eso as para tu mama!"

I believe it should read Eso es para tu mama.

This comment is in no way an endorsement of Joe Brower's comment

[ecomcon]

``I think the president showed great statesmanship, because he listened to the voice of the people and to the voice of Congress,'' Varon said. ``When we have U.S. congressmen coming here complaining, the first thing I'm going to do is to say, `Respect our laws.

RESPECT OUR LAWS? RESPECT OUR LAWS?

My head is gonna just totally explode. Where's the duct tape?

[NEWwoman]

When I first read the headline, I thought the TV network FOX had cancelled a popular show.

Reading further, cancelling a favorite TV show is more upsetting than el Presidente Fox cancelling his trip.

Hasta La Vista, Baby

[mad puppy]

I suppose that if Mexico started executing Americans for things like murder and dealing drugs, all the drug dealing, murderous Americans in Mexico would come back to the US. I certainly hope that the same can be said of the small percentage of drug dealing, murderous Mexicans in the US.

Mr. Fox did the right thing by staying home as it shows what side he is on. Texas did the right thing by proceding with the death sentence. Now we understand each other all the better.

[anymouse]

El Presidente Fox, don't let the boarder gate hit your backside on the way South. :)

[operation clinton cleanup]

we get nothing but smiles in return

Look closer, nobody is smiling.

We should have granted that murderer citizenship 5 minutes before the sentence was carried out,then everyone would be happy.

[MinorityRepublican]

Texas did the right thing by proceding with the death sentence. Now we understand each other all the better.

Absolutely, maybe Mexicans will understand now that if you kill people in America, you're dead period.

[sweetliberty]

"hours after Texas ignored his pleas and put a Mexican-American drug smuggler to death for killing a Dallas police officer"

I believe that he was an illegal, or at least not an American citizen, otherwise Mexico would have no reason to try and interfere.

"Some Mexican politicians have felt that Bush has increasingly abandoned this country after the Sept. 11 attacks shifted the focus of U.S. foreign policy from immigration reform to fighting terrorism."

How dare he focus on his own country.

"where critics say Fox spends too much time cozying up to the United States and too little working on domestic policy."

Fox's domestic policy and foreign policy are the same....pack off as many of his poor countrymen as possible to America where they can take over without firing a shot. Mexicans who become citizens can retain their Mexican citizenship. Talk about conflicts of interest.

[Joe Brower]

Tu es correcto. A typo.

[dennisw]

File this one under BFD. The less that CocaCola salesman Fox comes here, the better.

[Jim Scott]

The apparently cozy relationship between Presidents Fox and Bush has probably hurt both of them politically and this is Fox's way of calling off the charade.

President Bush needs to cool it with the amnesty talk; it isn't playing well at all and this snub by Fox gives the President an opportunity to back away from the love-fest with a country that gives us nothing but problems; illegals, drugs and pleas for financial aid.

Enough is enough. If President Fox needs to focus on Mexico then President Bush needs to be concentrating on America, the war and the economy.

[BossLady]

Hmmmm....interesting concept....

Agreed. Any smiling being done is through gritting teeth...

[waxhaw]

I've spent 22 years in Latin America (Peru, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, El Salvador, Honduras) and am currently in Mexico City, Mexico. In every Latin American country I've lived there has always been a long and strong tradition of what are termed "extrajudicial" killings - what this means is that the local cops eventually whack a known criminal because they weary of this criminal bribing the judges/courts and getting back into the streets (where, of course, he's a threat to those same cops who have arrested him already several times). Now in the U.S. the killings/executions are done "judicially" - by the state and by the state government; there is a trial by jury and in this day and age there are countless appeals whenever a death sentence is handed down. It is ironic, to say the least, that while extrajudicial killings are accepted in Latin America, judicial killings are not. That being said, I have gained the distinct impression from the majority of Mexicans (here in Mexico City) that they believe Texas acted correctly in executing Suarez Medina. The Mexican politicians view the U.S. as the perfect whipping boy and have seized on this event to make political hay... most Mexicans aren't buying it.