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  • Cuba Insists Bush Behind Hasty Castro Summit Exit

    03/23/2002 2:00:17 AM PST · by Cincinatus' Wife · 33 replies · 406+ views
    yahoo.com ^ | March 23, 2002 | Kieran Murray
    MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - Cuba accused President Bush on Friday of threatening to boycott this week's U.N. aid summit in Mexico unless Cuban President Fidel Castro was made to leave, but Bush insisted he didn't pressure anybody. Castro abandoned the summit meeting in Mexico's northern city of Monterrey on Thursday, shortly before Bush arrived, and a senior Cuban official said the communist leader was asked by Mexican officials to make himself scarce. "We received very senior people from the Mexican government before the conference who indicated they had been subjected to U.S. government pressure, specifically threats from President Bush that...