Cuba and Mexico

[Latin American Socialist]

I have heard Cuba has cut all ties with Mexico, now i hear that Cuba has a friendship with mexico again? can someone please straighten me out.

[Colombia]

I find it highly unlikely that Cuba would cut off ties with oneof the view friendly countries in Latin America.Mexico is one of few who still do not listen to America's demands of using an embargo against Cuba.

[bluerev002]

There were talks about Mexico breaking ties with Cuba, but it became old news and so they stopped covering it.

Not sure whats going to happen though.

[FatFreeMilk]

Lookit what I found. (http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0408/S00017.htm)


After a protracted fracas that included salvos of barbed language loosed by each side, the shattered bilateral relations between Mexico and Cuba may yet be repaired, as both countries reinstated their ambassadors on July 26. The exchange of insults and accusations over Mexico’s alleged pandering to the United States and Cuba’s poor human rights record was in danger of becoming a lasting rift. The debate reached a fevered pitch when Castro announced in a May 1 speech that Mexico’s influence in the world had “turned into ashes.” Mexican president Vicente Fox responded by expelling Cuba’s ambassador, claiming that Havana was meddling in Mexico’s domestic affairs. Relations with Cuba are a sensitive subject; Mexico’s opposition groups often use them as a measure of the country’s independence from U.S. manipulation. The two countries are now attempting to patch up their bruised relationship and deal with the climate of distrust that has developed between them. Meanwhile, the majority of Mexico’s media maintain that it is in the country’s self-interest to protect its old image of being firmly in Latin America’s camp and not in Washington’s pocket when it comes to regional policies. They seek to win back the country’s former reputation, lost at the Monterrey trade conference, as being one of Latin America’s principle interlocutors in dealing with the U.S.