Fidel Castro faces rocky relations with Mexico, break in diplomatic ties with Uruguay ***"President Fox has a lot of things to do. He cannot spend four hours everyday talking, as Castro does," Foreign Secretary Jorge Castaneda told the radio news program Monitor in an acid reference to the Cuban leader's volubility. "Fortunately for Mexico, we have elections here. We have alternating power here and Mexicans here, I believe, do not want a president who remains in power for 43 years. We have already had that - he was named Porfirio Diaz - and because of that we kicked him out."
Interior Secretary Santiago Creel referred to Castro as a "dictator" whose "word is no good.... who has no dignity" in an interview with TV Azteca.***
Castro Bugs Fox Because Fox Is Bugging Castro***Now that the air has been cleared, the Fox government is free to join more aggressively in the growing Latin outcry against the Cuban regime's human rights violations. It may even take the lead. With Mr. Fox's foreign minister Jorge Castañeda, a reformed Marxist, taking a special interest in human rights in Cuba, Castro's world image could take a real beating.***