Free Republic

(Washington, D.C.): America's preoccupation with the crises du jour - the rising terrorist menace to the liberation of Iraq, the Iranian regime's determination to acquire the means to act on its genocidal threats against Israel and the United States and, most recently, North Korea's nuclear coming-out party - has left Washington ill-prepared to deal with one of tomorrow's major security challenges: the rise of the radical anti-American left in Latin America. Losing Latin America The emergence of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez as the oil-rich heir to Fidel Castro's revolutionary ambitions has translated into a mortal threat to liberal democracy, freedom...

Mexican standoff? By Dimitri Vassilaros TRIBUNE-REVIEW Friday, July 22, 2005 The only thing more disturbing than Jorge Castaneda's testimony about illegal immigration was the lack of outrage from the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Mr. Castaneda had been the Mexican foreign minister in the current Vicente Fox administration. He now is a New York University professor and independent candidate for president of Mexico. Opponents of illegal immigration are incensed because Castaneda said the United States cannot secure its southern border without Mexico's blessing. And that it will not have Mexico's blessing until America agrees to a series of almost...

I don't know about you, but I am sick and tired of America being bullied, extorted, threatened, ridiculed and shamed. It is particularly revolting when these degrading insults come from people living, working and prospering right here in the good old USA. And it is enough to make me spit when foreigners come to this country to live and work and maintain their hostile, anti-U.S. positions – and no one calls them on it! Take, for example, former Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castaneda, who testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee earlier this week. His bellicose appearance didn't exactly make...

FAIR Press Release: Former Mexican Foreign Minister Demands Open Border for Migrants In Exchange for Cooperation on Security at Congressional Hearing Members of U.S. Congress Offer No Reaction to Blackmail On Tuesday, four days after the bombings on the London transit system refocused Congress and the American public on the threat of global terrorism, former Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castaneda told a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing that "No border security is possible without Mexican cooperation" and that "there can be no cooperation [from the Mexican government] without some sort of immigration reform package." Castaneda, now a professor at New...

MEXICO CITY - (KRT) - Mexico's former Foreign Minister Jorge Castaneda, a controversial political scientist, has announced he will run for president in 2006 as an independent candidate. Castaneda, 50, was pivotal as an adviser to Vicente Fox when the conservative National Action Party (PAN) defeated the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which had ruled Mexico since 1929. But Castaneda blasted the PAN, PRI and Mexico's other large party, the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), in a Thursday night television commercial announcing his run. "There are many of us who confront a wall built by the leaderships of the three major...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Foreign Minister Jorge Castaneda, the former Marxist responsible for cooling Mexico's relations with Cuba, is admired abroad but reviled by critics at home who say his strident personality could be his undoing. For his fans, the Princeton-educated 49-year-old is the visionary architect of a new U.S.-centered foreign policy to fit the nation's coming of age as a democracy after President Vicente Fox ended 71 years of one-party rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party. But a large band of detractors, mostly inside Mexico, see Castaneda as an aggressive opportunist who picks fights needlessly, openly despises the local...

HAVANA (Reuters) - Still smarting at a perceived snub during a U.N. summit last week, Cuba criticized Tuesday on Mexico's "diabolical" and "Machiavellian" foreign minister as the man responsible for President Fidel Castro's walkout. A blistering statement by the ruling Communist Party blamed the Mexican minister, Jorge Castaneda, for pressuring Castro to stay away from the Monterrey meeting to avoid a politically awkward crossing with President Bush. "The man guilty for what happened in Monterrey is called Jorge Castaneda," said a red-letter, front-page banner headline above the statement in the party's official newspaper Granma. Castro normally writes such statements. "Mexico's...