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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: calgal who wrote (25075)	3/28/2002 12:53:49 AM
From: calgal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

Mexico's Foreign Minister Pressured Castro to Leave Summit, Says Cuba (CNSNews.com) - The early and sudden departure of Cuba's Fidel Castro from last week's United Nations poverty summit in Monterrey, Mexico was all Mexico's fault, according to the Cuban government. It alleges, in a newspaper editorial that Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castaneda was the "diabolical and cynical architect" of a plan to force Castro to leave. The editorial, published in the Communist-controlled newspaper Granma, is a much more pointed telling of events than the one Castro issued last week. After finishing his speech Thursday, Castro excused himself from the summit and went home, claiming he was being forced to do so because of an unspecified "special situation" created by his attendance. "I ask for your indulgence since I will not be able to accompany you any longer," Castro said at the time. "A special situation created by my participation in this summit obligates me to immediately return to my country." Castro did not elaborate, although President Bush had just arrived in Monterrey when Castro decided to leave. And before leaving for the summit, Bush had told reporters at the White House that he did not want to cross paths with Castro. The president called Cuba a "reprehensible country." The banner headline accompanying the Granma newspaper editorial reads, "The man guilty for what happened in Monterrey is called Jorge Castaneda." It states that the Mexican foreign minister "humiliated" Cuba in Monterrey, accuses Castaneda of using his "arrogance and shadowy influence," to force Castro's departure, and adds that Castaneda then "blatantly lied" about events. "We ask for nothing more than an end to the provocations, insults, lies and macabre plans of Mr. Castaneda against Cuba. Otherwise, there remains no other alternative than to divulge that which we have not wanted to divulge, making dust of his false and cynical pronouncements," the editorial stated. "Cuba has irrefutable proof of all that occurred," the editorial asserted. Some Mexican politicians, according to wire service reports from Mexico City, have accused Castaneda of turning his back on Mexico's foreign policy in order to placate President Bush and have vowed to ask Castaneda to appear before the Mexican Congress to explain his actions. During a joint news conference with President Bush on Sunday, Fox denied that his government had pressured Castro to leave. Bush also denied he had anything to do with Castro's early departure. "I know of no pressure placed on anybody. Fidel Castro can do what he wants to do. And what I'm uncomfortable about is the way he treats his people. There is only one country that is not a democracy in our hemisphere and that's Cuba," said Bush. townhall.com