Cuba Asks Mexico for Convincing Explanations

Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque called upon the Mexican government
to reveal the reasons for the present diplomatic situation between both nations,
which he said does not satisfy the Cuban people. Before both national and
foreign media, Perez Roque described as "unexpected and lacking any
logic" last Sunday's reaction when Mexican authorities expelled Cuban
ambassador in that country, Jorge Bolanos. The Cuban official accused the
administration of President Vicente Fox of pretending to divert the attention of
Mexican public opinion from the serious facts surrounding the case of
businessman Carlos Ahumada and domestic suspicions of a conspiracy in that
nation. In spite of that, Perez Roque considered positive the diplomatic note
sent on Tuesday by Mexican Foreign Secretary, Luis Ernesto Derbez and expressed
that the spirit contained in that document should have preceded the hasty
decision (taken by the Mexican government) and all this situation would have
been prevented.