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.