Fox, Mouthpiece for Bush, Say Mexicans
President Vicente Fox acted as puppet for US ventriloquist President George W Bush at the Summit of the Americas, according to 75 percent of Mexicans interviewed by ¿El cristal con que se mira¿ newspaper.

In the phone survey of 3,500 people, ten percent said that Fox was out of place, a similar number believed he participated with great success, and the last five percent described the Fox summit stance as that of a misunderstood mediator.

His behavior at the Mar del Plata Summit was also slammed by legislators of the Institutional Revolutionary (PRI) and Democratic Revolution (PRD) parties, who vowed to be more careful in evaluating and approving Fox visits abroad.

PRI spokesman Miguel Lucero said that Fox made the nation look ridiculous at the Summit of the Americas, where he fell all over himself to look good to Bush, who did not even bother to receive him.

Juan Jose Garcia, of the PRD, asserted the president´s ongoing diplomatic blunders damaged the international prestige of Mexico.

However, presidential spokesman Ruben Aguilar labelled the participation of Fox at the summit as a great success of Mexican foreign policy.

Aguilar´s opinion not only conflicts with the population but with the main media as well, which termed the Summit of Americas a "fiasco" where the US-pushed Free Trade Area of the Americas was sent back to the freezer.