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Mexico
Spurns US Anti-Cuban Policy
Mexican social-political
organizations are rallying
Tuesday to thwart implementation
in Mexico of US anti-Cuban laws,
widely snubbed by national
sectors.
The political gathering is
taking place in front of the
Maria Isabel Sheraton hotel,
whose executives expelled
February 3 a Cuban delegation by
order of the US government.
Pedro Gellert, leader of the
Mexican Movement of Solidarity
with Cuba said the repudiation
rally will further buttress Cuba
and damn Washington´s over
forty-year blockade on the
island.
A meeting had been scheduled at
the Maria Isabel Sheraton
between Cuban officials and
businesspeople with
representatives from large US
companies interested in the
potential of the Cuban energy
market.
Organized by the US-Cuban
Commerce Association, the
business gathering was open to
the media and press and would
bring together representatives
from Exxon Mobile, Caterpillar,
the Valero Energy Corporation,
which runs the US largest
refinery, and from the National
Council of Foreign Trade with
Cuban officials and
businesspeople.
Also attending were members of
the Louisiana State´s Economic
Development Department and the
Corpus Christi port in Texas.
The extraterritorial imposition
of US policies on Mexico has
been slammed alike by opposition
parties and government
officials.
On Monday evening, the Speaker
of the House of Representatives
Marcela Gonzalez Salas said the
expulsion of the Cuban
delegation based on a US law was
a real shame and called for
Sheraton hotel be sanctioned.
Also Monday, the coalition
backing presidential candidate
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
called the action against Cuban
officials, who had planned a
three-day meeting with US
businesspeople, fully
outrageous.
Meanwhile, the alliance made up
by Democratic Revolution and
Labor and the Convergence for
Democracy opposition parties
demanded from President Vicente
Fox respect for the national
sovereignty and independence.
For his part, Ricardo Ruiz,
secretary of the Federal
District, asserted the hotel
could be sanctioned and even
closed for violating Mexican
laws.
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