Mexico and Cuba: from nonintervention to diplomatic clash
Journal Title: Revista de Estudios Marítimos y Sociales - Year 2013, Vol 6, Issue 11
Abstract
This article exposes the diplomatic crisis between Mexico and Cuba during the mandate of President Vicente Fox. The crisis resulted in the implementation of a new, more active, Mexican foreign policy in terms of human rights and democracy. The foreign policy implemented by the PRI during its 70 years in power was characterized by its traditional attachment to seven constitutional principles laid out in the revolutionary struggle of 1910. The policies of the PRI maintained during so many years resulted in a special, neighborly and friendly relationship with Cuba. Cuban/Mexican relations date back more than 100 years, but it wasn’t until the Cuban revolution of 1959 that Fidel Castro installed a communist government in Cuba that a special and strategic relationship with Mexico evolved. Although some academic studies deem that Cuban/Mexican relations were always stable, different Mexican administrations contributed to high and low points of said relations. There are three break points in particular; frstly, in the sixties when the United States promoted among Latin American countries an economic embargo and the rupture of relations with Cuba, the roots of this being the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 during which Mexico was the only Latin American country to maintain relations with the island; secondly, during negotiations of the NAFTA, when the Mexican President Carlos Salinas incorporated Cuban exiles in Miami as interlocutors, he ceded to their pressures so that the Cuban-Americans did not boycott the negotiations; fnally, the diplomatic crisis or quasi-rupture of relations in 2002, unprecedented in Mexican/Cuban bilateral relations, which came about because of a new Mexican foreign policy that some say bowed to the wishes of the United States and others that it corresponds to its originally postulates.
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Dainzú López de Lara E.
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