Mexico aims to improve ties with Cuba
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President Felipe Calderon's administration has held discussions with Cuba on improving relations after a series of diplomatic spats in recent years, Mexico's foreign secretary said.
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MEXICO CITY -- Mexico is expanding its ability to tap telephone calls and e-mail using money from the US government, a move that underlines how the country's conservative government is increasingly willing to cooperate with United States on law enforcement.
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Cuba has released five political prisoners, including poet and journalist Raul Rivero, in recent days, in an apparent attempt to improve ties with the European Union.
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Mexico warned the United States  not to interfere in its affairs on Thursday in a fight over  drug wars on their sensitive border where Washington seeks  close cooperation against terror.
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The largest delegation from the U.S. Congress to visit Cuba since 1959 arrived in Havana on Friday seeking to open a dialogue with the communist government of acting President Raul Castro despite White House opposition to such contacts.
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Mexican state oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos has chosen potential private partners for a US$2.7 billion (euro2.15 billion) project to boost its faltering petrochemicals business.
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Cuba's communist government said it would defend itself against U.S. attempts to take advantage of Fidel Castro's health crisis as some exiles urged Washington to go further in fostering a democratic transition on the island.
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The European Union is considering a shift in policy toward Cuba that would get it back on speaking terms with President Fidel Castro's government, diplomats said.
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Cuba cut diplomatic ties with Panama on Thursday after its outgoing leader pardoned four Cuban exiles who plotted to kill President Fidel Castro in 2000.
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European Union foreign ministers  agreed on Monday to invite a Cuban delegation to Brussels to  explore the scope for a gradual thaw in ties but chose not to  end a four-year-old freeze in contacts.
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Mexico is holding out hope that Latin America will get more attention during President Bush's second term and obtain changes in what a senior Cabinet minister calls "absurd" U.S. immigration policies.
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Spain said Thursday it held "frank and cordial" discussions about human rights, the death penalty and treatment of prisoners in Cuba, despite U.S. complaints it has been too friendly with the communist island.
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Mexico's government said Thursday it would send troops and police to root out drug smugglers in several states, expanding an offensive that began this week in one violence-plagued state where soldiers clashed with traffickers trying to protect a marijuana field.
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Chicago Tribune - The Cuban government announced Monday that it is restoring diplomatic contacts with eight European countries almost two years after European nations scaled back their ties following the communist government's crackdown on dissent.
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Mexican President Vicente Fox promised U.S. business executives Thursday that his country will be a valuable part of free trade advancements on the continent and wants to be competitive but in a positive way.
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Mexico announced plans on Thursday to broaden its fight against feuding drug gangs, saying it would dispatch soldiers to other areas after sending 7,000 troops and police to one violence-plagued state this week.
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A senator from Mexico's ruling party on Wednesday proposed talks with the leftist rebel group Popular Revolutionary Army, or EPR, which bombed fuel pipelines last week.