Re: Cuba: siempre con combate

[Diane Monaco <diane.monaco@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ulhas wrote:
> Diane Monaco wrote:
>
> > Cuba IS a remarkable country
>
> Hi Diane ! Mexico is not far behind Cuba in HDI,
> AFAIK.
>
> Btw, 75% Singaporeans, 50% Malaysians & 33% of Thais
> have cell phones. How many cell phones Cuba has?

Hola!  Hola!  I really don't know the answer to that question
and I don't recall seeing a cell phone while I was there.  I never
missed mine actually and I couldn't use an American credit card either --
another embargo thing.  But all that was kind of nice.  I also
drank tap water to conserve my cash  -- but that's something I
always do anyway wherever I travel to.  :)

Speaking of Cuba and Mexico...

Mexico, Cuba will reinstate envoys Monday
Associated Press
Jul. 23, 2004 12:00 AM
HAVANA - Mexico and Cuba have said they will reinstate ambassadors in
each other's countries next week, ending a diplomatic rift between Fidel
Castro's government and its former strongest ally.

Both countries withdrew their ambassadors in May after Mexico accused
Cuba of meddling in its internal affairs. Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe
Perez Roque and his Mexican counterpart Luis Ernesto Derbez said the
ambassadors would be reinstated Monday.

"We've made progress and agreed on the importance of working in
favor of bilateral relations," Perez Roque said.

Derbez, who arrived Sunday in Havana, said, "There can be
differences among friends on certain issues, but these differences can be
talked out."

Mexico, the only Latin American country to maintain ties with Havana
after the 1959 Cuban revolution, has been the communist island's
strongest ally in the region. For decades, Mexico used that connection to
mollify leftists upset by their country's close relationship with the
United States.

Relations between the two nations have been rocky since President Vicente
Fox took office in 2000 and criticized Cuba's human rights record. In
2002, Mexico supported a resolution of the U.N. Human Rights Commission
in Geneva condemning Cuba.

Mexico was later angered by Cuban allegations that a Mexican official
arrested in Havana on fraud charges was part of a larger political
conspiracy.

Mexican officials also said members of Cuba's Communist Party were
holding unauthorized political meetings in Mexico and took offense at
comments by Castro that Fox was a U.S. lackey.