After the famous "You eat and you go" episode in 2002, under Calderón the relationship has rebounded. So much so that Raúl Castro said yesterday that "[the relationship] will start being magnificent."
I have mixed feelings about all the attention Calderón has devoted to improving Mexico's relationship with Venezuela and Cuba, but it's interesting how the changes in personality have made the improvement possible. Fidel Castro is to Raúl as Vicente Fox is to Calderón: despite ideological similarities, in each pair, the first is a hothead while the second is calmer and more pragmatic. (I'm not sure how well that description applies to Raúl over the length of his career, but certainly it is applicable to his short stint leading Cuba.) Not surprisingly, Fidel and Chente presided over a disaster, but Raúl and Felipe have managed to overcome their ideological differences.
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