Mexico's Vicente Fox - 7 months to go and nothing is going right

i posted about this last week...

Bush got on famously with fellow conservative and rancher Fox at the start of his first term, but the friendship cooled when Washington's focus switched to the Middle East and security after September 11, 2001.

ever since then and particularly after mexico refused to support the u.s. invasion of iraq, george has left vicente to swing slowly in the wind...

Branded a "lap dog" of imperialism, Mexican President Vicente Fox has earned contempt from leftist Latin American leaders for his close ties to the United States, and little in return from Washington.

A plan to let more immigrants work legally in the United States -- Mexico's headline foreign policy goal -- has become bogged down in Congress after five years of lobbying from Fox.

That is despite Fox taking flak from critics of the United States in the region for defending U.S. proposals for regional free trade. Mexico also feels let down by U.S. criticism of its fight against drug gangs on the border.

President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Nestor Kirchner of Argentina this month harangued Fox for promoting a planned Americas-wide trade pact known as the FTAA which left-wing leaders complain will be slanted to benefit the United States.

Mexico and Venezuela withdrew ambassadors last week as Chavez refused to apologize for calling Fox a U.S. lap dog and warned, "Don't mess with me, mister, or you'll get stung."

The dispute was similar to a fight Fox had with Cuba last year about human rights and Mexico's good relations with its northern neighbor.

fox's six year term comes to an end in july next year... you can bet he's looking forward to bein' outta there...

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