Another drop in the bucket…
I’ve added a Secret/Noforn (Secret, no foreign distribution) cable from then U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza, fretting back in October 2008 about the Calderon Administrations attempts to repair relations with Venezuela, which weren’t all that bad, although the Calderon and Chavez administrations come from very different ideological and economic places, and Calderón (probably with Garza’s assistance) was still claiming Hugo Chavez had something to do with the López Obrador campaign, which both López Obrador and Hugo Chavez both deny. My favorite quote from this one:
[Foreign Ministry’s (SRE) Director for South America, Rafael] Bernal [Cuevas] mentioned the presence of Bolivarian groups in Mexico, but noted that such groups exist throughout the world and that, as a democracy, Mexico had to offer them freedom of expression.
Rather inconvenient when foreigners take democracy seriously.
mexfiles.net 