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Twenty-one Cubans violently invaded the Mexican Embassy in Havana on Feb. 27 and asked to go to Mexico. Acceding to a request from the Mexican government, Cuban police and military peaceably removed them. By most accounts, the intruders were responding to rumors that Mexico was opening its doors to all comers. The rumors were linked to radio broadcasts from Miami that reported ambiguous remarks by Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castaneda.
Castaneda made the remarks on Feb. 26, during the inauguration of the Mexican Cultural Institute and a new Mexican Consulate General in Miami. Early the next morning, the US government-funded Radio Marti began broadcasting news accounts of Castaneda's speech, repeating eight times during the day that Castaneda had said that the doors of the embassy of his country in Havana are open to all Cuban citizens, the same as they are in Mexico.
The broadcasts also quoted a statement Castaneda made during Mexican President Vicente Fox's visit to Havana earlier in the month to the effect that relations between Mexico and the Cuban Revolution have ended and relations with the Republic of Cuba have begun (see NotiCen, 2002-02-28).
The Miami and Havana statements were later cited by some as evidence that Mexico had sharply altered its Cuba policy and was now offering visas to anyone who wanted to leave Cuba.
Later the same day, 21 Cuban men commandeered a city bus and crashed through the gates of the Mexican Embassy. Others who had gathered at the embassy because of the rumors were turned back by police as they tried to follow the bus on to the embassy grounds.
After meeting with the 21 intruders and failing to convince them to leave the embassy, Mexican Ambassador Ricardo Pascoe Pierce asked the Cuban government on March 1 to remove them from the building and said Mexico would...
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