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Mexicans Call to Control Fox Visits Abroad

Mexico, Nov 11 (Prensa Latina) International relation experts in Mexico believe President Vicente Fox´ travels abroad must be regulated, following harsh criticism of his performance at the Summit of the Americas.

The President has lost his compass and the course of diplomacy must be corrected to make friends, asserted former ambassador Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, who said Fox´ blunders in Mar del Plata were not the only ones he had committed.

Latin American nations consider the Mexican stance servile to the US, he noted, urging Congress to control the Fox trips abroad.

The Chamber of Deputies is slated to decide on Friday whether the president attends the 13th meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Forum in Pusan, South Korea, next week.

The Senate okayed his participation in that forum, but made it clear that no other request will be considered until the foreign policy for the next six years is evaluated with Fox and his foreign minister.

Lawmakers of the Institutional Revolutionary (PRI) and the Democratic Revolution (PRD) parties warned they would veto the Fox trip to the APEC meeting.

However, PRI member Carlos Jimenez said Fox should be allowed to travel to South Korea.