HAVANA: Cuban President Raul Castro will make his first official visit to Mexico Nov. 5-7, marking a kind of reset in relations with a country that long backed the Cuban revolution before ties turned rocky a decade ago.
Castro will join Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto in the Yucatan capital city of Merida, which is geographically closer to the Cuban capital than it is to Mexico City.
It will be the first time Castro has visited Mexico since taking power in 2006.
Relations “have been in an excellent stage since the reset the two governments launched in November 2013,” Mexico’s Foreign Relations Department said in a statement.
Pena Nieto’s Institutional Revolutionary Party traditionally supported Cuba’s communist government, but relations suffered from 2000-2012, when the conservative National Action Party held Mexico’s presidency.
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