http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-1947820,00.html
Thursday August 15, 2002 4:20 AM
MEXICO CITY (AP) - President Vicente Fox canceled a trip to Texas and a meeting with President Bush to protest the state's execution Wednesday of convicted cop killer Javier Suarez Medina.
Fox had announced an Aug. 26-28 visit to four Texas cities and to Bush's ranch. But at a hastily organized press conference Wednesday night, presidential spokesman Rodolfo Elizondo said Fox wouldn't make the trip because Texas executed Suarez, who Fox says is a Mexican national.
``This decision is an unequivocal signal of rejection of the execution,'' Elizondo said. ``It would be inappropriate, in these lamentable circumstances, to go ahead with the visit to Texas.''
A senior administration official said he did not believe the decision would ``dent'' U.S.-Mexican relations, adding that there was no set agenda for the meeting.
Earlier, a White House official had said earlier that Fox and Bush spoke by telephone Tuesday night, but did not speak Wednesday. The official would not disclose what the two leaders discussed.
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