Weekly Report - 9 December 2003

President Vicente Fox has been sounding a bitter note regarding the US and his `great friend' George Bush Jr. Last week, in one of his many discussions with the press about the midpoint of his term of office, he said, `The 11 September affair got in the way and priorities there changed — then the Iraq affair and all that it entailed. President Bush and the US government have forgotten us and that is wrong: they have forgotten the bilateral relation when the first thing we should look out for is our neighbours.'