Media say airstrikes in Iraq detracted from the meeting.
I believe this is marvelous. Fox played down the timing and declined to comment on the bombing, but Mexican author Carlos Fuentes, one of two interviewers on Saturday's hourlong radio program, criticized the Americans for failing to inform Fox that the news was about to break. There shouldn't be surprises. In the past, U.S.-Mexican efforts to stop traffickers have been constrained by American suspicions of corruption in Mexican law enforcement agencies. On Saturday, Fox disclosed that he and Bush had agreed that the two nations will form a joint team to oversee the fight against drugs.