MEXICO/ FRANCE : Ambassador Walks Out As Sarkozy "Goes Crazy" Demanding Kidnapper's Release.

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K.Willsher, J. Tuckman/

     Mexico's ambassador in Paris walked out of a meeting in the French senate when the matter of kidnapper Florence Cassez was again brought-up.
    "Mexico cannot tolerate that judicial affairs be repeatedly dragged into (other, separate matters)."
     Cassez recently lost her final appeal in a 60-year jail sentence in Mexico.
    Sarkozy has described Cassez as a victim of injustice and demanded she be moved to French custody on humanitarian grounds.
     Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes, a former ambassador to France, describes Sarkozy of behaving like a "dictator of a banana republic" in mixing cultural relations with political, judicial and diplomatic ones.
     Some in France wonder why Sarkozy has adopted her as a cause célèbre when there are 2,500 other French prisoners in jail abroad, including at least one facing imminent execution.

New Carlos Fuentes Novel Portrays Mexico's Drug Wars.

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Carlos Fuentes new novel,“Adan en Eden” (Adam in Eden),is a journalistic report on drug trafficking and political corruption in Mexico to be published in November.
“It’s a novel-reportage, very journalistic,” that tells “how the country is being undermined by drug traffickers and by different kinds of corruption,” Fuentes said.