In March 2002, Mexico hosted a United Nations summit on financing for development in Monterrey. Before it, President Vicente Fox telephoned Fidel Castro. He invited the Cuban leader to lunch and asked him to leave after his speech, “para que no me compliques el viernes,” so that he would not complicate Friday for Fox. The call became known by the phrase comes y te vas, “you eat and you leave.”
In April 2002, Cuba broadcast the recording. The Mexican government answered that Fox “en ningún momento le pidió a su contraparte que no asistiera a la Cumbre de Monterrey,” at no time asked his counterpart not to attend the summit. In 2016, Fox called the arrangement “una propuesta mía,” a proposal of his own.