A possible Mexico-Venezuela-Cuba alliance?

A surge by the conservative candidate in Mexico's 2006 presidential race has prompted rampant speculation that top U.S. political strategist Dick Morris may be advising his campaign.

With ten weeks to go in the race, the pro-American Felipe Calderon had been trailing leftist Andres Manual Lopez Obrador, with third party candidate, Roberto Madrazo, bringing up the rear. Current President Vicente Fox cannot run again under Mexican law.

Last month, however, the Lopez Obrador campaign was bombarded by a tsunami of negative TV ads, a development that catapulted Calderon into a slim lead - 38 to 35 percent - according to one newspaper survey. The Washington Post notes that the ad campaign had a decidedly American flavor - with a message that linked Lopez Obrador to Venezuela's anti-U.S. president Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro.

Meanwhile, as most of the U.S. press remained oblivious, Morris used his column in the New York Post to point out the dangers of a possible Mexico-Venezuela-Cuba alliance. Read on...