Minister of Foreign Relations Eduardo Latorre said that while Cuban President Fidel Castro has accepted an official invitation to visit the DR, made by high level Dominican government executives in Cuba for the formal opening of the Dominican consulate in Havana, the date has not been set. Latorre said that Castro said that in the "upcoming months a date would be set". According to a recent interview of Wall Street Journal Americas-Listin Diario, most Dominicans do not have a good opinion on the Cuban statesman. 60.8% of those polled expressed their opinion of Castro as a very bad or bad. Dominican President Leonel Fernández received much better ratings with 65.2% rating him as very good or good. Dominicans rated Bill Clinton as very good or good with 66.4%.
