Mexico summoned Uruguay's ambassador on Sunday after the South American country's president described Mexico as a kind of "failed state" in a magazine interview.
President Jose Mujica's comments were in response to a question about 43 college students missing in southern Mexico and appeared in Foreign Affairs' Latin American edition.
But late Sunday Mujica released a statement on Uruguay's presidential website backing away from the comment and saying that Mexico wasn't a failed state.
"The crude news that reaches us about the consequences of drug trafficking in countries like Guatemala, Honduras and now Mexico shout . . .
