Bush won strong support from Fox on Monday for a proposal to grant temporary guest worker status to thousands of illegal Mexican immigrants in the United States. The move is part of an effort to soothe relations between the two countries, which have become strained in recent times, due to the US being occupied with its war on terror and Mexico's decision to stay out of the war on Iraq.

The rapprochement was a bright spot of the summit for the US, which had also hoped to use the Summit of the Americas to push forward its bid to finalise the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) by 2005. Instead, the high profile gathering of 33 heads of state from across the Americas highlighted the growing rift between the US and many Latin American countries over trade policies, the war on drugs and US interference in the region. (photo: AP)