Havana ? Twenty-one Cubans on Thursday remained holed up in the Mexican Embassy after plowing through the gates with a stolen bus. Cuba’s government blamed an exile-run U.S. government radio station for repeatedly quoting a Mexican official as saying the embassy’s doors “are open.”

By the evening, Mexican officials were seeking a solution to the standoff in separate talks with the Cubans in the embassy and with Cuban officials in Havana, said Gloria Abella, Mexico’s Foreign Department spokeswoman.

“The matter will be resolved in two to three days,” she told The Associated Press in Mexico City.

Mexican officials were discussing the matter “in the sense that those young people leave the embassy and do not face problems,” Abella said.

Mexican Foreign Secretary Jorge Castaneda said Thursday that standoff began after his words were taken out of context by “radicals” in Miami who “no doubt wanted to use, to distort, my declarations.”

Castaneda told Radio Red that reports in Miami had confused two separate statements he made there while opening a Mexican Cultural Center. He said he declared the center’s “doors are open to the entire Latino community in Miami” while also saying that Mexico itself was open to Cuban dissidents.

He said Mexican officials were trying to persuade the Cubans to leave and they had not asked for asylum. Castaneda also indicated it was unlikely they would get Mexican visas.

Mexico has asked Cuba to bring in “a large deployment of public forces” to prevent an event like the one Wednesday night from happening again, Castaneda told Radio Red in Mexico City. “We will not permit it.”

There were 21 Cuban men inside the mission Thursday, other Mexican officials said on condition they not be named. They described the situation inside as “calm” and said the Cubans had received food and medical attention.

In a statement Thursday, Fidel Castro’s government called the reports from Radio Marti a “gross provocation” that led listeners to believe that Mexico would grant refuge to any Cuban who showed up. Operated largely by Cuban exiles in Miami, Radio Marti beams anti-Castro news, talk shows and other programs to the island.

“Castro blames us anytime anything happens. He has to blame somebody,” said Salvador Lew, director of the Miami-based station.