Mexico - According to an article published today on CNN, Former Mexican President Felipe Calderón was a short distance from the area where the two explosions went off near the Boston Marathon's finish line on Monday. Moments earlier, he had congratulated the Mexicans who participated in the race.

"My solidarity is with the victims of today's explosions in Boston and with the American people that unjustly suffers these acts," Calderón wrote in a Twitter post.

"It is inevitable to remember that the planes that were hijacked and struck the twin towers on September 11 departed from Boston," he tweeted.

Calderón, who governed Mexico from 2006 to 2012, is spending this academic year as an Angelopoulos Global Public Leaders Fellow at the Kennedy School at Harvard University.