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Mexico Leftists Target Fox Ranch as Anger Simmers

By Alistair Bell

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican leftists targeted President Vicente Fox's ranch on Sunday in a political crisis over Mexico City's left-wing mayor that cast a shadow over next year's presidential elections and caused the stock market to drop.

About 100 supporters of the Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD, angry at a bid to put the mayor on trial,marched on Sunday toward the Fox family's heavily protected farm, where scuffles broke out the day before.

Local and federal deputies exchanged blows with presidential security agents and locals outside the San Cristobal ranch in the state of Guanajuato on Saturday.

It was part of a campaign of "civil resistance" in favor of the popular mayor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who faces charges of contempt of court in a legal case that could knock him out of the presidential elections in 2006.

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