They are still struggling for democracy in Mexico

[jarnocan]

nice to know they CARE!

López Obrador maintains that in 173 of 300 voting districts, the balloting was riddled with fraud and tabulation errors.
At stake is not just Mexico's presidency, but also the possibility of wider protests by López Obrador's supporters.
This week's action caused major traffic gridlock, millions of pesos in losses for businesses and headaches for residents. But as officials of Lopez Obrador's leftist Revolutionary Democratic Party met Friday night to strategize, some predicted more serious action, including blockades of highways, bridges, ports, airports and government buildings.

from 8/4 a recount was being consiedered http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003176696_mexvote05.htm

they decided on a 10% recount for now. 8/8

Andrés Manuel López Obrador, didn't sound like the delusional would-be Messiah his opponents portray. He sounded like a confident, stubborn man who truly believes he was robbed of victory in the July 2 election and intends to fight to the bitter end. Maybe beyond.
Official returns showed leftist López Obrador losing to the candidate of the right, Felipe Calderón, by a margin of 0.6 percent. López Obrador seemed a sure winner, according to exit polls, and he alleged widespread fraud in the vote count

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/07/AR2006080701014.html

I remember that article often quoted about EXIT polls -written by a right winger- when he early on after our fradulent elctions, was accusing the media of lying about them- He used Mexico as an example of his claim that EXIT polls had never been wrong. (Now we know they have never been wrong except in cases of MASSIVE FRAUD-duh)

López Obrador's... candidacy was a historic opportunity to give the disenfranchised majority a real voice for the first time.
His message has had tremendous resonance. Mexico is riven by many fractures -- rich vs. poor, white vs. indigenous, the relatively affluent north vs. the desperately impoverished south. ...Calderón appealed to the wealthy, the middle class and the upwardly mobile.... López Obrador appealed to poor Mexicans who believed the deck was stacked against them and to better-off voters who agreed with his ideology.

and of course our own Bu**SH** regime backed and assisted the one that appealed to the more well off.

[liberalmike27]

1. I've heard

that choicepoint had something to do with the elections. THey were the same database company that deleted all of the black sounding names from the voter rolls in Florida. Remember how so many showed up to vote and weren't able to because they had been purged. I'm sure those people alone would've been enough to have put Gore in office.

[jarnocan]

2. Yes and that assistance was supplied by US

it was suppose to be part of our war on terror...???

[ERF]

3. Seems like he might have a legitimate beef. But at what

point does he have to stop the protests for the good of the country even if he doesn't get the recount he deserves?

[sam sarrha]

4. UN declared Mexico 'Democratically Irretrievable and Morally Bankrupt'

it would take 4 or 5 generations to bring them back to a real democracy corruption is so endemic

the drug cartels own Mexico

[sam sarrha]

5. W made a deal with Fox, to allow open boarders to export their poverty and

for us to buy their oil at inflated prices..

there is a lot at stake for Fox, billions of dollars in personal wealth, skimmed profits