Outcry over Mexican elections falling on deaf ears

[lovuian]

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=18c55c46781cf1b3

couple of years ago television, radio and print media in the west just couldn't get enough of 'people power'.

In quick succession, from Georgia's rose revolution in November 2003, via Ukraine's orange revolution a year later, to the tulip revolution in Kyrgyzstan and the cedar revolution in Lebanon, 24-hour news channels kept us up to date with democracy on a roll.

Triggered by allegations of election fraud, the dominoes toppled. The US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, was happy with the trend: 'They're doing it in many different corners of the world, places as varied as Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan and, on the other hand, Lebanon ... And so this is a hopeful time.'

But when a million Mexicans try to jump on the people-power bandwagon, crying foul about the July 2 presidential elections, when protesters stage a vigil in the centre of the capital that continues to this day, they meet a deafening silence in the global media. Despite Mexico's long tradition of electoral fraud and polls suggesting that Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador - a critic of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) - was ahead, the media accepted the wafer-thin majority gained by the ruling party nominee, Harvard graduate Felipe Calderon.

Although Mexico's election authorities rejected Lopez Obrador's demand for all 42m ballots to be recounted, the partial recount of 9% indicated numerous irregularities. But no echo of indignation has wafted to the streets of Mexico City from western capitals

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The Powers to be are making a sham of democracy... Its going to take a total revolution and its coming... Bush can't stop it...

[Selatius]

1. You want to know why this is happening?

Because if Obrador wins, NAFTA is dead in the water. You cannot have a leftist leader at the doorstep of the empire. The problem with Obrador is that he doesn't want to play the same game most of the largest capitalists in North America play, and that scares them because here is a person from the people who actually has the position to challenge their monopoly on power, and they simply cannot stand it.

Gandhi said, "First they ignore you; then they laugh at you; then they fight you; then you win."

[lovuian]

2. Yep I agree

and he will bring the wages up too...