Mexico Race War - whites against the browns

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Mexico Race War - whites against the browns

http://www.counterpunch.com/ross08312006.html

"Pinche Indios!"
Diary of the Mexican Earthquake

The criminal fraud perpetrated in the July 2 presidential election against leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) by the right-wing PAN party, President Vicente Fox, the Federal Electoral Institute and the Supreme Electoral Tribunal once again rips the mask off racism in Mexico.

As has been evident since the campaigns kicked off last January, Lopez Obrador represents the aspirations of Mexico's brown underclass. His right-wing rival Felipe Calderon's people are translucently white. Although the media and the political class refuse to recognize this reality, two months after the most hotly-contested presidential race in the nation's history, racism is driving the Mexican car to the precipice.

This Monday (August 29), the all-white Tribunal accelerated the suicide run when it ignored ample evidence of ballot box tampering and computer fraud presented by Lopez Obrador's electoral representatives, to confirm Calderon's and the white ruling elite's - much-questioned "victory."

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It is hardly a coincidence that Lopez Obrador, a white man who grew up in the Chontal Indian region of his native Tabasco state and who has the overwhelming support of "the people the color of the earth" as the absent Zapatista spokesperson Subcomandante Marcos once tagged the brown underclass, won Oaxaca handily last July 2. In fact, AMLO won 16 highly indigenous, impoverished, "brown" southern states while Calderon swept 16 states in the much more lightly complected north in the fraud-marred July balloting.

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In selling their candidates to the indigenous communities, the parties pitted Indians against Indians and the killing began before the ballots were even counted when supporters of the PRI and the PRD opened fire on each other in the highland Tzotzil municipality of Zinacantan. The bodies lay on the town basketball court for hours, the villagers too frightened to approach their dead. The Zapatistas reject elections and the political parties precisely because they divide and wound Indian communities.

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You see it in their lined brown faces, 70 year-old janitors and exhausted maids just off work from the nearby tourists hotels, the "abaniles" or day laborers, short dark street vendors, their faces taut with the fury that has been bottled up for 500 years, buried under the whips of the overseers and the crumbs the mal gobierno sprinkles on the poor, the hypocritical lip service paid to them on patriotic holidays, the dictatorship of the Televisocracy.

You hear it in the intensity of their chants, how they erupt from each brown throat in short angry bursts: "Duro!" (Hard!), "Fraude!" (Fraud!), "No Pasaran!" The signature cry of "Voto Por Voto, Casilla Por Casilla" ("Vote by Vote, Precinct by Precinct!") is almost too long to express their frustrations now.

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White News

Mexico's unmentioned race war is perhaps most dramatically reflected on the television screen. 100 per cent of those who read the lies-as-news on Televisa and TV Azteca are white Mexicans, some with blonde hair. They deliver the white news, the news of Calderon and his dubious "victory" and how awful AMLO's brown people are for fouling the streets of Mexico City with their filthy encampments. Although he is white like them, AMLO himself rarely even rates a mention unless Le Monde or the New York Times has run an interview with him that day and any notice of the great fraud perpetrated against the Mexican people is treated with disdain.
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500 years is too long

it's time for what goes around to come around