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the final precincts reporting 100 to 1 totals for Calderon (impossible totals) to give him his squeaker .05 "win."
They're as bad as the Bushites.
Calderon IS Bush. And it's all about oil, there, too. The Corporate Rulers want to privatize Mexico's oil.
Notice who gets demonized by the corporate news monopolies? Hugo Chavez, who believes that Venezuela's oil revenues should benefit Venezuela's people, and that oil giants should pay their fair share. And Lopez Obrador, who believes the same.
It's partly about NAFTA (i.e., slave labor). But it's mostly about oil. Oil greed can get very nasty. A couple of hundred thousand innocent people got slaughtered for it, in Iraq. More may get slaughtered in Iran. A lot of people are getting tortured over it. And some are already getting tortured and slaughtered in Mexico, to stop the great social movement led by Lopez Obrado that is in progress there.
And, frankly, I didn't see this coming--the fascist boot coming down in Mexico. I knew Ruiz was a bastard and was killing people in Oaxaca. I didn't think that Fox/Calderon would come in on the side of Ruiz--the governor who is running paramilitary death squads against the Oaxacan people--with a federal army to inflict further death and brutality. I thought they would negotiate Ruiz's resignation. Boy, was I wrong! Ruiz was acting on behalf of the Corporate Rulers all along. He isn't a rogue governor. He is their main man.
This is very, very, very bad, from the point of view of immediate harm to many poor people and leftist (majorityist) leaders in Mexico, especially southern Mexico and Mexico City. But I don't think the Corporate Rulers are going to win this one, in the end. There has been a deep sea change in Latin American politics over the last few years, with leftist (majorityist) governments elected in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, Chile, Bolivia, and last week in Ecuador (and likely in the next election cycle, Peru)--virtually the entire continent. This huge block of leftist governments--and the SUCCESSES they've had, in restoring their economies after World Bank/IMF/Corporate Ruler devastation, and decades of fascist rule--is the future. They are already showing strength in efforts of regional economic and political cooperation, and self-determination. The rich elites in these countries who collude with pigs like Bush and benefit from the oppression of their own people, are on the wane--discredited, disreputable thieves. The rich oil elite in Venezuela has done everything possible to oust Hugo Chavez, for instance--from a violent military coup attempt, a crippling oil professionals' strike, a wasteful, absurd recall election, and 24/7 (all stations, all newspapers) corporate ruler media anti-Chavez propaganda, to taking large infusions of political money from the Bush Junta (OUR tax dollars) to run their recent campaign. And, yesterday, Chavez beat them by a landslide (61% of the vote!), in a heavily monitored election. This is the way things are moving throughout South America. South Americans have had it with US dominance and interference, and US corporate exploitation.
Colombia is fat with Bush military money (OUR money!)--$600 million this year alone--and Paraguay is a worry, where the Bush Cartel is reportedly purchasing some sort of huge compound, to go with the US military air base they've beefed up, at our expense. (A private corporate resource war against the Andean democracies--Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela--launched from Paraguay?) Central America is also lagging--with basketcase economies and fascist rulers in Guatemala and Honduras, and a little light shining in Nicaragua, with the recent election of Daniel Ortega (yeah, THE Daniel Ortega). And El Salvador is not well (fascists in charge again). But the larger trend in Latin American countries is overwhelmingly democratic and socialist/leftist, but more than this, it is strongly committed to self-determination and independence, and opposed to the dinosauric past of US-backed dictators and World Bank/NAFTA-style corporate rule (destruction of all social programs, theft of their resources).
The Mexicans, like those of us in the north, need to do more work on their election system. There is no way that Calderon represents the great majority of Mexicans--who are poor to dirt poor. Like Bush, he could only gain power by stealing it. This is the key--transparent elections. It has been the key everywhere that popular, majorityist leaders are gaining power. Mexico has a new electronic tabulation system (that Calderon's brother has an interest in, as I understand it) that needs to be defeated, and the federal election tribunal that permitted this farce needs to be democratized; as here, we have two Bushite corporations now "tabulating" all our votes with TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code, and a very corrupt Bush-appointed federal "Election Assistance Commission" that has nearly destroyed our democracy by fast-tracking non-transparent electronic voting systems.
Transparent elections = good, leftist government.
Non-transparent elections = fascist pig government.
But, of course, it's more than this. Non-transparent vote counting is just the coup de grace. In Oaxaca, the governor's paramilitaries beat you up if you vote; here, they just electronically purge you from the voting rolls, when it suits them, especially if you're black or poor, or cheat you of precincts, or force you to vote on a "provisional" ballot then toss your vote out. We need to address all these ant-democratic mechanisms. Close scrutiny of the actual voting process is also needed (--and was quite impressive this time in the U.S.)
There is a lot of work to be done--civic work, grass roots work--to better monitor the elections in Mexico, and here--and to purge both our systems of corporate-controlled electronics. Voting is POWER. It's the people's power. It's the fundamental mechanism by which we exercise our sovereignty as a people. You simply cannot expect these radical fascist forces that are under Corporate Ruler control to yield to normal democratic pressures and liberal ethics regarding dissent. They WILL NOT COMPROMISE, clearly. They will give nothing to you and me. They want it all--all the profit, all the marbles. And they are killing the world in their oil gluttony and intention to PUSH oil upon us, to the last drop of it, and to the last gas-gouging dime, while the planet dies of CO2 poisoning.
We and the Mexicans are at the vortex of this evil. We are the only ones who can solve it. And the means by which it has been solved elsewhere is TRANSPARENT elections. We don't want to solve it the way the Iraqis are solving it--by armed rebellion and civil war. And we need to be more visionary. The Iraq conflict is being driven, I think, by greed for oil among the tribes--including the Bush tribe--rather than a desire to get OFF oil. The Chavez model is worth considering in this context. It's a visionary model, to use the oil profits for education, medical care, and all sorts of helps for the poor--such as small business loans--aimed at future economic diversification. Oil profits are a short-term thing, as the Chavez government seems to know. Use it to BUILD something...now. An educated populace, thriving small trade, food self-sufficiency, strong community-based citizen participation, Constitutional government and the rule of law, and the development of other resources--as well as regional cooperation (trading oil for doctors with Cuba, building the new bridge over the Orinoco River with Brazil, buying out Argentina's World Bank debt on easy terms, to help create yet another healthy economy and South American trading partner).
We, too, could be building something--or, rather, rebuilding what we had--if we didn't have the Bush Cartel running our government (and too many collusive Democrats). But we really must have vote counting that everyone can SEE, as the fundamental condition needed for creating a positive future. And this will probably have to be achieved locally, all across the nation. (Even now, the Corporate Democrats in Congress are planning to curtail election reform, by promulgating a bill--HR 550--that permits continued corporate control, and fosters more billions in electronic voting contracts to the corporations that have so darkened our voting process. Nothing much can be done about this. They will pass it. And we will have to seek true transparency at the local/state level, in a struggle against all this very corrupt money coming from our very corrupt Congress.)
Viva la revolución!
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