Move over Saddam: Statue of Vicente Fox torn down in Mexico

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Opposition protesters egged and then tore down a bronze statue of former Mexican President Vicente Fox down today, just hours after it was erected.

Workers put up the commemorative statue before dawn in the city of Boca del Rio, in Veracruz state.

But by 9 a-m some 100 angry protesters, many of them members of the Institutional Revolutionary party, or P-R-I, surrounded the figure.

Fox, of the conservative National Action party, ended 71 years of P-R-I rule with his historic election in July 2000.

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5i9ZK3lHES5CA5bxeYCn1jALD1NAQ

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1. What the people don't love their corporate masters? n/t

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2. I thought the PRI were the corrupt bullies.....nt