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totoneila on July 11, 2006 - 3:50am

Hello Dave,

Speaking of paranoia.....or is it fact? Obrador just released videos that he claims prove vote tampering:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/11/world/americas/11mexico.html

I hope Mexico can find a way to settle the rising conflict peacefully.

Bob Shaw in Phx,Az Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?

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totoneila on July 12, 2006 - 12:38am

Hello TODers,

Here is the latest update from the Washington Post:

AMLO unveils his Ammo

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/mexicovotes/2006/07/amlo_unveils_his_ammo.html

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Shortly before midnight Monday, lawyers for the left-leaning former mayor submitted a formal challenge of nearly 900 pages and called on Mexico's electoral tribunal (similar to the Supreme Court) to demand a recount of every single one of the 41 million votes cast July 2.

If that doesn't happen, Mexico could see an "insurrection," according to one of López Obrador's top aides.

"The warning by Gerardo Fernandez Noroña, the campaign's chief spokesman, was the most explicit high-level threat that the challenger's struggle to overturn his razor-thin defeat could erupt in civil disobedience and violence," reports the Los Angeles Times, which had the benefit of late deadlines. "Fernandez said that if the seven-judge Federal Electoral Tribunal upheld the result without a full recount and allowed Calderón to take office, "we are not going to let him govern."
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Mexico has historically been prone to revolutions.

Bob Shaw in Phx,Az Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?

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totoneila on July 12, 2006 - 1:07pm

Hello TODers,

Latest update from CounterPunch:

http://www.counterpunch.org/ross07122006.html
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History is What Comes Next
Mexico Splits in Half: the Election Hits the Streets

A full week after the most viciously contested presidential election in its modern history, a Florida-sized fraud looms over the Mexican landscape and the nation has been divided almost exactly in half along political, economic, geographical and racial lines.

Mexico has always been two lands "Illusionary Mexico" and "Profound Mexico" is how sociologist Guillermo Bonfils described the great divide between rich and poor. But now, should it be allowed to stand, right-winger Felipe Calderon's severely questioned 243.000 vote victory over left-wing populist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) will split the country exactly in half between the industrial north and the impoverished, highly indigenous south with each winning 16 states although the southern states won by Lopez Obrador, who also won Mexico City by a million votes, constitute 54% of the population.

Moreover, the disputed election pits an indignant Indian and mestizo underclass that believes AMLO was swindled out of the presidency by electoral fraud against a wealthy white conservative minority that controls the nation's media, its banks, and apparently, the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE), Mexico's maximum electoral authorities. Lopez Obrador charges the IFE and its president Luis Carlos Ugalde with orchestrating Calderon's uncertain triumph.

In Mexico, the past has equal value with the present and the memory of what came before can sometimes be what comes next. These are history-making moments south of the Rio Bravo. North Americans need to pay attention.
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AMLO is encouraging the largest protest march in Mexico's history this Sunday July 16, and is also threatening to have all PRD officials exit their govt. positions setting off a constitutional crisis.

Buckle-up folks--this could get ugly.

Bob Shaw in Phx,Az Are Humans Smarter than Yeast?