AMLO ALERT! PAN Representative Accuses AMLO'S PRD OF Kidnapping PAN Official (Translation)

eluniversal.com.mx ^ | July 12, 2006 | Jorge Teherán & Sergio Javier Jiménez ( translated by self )

[StJacques]

PAN Notices Acts of Violence; Hold AMLO Responsible

PAN leaders provide information that they have interposed a demand before the Procurator General of the Republic¹ in the presumed kidnapping of one of their representatives in Comalcalco, Tabasco at the hands of PRD members.

PAN holds Andrés Manuel López Obrador responsible for "whatever violence he generates" in the country, after calling upon his supporters to concentrate in the 300 district meetings of the Federal Electoral Institute.

In a press release, PAN's representative to the IFE², Germán Martínez Cázares, asserted that López Obrador is "the only one responsible and no one else" for the violence that one is now beginning to experience in the offices of the IFE.

Also, he accused the For the Good of All coalition -- which brought together the PRD³, PT⁴, and the PVEM⁵ in the last election -- of attempting to nullify the election⁶

"They are looking to throw into the garbage the civic effort of 41 million Mexicans for the simple reason that the result did not favor them," [Martínez] asserted.

Martínez accused López Obrador of putting his ambition above that of the results, and that of his movement "above the national interest."

On his part, the Adjutant Secretary General of the PAN party, César Nava Vázquez, provided information that his party has interposed a demand before the Procurator General of the Republic for the presumed kidnapping of one of its representatives in Comalcalco, Tabasco, at the hands of a mob headed headed by Juan Ramiro López Obrador, Andrés Manuel's brother; César Raúl Ojeda Zubieta, a PRD candidate for government office in the state, and Adán Augusto López Hernández.

Nava accused the PRD of carrying out "crude maneuvers" to discredit the presidential election and put up as an example the Comalcalco case, where IFE functionaries carried out with diligence the opening of electoral packets⁷ after successfully obtaining required documentation from the PRD's own [representative].

Now, he explained, that diligence has been converted into a crime.

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Translator's Notes:

¹Procuraduría General de la República, a national agency whose primary responsibility is dealing with organized crime.

²Acronym for the Instituto Federal Electoral, or the Federal Electoral Institute, which conducts the vote counting in the presidential elections.

³Acronym for the Partido de La Revolucion Democratica, or Party of the Democratic Revolution, Lopez Obrador's party.

⁴Acronym for the Partido del Trabajo, or the Labor Party.

⁵Acronym for the Partido Verde Ecologista, or the Ecologist Green Party.

⁶Under Mexican electoral law it is possible to nullify an election if the TEPJF (Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Power of the Federation) comes to a decision that either the campaign was not fairly conducted or the vote counting was so flawed as to make the result indeterminate.

⁷The "electoral packets" are the casillas, the ballots cast in each precinct that are crated and sealed after the count is certified by on-site representatives of all the major parties and which are not supposed to be opened by the election officials unless irregularities are detected

[StJacques]

Things are heating up in Mexico. Lopez Obrador and the left are beginning to throw caution to the winds. If they don't step back soon it could explode.

[StJacques]

Mexican post-election ping.

AMLO & co. are very nearly going off the deep end here.

Anyone interested in tracking down my other translations on the Mexican post-election controversy can do so by doing a keyword search for -- STJTRANSLATION

[NinoFan]

Thanks for the ping. This is really heating up!

[California Patriot]

And let's hope it "explodes" in the right direction.

[conservative in nyc]

This doesn't sound too good.

[StJacques]

Maybe "implodes" is the word we're looking for here.

[freedumb2003]

FWIIW, apparently Ordagore is now saying his supporters -- including many close to him -- have been paid off by the PAN and are out to get him.

He's gone around the bend.

My wife is worried about civil war, but doesn't think it will come to that.

[California Patriot]

Maybe both can happen. I'd like to see an explosion first. Then, whatever is left of PRD can implode.

[California Patriot]

Excellent news, if true. All things considered, a wacko is less dangerous in this situation than a coldly calculating guy. If he were in power, it would be different, but he isn't in power yet. If he's a loony, we have a somewhat better hope of keeping him out of power.

[StJacques]

"My wife is worried about civil war, but doesn't think it will come to that."

I don't think we'll have to worry about that until after the electoral tribunal rules. Then we'll see.

What I'm kind of hoping for here is that AMLO and the PRD discredit themselves so thoroughly in the eyes of the Mexican people before the tribunal rules that any call for revolt he might make will fall on deaf ears. I know he has a hard core of support that will stick with him no matter what, but they may still understand that they've lost before they begin.

[BunnySlippers]

Obviously this is not making it to international news ... but it can fuel tempers in Mexico. Obrador is really a bad guy.

BTW, saw an Obrador bumper sticker on the freeway here in Los Angeles. It said something like "Vamos a ganar" whatever ganar means. It also said "Siglio" or something ... and that stupid little cartoon of Obrador.

[Thunder90]

Ready the hit squad to take out AMLO if these games don't stop.

[El Conservador]

Vamos a ganar = We're gonna win

[StJacques]

"Vamos a ganar" means "we're going to win."

"Siglo" means century. I'd have to know what the rest of the phrasing was to make any kind of guess as to what it meant.

And yes; Obrador really is a bad guy. He and his followers are not checked by their own consciences. That is danger from the get-go.

[BunnySlippers]

Does "siglio" mean something? Or "sidio"... :)

I'm not much help. :)

[StJacques]

"Ready the hit squad to take out AMLO if these games don't stop."

This might not be so unlikely an occurrence as one might think Thunder90. There are powerful people whose interests are threatened here.

And I'm being very serious here.

[StJacques]

I'm just guessing but you may be seeing the word "sido" which is a participle of the verb "ser" = "to be."

Haber sido = "to have been"

I'm reaching here, but just trying to help you out.

[BunnySlippers]

Silly, don't you know I can't be helped? :-P

[Thunder90]

We must do everything to prevent a "Red Dawn" scenario here on our soil.

[StJacques]

The real danger, even if Lopez Obrador were to win the election recount, is that we find ourselves facing a mass migration northwards out of Mexico -- much larger than anything we have ever seen -- because the country falls apart completely. They can be driven out to escape a revolutionary situation or they can be driven out because the whole system just flat out crashes, either way it destabilizes us.

I really got into it with a couple of Freepers the other day who were incensed that I would be rooting for Calderon because they know that Calderon wants to see the status of Mexicans illegally here in the U.S. made legal. I tried to explain that any Mexican President would want that because they are a source of money coming into Mexico. I oppose the idea, but that didn't matter. All my efforts to try to make people understand that Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is a very real threat fell on deaf ears. They didn't even want to contemplate the idea that we could discuss what goes on in Mexico because the illegal immigrant situation in this country is so bad that all Mexicans have to bear their share of the blame.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is a genuine threat to destabilize our country. I'm not going to agree with everything Calderon does and I intend to stand up for the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws, but it is so easy to see that Mexico, and the U.S., are both so much better off with Calderon in power than with AMLO. And I worry what will happen if AMLO doesn't get his way. Or maybe I should say "when" AMLO doesn't get his way.