Here, you can borrow mine for now if you need one. It's new because I wore out my old one.
It really does seem as if he is intent on starting a civil war down there, doesn't it?
I agree. I believe he wants revolution. They are not going to be happy until they have their little Chavez.
Typical leftist. If you can't win a legitimate national election you start a revolution.
Obragore needs to be arrested... but Vicente doesn't have the cahonies..
Here, you can borrow mine for now if you need one. It's new because I wore out my old one.
wow... this is almost FR Breaking News worthy... it definitely will be if they carry out the threats
Yes indeed. This is not good.
This is what algore tried to do in 2000. Kerry was PREPARED to do in 2004 AND what the young mobs do in france when they protested a law which actually required them to work.
Mexico is unstable and yet we have no protection on our border.
It is. No democratically justified constitution can withstand such attacks if they are concerted; not without relying on an authority beyond the will of the people. The internal logic of democracy would be compromised. Said constitution would lose, by denying the authority of the people, its own; which is based on the former.
Because the rule of law is obviously not compatible with the rule of the mob only in a few examples does democracy not lead to ideological revolutionary governments. And because there is no organic solution to the conflict between law and popular will other than one of cultural tradition (though, looking at recent American political trends we can see how week even that is), one of these rules will endeavor to make itself absolute over the other.
If it really was time to panic, I do not think we would see the peso getting stronger and the Bolsa (Mexico's stock exchange) rising as it has the past few days. Nor would the numbers of protesters be going down.
I see haggard, unshaven AMLO with spittle flying from his lips, standing in the city square 4 years from now holding a "Vota por Vota" sign and accepting propinas from American Democrats wanting to get their picture taken with him.
At least I can hope.
Loserman Lopez, like most socialists, has trouble listening to the voice of the people when it disagrees with what he thinks it should say.
Yes, it does look dangerous. Hopefully it will seal his doom as well. I can't believe that either Fox or Calderon will let this go on much beyond beyond the finalization of the election results. Rioting and unrest seem likely, but it looks like the government is safe and that the vast majority of Mexicans will be happy to see this guy crushed when the time comes. He got thirty-some percent in the election. I'm guessing (from your posts) that his support is much weaker now. The real question is whether the PRD, and the Mexican hard-left, can survive this debacle.
It looks as though Obrador and his faction are delusional-I agree with those who predict that when the loss of tourist dollars pinches harder, he will get a smackdown. I just hope no one gets hurt in the meantime.
I talked to my cousin who works for a hotel chain last night, and she said her boss told her they are not as booked as they should be at this time of year, even allowing for higher fuel prices.
One of the unfortnate by-products of the WOT is that we have not paid enough attention south of our border. Lula in Brazil, Chavez, Argentina, Chile, etc...have all lurched left. Uibe is doing a great job in Columbia but we cut our aid to him ostensibly because of our expenditures on the WOT.