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  • Arterial Blockage, Mexico City ailing badly

    08/06/2006 2:13:25 PM PDT · by rovenstinez · 6 replies · 437+ views
    Las Vegas Sun ^ | August 6, 2006 | rovenstinez
    Lopez Obrador supporters' protest camps have blocked Mexico City's main Reforma Avenue and Zocalo square, snarling traffic for a week in the cultural and financial heart of the capital. Braving near-nightly rainstorms and even flooding at the height of Mexico's monsoon, the protesters have refused to leave despite pleas from President Vicente Fox. "We are going to continue our peaceful civil resistance movement," Lopez Obrador said Saturday, adding that the tribunal's judges were "legally weak." He then spent his seventh straight night in a tent in the Zocalo, rising early Sunday and heading to his apartment to shower. His followers...
  • Rain, Rain in Mexico City, PROTESTORS WET

    08/05/2006 7:21:39 PM PDT · by rovenstinez · 11 replies · 687+ views
    El Universal ^ | August 5, 2006 | rovenstinez
    Rains causing flooding in west part of Mexico City. In various parts of Mexico city, water was standing 60 centimeters,