750 Policemen Will Protect AMLO's Demonstrators Tomorrow in Mexico City (Translation)

eluniversal.com.mx ^ | July 7, 2006 | Claudia Bolaños ( translated by self )

[livius]

Thank you for all your work! And the careful footnoting!

I see the left is, as usual, ready to rumble and the police are going to be very careful not to give them a pretext for causing a disturbance. Well, a really, really bad disturbance, at any rate - I'm sure Obrador's followers will "disturb" as much as they think they can get away with.

I get really, really tired of the left sometimes. Make that all the time.

[StJacques]

Re your #20 on discrepancies. I have seen some of those reports and they revealed discrepancies in both directions. Aguascalientes is the instance the PRD people are screaming about, but elsewhere the opening of the electoral packages for a manual recount went in favor of the PAN.

[BuglerTex]

I agree with CedarDave. Magnetic. Keep up the good work. We need the truth to be out.

I will have an afternoon together next week with an old friend of mine who did some world class engineering in Mexico a while back, so I will get the straight scoop before he returns. Do yall have any specific questions? Stay secure, freep mail me if sensitive.

[StJacques]

"I get really, really tired of the left sometimes. Make that all the time."

The Left = A Hemorroid For Us All

[livius]

I read a bit about this in the Mexican press yesterday, and it appeared that the PRD was claiming that some votes were not legible, the markings were blurred, etc. In other words, it seems to me that they actually managed to get some disqualified or are claiming that they should be disqualified, going for a version of the old "hanging chad" technique that served the Dems so well.

[livius]

Kind of catchy - AHFUA!

[StJacques]

". . . Do yall have any specific questions? . . ."

You might ask him about what kind of police presence the national government can and does exercise in Mexico City and its surrounding areas. I ask this because is lesser-developed countries the question of "who controls the government" is usually answered by "who is in control in the capital city." My principal worry about Lopez Obrador and his followers is that they might just try to seize upon this maxim and force events to their own advantage or, at the very least as they are now doing, intimidate the organs of government to give them what they want out of a fear that they might just act to take matters into their own hands.

By the way, with a nic like "BuglerTex" I would just about have to make you out to be an Aggie. Am I right? I went to grad school at A&M, just to explain my interest.

[StJacques]

"Kind of catchy - AHFUA!"

Do you think I should copyright it? :)

[crazyhorse691]

I know others have thanked you for your time and efforts in translating and posting articles. So, I will be unoriginal and thank you also.Excellent job.

[Panzerlied]

Thanks for the great work. It's nice to know we have a reliable source of information on this important situation. Wish we could rely 1/100th as much on the MSM!

[freedumb2003]

Thanks StJ for your hard work.

This is more important than many NorteAmericanos know.

[StJacques]

". . . It's nice to know we have a reliable source of information on this important situation. Wish we could rely 1/100th as much on the MSM!"

Panzer you have really zeroed in on my motivation to put up these translations. I am sick to my stomach of watching the MSM present López Obrador as a "Mexican Liberal." He is much, much more dangerous than that and the potential he and his followers represent for possibly pulling Mexico apart is more real, and poses a far greater threat to our national interest, in my opinion, than the most Americans realize. This is why I have been going directly "to the source" in the Mexican and Latin American media to get the finer details of what is going on so that we can keep an informed eye on the situation.

[StJacques]

Just a heads up for all of you.

In about an hour and a half from now I'm going to post another translation of an article that El Universal just put up on their web site. The PRD are donning "tin hats" and are claiming "cybernetic manipulation" of the vote by the Federal Electoral Institute. I'll ping you when I do.

I've got to take a break and eat first.

[freedumb2003]

We appreciate your work.

There is no onus on you to kill yourself to translate these things. Just do it as your available time and energy and desire dictate.

I was thinking it will be a smaller turnout -- but we will see. I remember the student protest/riots of a year or so ago.

In Monterrey and Guadalajara they will be pretty upset if the Zacalo is occupied by professional protesters from the Unions.

[freedumb2003]

I am sick to my stomach of watching the MSM present López Obrador as a "Mexican Liberal." He is much, much more dangerous than that and the potential he and his followers represent for possibly pulling Mexico apart is more real

Obragore is an unapologetic Hugo Chavez worshiper. It is so difficult to explain to people up here what the implications of an Obragore regime would be.

The good news is that the PAN looks like it will control Congress. But a lot of mischief can be launched from Los Pinos.

[BuglerTex]

what kind of police presence the national government can and does exercise in Mexico City

Thank you, I shall. As I said in another thread, at the communist rally for Cardenas some years ago, an army elite unit marched out very smartly in a drill right on the Zocalo just before it started, displayed their presence, and went back into the building. The Corps of Cadets couldn't have looked any better. These guys were all tall and armed well. They definitely did not look like the various other police and guards around town.

[California Patriot]

Good to know, thanks. The LA Times made it sound like all this favored the PRD. Their (extensive) coverage today is outrageously biased in favor of the leftists, no surprise. Strangely, they have a very sensible editorial on the situation.

[La Enchiladita]

Thank you SOOO much, for the postings (which I still need to catch up on), the pings and the genius keyword plan!

[conservative in nyc]

Cybernetic manipulation? That's really pushing it. As far as I know, every ballot in the election was a real paper one, and the PRD (and other parties) have copies the tally sheets and can add everything up themselves.

What could the evil hackers hacked into?

Thanks for the translations.

[La Enchiladita]

Hola! Que tal?
Me llama Alberto Manuel ObraGore,
And --- hijole! --- I am SORE!