Posted on 08/01/2006 4:57:12 AM PDT by rovenstinez
Mexico City residents arose Monday morning to an eerily altered downtown landscape, with some of the usual traffic patterns disrupted by the conversion of the historic Paseo de la Reforma from a heavily used transit thoroughfare to a five-mile-long scenic pedestrian mall better suited to casual strolls, cycling, makeshift soccer games and inline skating.
They also woke up to a sharply intensified political atmosphere. Presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador´s decision to literally set up camp along the Reforma/Juárez/Madero continuation from west of the National Auditorium to the Zócalo at once emboldened supporters of his demand for a recount of the disputed July 2 vote and elicited heavy criticism from his detractors.
(Excerpt) Read more at mexiconews.com.mx ...
Sore losers, like American Liberocrats.
Mexico is becoming Baja Florida.
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I hope our demoRATs don't become chavezistas after they lose the next election. If they arm themselves and take to the streets it could get real ugle....for them.
"Rememeber The AMLO!!"
Remember=Rememeberbur
Thanks for keeping us updated. I was reading in El Universal that AMLO has announced that he's planning more of these encampments in Mexico City; he's obviously trying to shut the whole place down.
I don't think the Dems can count on a large turn-out of ignorant unemployed people to come and support them. Well, they can get the usual Anti-Globalization Traveling Radicals Band and the Jesse Jackson Million Thug March crowd, but I don't think they'd have much support beyond that.
they have encampments in several cities of Mexico, They have a group camped out in front of Maximum Security in Toluca, State Capitol of the State of Mexico, some say the rights of the people were violated in a recent protest of campesinos who didn't want their land to be used for a new airport for Mexico City. Some police died in the melee, and video cameras at the protest had evidence of the leaders who incited the mob and beat the police to death.
I like that, worth remembering, I bet it shows up in Ann Coulters Column... Remember the AMLO. Thanks
So this is a coordinated movement all over Mexico?
One of the articles, btw, mentioned that people (workers at downtown jobs) who had taken the metro into Mexico were not allowed to get off at their downtown stops even though the encampment was not at that location. Police cars prevented them from leaving or crossing streets, and they had to literally run a long, out of the way route to get to their jobs.
What is the attitude of the Mexico City police? Are they complicit with AMLO?
Police it appears are going to do nothing, as the President of Mexico is NOT being asked to step in, much like Gov. Blanco did NOT call the White House when Katrina came to NOLA. The Governor of Mexico City, GDF, will ask Fox for help, then they will roll out the water cannons and clear the streets. AMLO is wanting a confrontation, and some blood, so the show can begin. YES, it is highly organized, it is all over Mexico, mainly in the south, and it is planned to cripple and hinder to the point that the government will count ballot by ballot, precint by precint, and see what cover up the IFE they think is hididng. The director of IFE was a close friend of Calderon, the business candidate. Much like the Democrats supposed that Gov JEb Bush of Florida was favoring his brother and tilting scales.
If you lost by .02% of the vote, would you want a recount?
Just curious.
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