Posted on 08/06/2006 2:13:25 PM PDT by 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 were waiting for his return and a speech that would determine the movement's future.
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Could be a was on the southern border?
Look for the same in your home town if illegal immigration is not curbed very soon.
Been trying to tell people that on here, but not well received.
Come on man, mexico isn't a socialist state like its northern neighbor.
Now if only Mexico would legislate heavily enough against the formation of such traffic-blocking human walls, especially given how the USA is finally putting a wall on its Southern border to pressure Mexico to finally embrace its own pro-entrepreneurial reformers (like Felipe Calderon, who could make life less cushy for Mexican oligarchs like telecommunications monopolist Carlos Slim).
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