Mexico Leftists target Banks In Protest

Yahoo News ^ | August 9, 2006 | rovenstinez

[rovenstinez]

Protesters surrounded Mexico City offices of U.S.-based Citigroup's Mexican unit Banamex, the Bancomer bank owned by Spain's BBVA and the British giant HSBC They sat on the ground around the buildings and vowed to block access for several hours.

[rovenstinez]

President Fox said he would in NO WAY intervene, that it is the right of Mexicans guaranteed in the Constitution to display their discontent with elected officials in ways that disrupt normal life.

[VeniVidiVici]

"Banamex is really Citigroup, a foreign bank that ransacks the country," Fernandez said on Wednesday. "It took more than 10 percent of the bank rescue."

I can feel this guy's pain over foreigners ransacking one's country.

[gondramB]

>>President Fox said he would in NO WAY intervene, that it is the right of Mexicans guaranteed in the Constitution to display their discontent with elected officials in ways that disrupt normal life.<<

As long as they are peaceful, that's the right thing to do.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

To commies, banks are just instruments of evil capitalists feeding off the labor of the proletariat. They don't need no stinking money.

[azhenfud]

Just ransacking the Mexicans Mexicans are too lazy to ransack.

[gondramB]

>>To commies, banks are just instruments of evil capitalists feeding off the labor of the proletariat. They don't need no stinking money.<<

Yeah..what a stupid thing to shut down. The rich people will just do their banking electronically - its the poor people who need physical bank access most.