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Posted on 08/20/2006 7:25:36 PM PDT by rovenstinez
Precinct reports of the Southern Most State of Mexico
Looks like PRD is still running behind.
Hopefully we have a clear winner, another neck to neck race won't be good for the Republic of Mexico.
Is there a separatist movement in Chiapas, or only Communists trying to take over the Mexican government?
The one running behind in this link, has already said he is going to challenge this election and demand a recount.
The Zapatista Movement was more a group of people seeking to give INDIANS rights, quite a bit of financial backing from liberals in Europe. Many in Chiapas were too afraid to go vote, as blood spills everything there is a change in government leaders. They resist change, have been hurt they think by the NAFTA treaty and many of these people have boycotted this election.
For more information about Chiapas, much appreciated?
A few weeks ago, the PRI and the PAN realized that if they didn't POOL there efforts, they would loose the election to the Peoples Workers Party PT. Partido Trabajo. So the PAN candidatee URGED on TV for his votes to be cast for the PRI. The Yellow candidate, who leans left, cried FOUL. He says that this is a violation of election law, and will go to the Electoral Board and have this election nulled if his friends of his ideology are not given the governorship.
.1% difference in voting is NOT good.
Having driven from Palénque, through Ocosingo to San Christobal de las Casas and Chamula, I can say that people live about like their Maya ancestors did 2000 years ago. People try to feed their families on corn grown right up to the doors of palapas on half hectare plots of land. Women walk along the paved highway with pots of water on their heads or bundles of firewood on their backs while their men stand around outside the hardware store in San Christoabal "looking for work", actually watching lucha libre on the TV in the window because there is no work, at least not for indios. NAFTA has hurt them all right, because imports have reduced the value of their crops - but not as badly as the social structure they live under.
An interesting note is that during the uprising in the 1990s not one foreigner was harmed. The reason being that foreigners were the only people who treated the Indians with any respect.
I've been there and I can honestly say that I don't see a just solution to the mess that doesn't involve the complete destruction of Maya culture as it survives today. And that won't come about peacefully because, as you say, they do resist change and from the end of the caste wars which lasted from the 1840s to the 1910s it has been in the interest for the Mexican government and those who support it that they not change. Think Northern Mississippi from the 1860s to the 1960s.
About half of the votes are in, and the Yellow Candidate aligned with the people encamped in the historic center of Mexico is pulling away in the lead. My guess is that these are the votes from the people way out in the corn fields, the first votes that came in were from the larger cities I would guess. What GRACE if the PRI candidate would concede with flare and support the guy even if he squeaks by. It might be a good omen for AMLO to recognize that other people DO believe in the instititions of the government that count ballots.
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Agreed - it leads to this:
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