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Coup D'Etat in Mexico?
LA Times ^
| August 30, 2006
| Unsigned
Posted on 08/30/2006 7:50:22 AM PDT by .cnI redruM
The votes have been counted yet again, but the losing presidential candidate is threatening the peace by failing to recognize the result.
A COUP D'ETAT IS BREWING in Mexico. Even as he runs out of legal ways to challenge the July 2 presidential election results, the contest's sore loser, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, is planning to proclaim himself president and establish a parallel "people's government" on the national Day of Independence, Sept. 16.
The defiance by the leftist former mayor of Mexico City comes after a unanimous ruling Monday by the nation's top electoral tribunal, which rejected claims filed by Lopez Obrador's party of massive fraud. Lopez Obrador, who finished second in the balloting, has been waging an increasingly desperate campaign to have the election nullified. The independent panel of seven electoral justices reviewed 9% of polling places where it had reason to suspect error, and it threw out tens of thousands of ballots.
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Indeed, if there is any threat to democracy in Mexico, it is Lopez Obrador and his sense of entitlement.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2good2btrue; elections; obragore; protests
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Another leftist who does what he does all for the good of "the people."
To: .cnI redruM
There are no shortages of stone walls in Mexico against which these insurrectionists can be stood up and shot.
ObraGore had better arm himself right quick. Mexican politics ain't exactly high tea and watercress sandwiches.
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posted on
08/30/2006 7:52:19 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(Living His life abundantly.)
To: Petronski
AMLO has way too big an ego to go away quietly.
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posted on
08/30/2006 7:54:37 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(The investigation was a hoax. Fitz should be brought up on charges.)
To: Petronski
He should've been arrested three weeks ago.
To: .cnI redruM
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posted on
08/30/2006 7:56:02 AM PDT
by
wideawake
("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
To: .cnI redruM
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posted on
08/30/2006 7:57:32 AM PDT
by
pissant
To: Petronski
This will cause another flood at the border.
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posted on
08/30/2006 7:58:24 AM PDT
by
steve8714
(It's a Murray Head weekend!)
To: .cnI redruM
That's just wonderful. An unstable Gummint not only on our border but with substantial overflow already throughout our country. Can they avoid civil war? If they descend into civil war we will be involved.
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posted on
08/30/2006 7:59:08 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: pissant
And a swollen cabeza to fill it, as well.
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posted on
08/30/2006 7:59:25 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(The investigation was a hoax. Fitz should be brought up on charges.)
To: .cnI redruM
They guy must be getting advice from Algore.
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posted on
08/30/2006 7:59:50 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(There are 3 kinds of people: those who can count & those who can't.)
To: .cnI redruM
This is the type of thing that could spark off a civil war in Mexico, pitting the more prosperous north verus the poor south.
To: RightWhale
It could become like the Kurd problem in Southeast Turkey. Oh, joy!
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posted on
08/30/2006 8:00:08 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(The investigation was a hoax. Fitz should be brought up on charges.)
To: RayChuang88
Maybe the more prosperous North will succeed and dare AMLO to march up there and stop it.
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posted on
08/30/2006 8:01:01 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(The investigation was a hoax. Fitz should be brought up on charges.)
To: .cnI redruM
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posted on
08/30/2006 8:01:26 AM PDT
by
pissant
To: pissant
Pobre AMLO
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posted on
08/30/2006 8:01:58 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(The investigation was a hoax. Fitz should be brought up on charges.)
To: .cnI redruM
Yeah, there are structural similarities.
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posted on
08/30/2006 8:02:08 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: .cnI redruM
A coup in Mexico? Wow, that's never happend before......../s
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posted on
08/30/2006 8:02:13 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Is Castro dead yet?........)
To: pissant
All hat, no cows?...........
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posted on
08/30/2006 8:02:47 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Is Castro dead yet?........)
To: Red Badger
El Cinco de Septiembre?
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posted on
08/30/2006 8:03:12 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(The investigation was a hoax. Fitz should be brought up on charges.)
Mexican army has everything under control.
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posted on
08/30/2006 8:03:41 AM PDT
by
evets
(beer)
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