Posted on 04/09/2005 7:22:57 PM PDT by kellynla
Five years ago, Vicente Fox became the first opposition candidate to win a Mexican presidential election, ending the dictatorial 71-year rule of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). But his achievement has been undermined by the Mexican Congress' vote this week to strip Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of his immunity, a move that could open the way for Lopez Obrador's arrest and block the candidacy he announced earlier in the day for the 2006 presidential race.
Lopez Obrador has been charged with ignoring a court order to halt construction of an access road to a private hospital. But his indictment is less about the rule of law, as Fox has piously claimed, than it is about kicking a popular, left-wing front-runner out of the presidential race.
Nationwide opinion polls for the 2006 elections show Lopez Obrador leading by as much as 10 points. But by law, no one facing a criminal trial can run for president.
A member of the Democratic Revolutionary Party, Lopez Obrador is clearly the wrong man for the presidency. He is a demagogue who has fought reforms for more open government. His economic policies consist of public works projects and handouts to the poor. He shouldn't have broken the law.
But his prosecution seem hypocritical considering the government has turned a blind eye to lawbreakers in both the PRI and Fox's own National Action Party. Mexico has enjoyed years of stability since its mid-1990s financial meltdown. Now with Lopez Obrador brazenly calling on his supporters to protest in the streets instead of work within established institutions, that steadiness may now be at risk.
"Presidente Jorge Bush, deport the illegals! Ike did it, so can you!"
Bush doesn't have the nads to stand up to Fox. Bush is all hat.
Eisenhower was a president who didn't appear to take much from anybody, least of all from hostile foreign governments.
April 5, 2005 ... Witnessing with our own eyes what is going on at the border has really been mind-boggling. Unless you see it for yourself down here you would never believe it. The local media reports some of what actually transpires on the border here but it never reaches the interior of our country and the majority of our citizens. In plain language we are being invaded, not by armies, but by literally thousands of illegal aliens every single day of the year. The Border Patrol doesn’t even catch half of the people that come across and they catch an unbelievable number of them. I’ve heard the number 1 in 4 that come through. When they do catch them they send them back into Mexico where they try again the next day. The BP receive hundreds of calls daily from citizens reporting illegals along the highway, in the border towns, on private property, on public property, at their homes asking for and in some cases demanding food and water. I hear they don’t have half the manpower they need so a lot of calls go unanswered Of the hundreds arrested in March in this area alone the newspaper reported 20% of them had criminal records.
The next president of Mexico should be Maria Asuncion Aramburuzabala, one of Mexico's richest and a sharp businesswomen.
Seriously. My limited googling finds that she believes that Mexico's problems should be solved in Mexico. It is the ruling class, the rich, etc. responsibility to allow it to happen.
Not as important but important nonetheless is, she is married to a close friend of President Bush.
And apparently the "not so poor" as well. In Mexico, the poor, and even much of what middle class exists, do not go to private hospitals
The Republic of Mexico is a rogue nation and an enemy of the U.S. By its continual assistance to illegal aleins who violate our borders it has signalled its resolve to retake the American southwest.
I don't care who is running Mexico as long as they recognize the sanctity of our borders.
I'd vote for Lopez Obrador in a nano-second. At least he is building roads to hospitals in Mexico and not shipping the poor, the middle-class and the wealthy to our border hospitals.
Just from the fines from the employers of illegals in my town (Napa) alone the Feds could balance the budget.
been saying this same thing for years only to hear that it would be unfair to hold employers acountable.
That line is b.s., the gubmnt wants the cheep labour.
Mexico's problems are insoluble.
We need a contingency plan for occupation.
Corruption is so much a part of Mexican lives, is it any wonder that the border cities are as corrupt as a TJ policehouse next door to a TJ whorehouse, and border states in the US are becoming like so many mutations of the Mexican government.
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