A DIRTY FRAME

The New York Post ^ | 04/27/05 | Ralph Peters

[smoothsailing]

THE United Kingdom is our crucial military ally. Australia, with its feisty love of liberty and strategic location, grows more important to us every day. Canada treasures the role of abused spouse. But no country is more important to our future than Mexico.

[MacDorcha]

Oil?

[prairiebreeze]

Very good article, thanks for posting it. I've never heard of Obrador, will send this out to my email list.

Ping.

[DancesWithBolsheviks]

I remember, June 2000, having such hope for Vicente Fox, Mexico, and the
Mexican people. I also remember when Mexico was listed as having 'over
120 million' people. Now I guess its only 'over 100 Million' as the article
states. Shame to see what has been squandered.

[Between the Lines]

Update.....

Mexico's Fox Fires Attorney General to Ease Crisis

President Vicente Fox fired his attorney general on Wednesday to try to end a crisis over obscure legal charges that threaten to knock Mexico's most popular politician out of 2006 presidential elections.

The move was a major victory for Mexico City's leftist mayor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who holds a clear lead in polls for the elections but would be blocked from running if he is found guilty in the case.

Backing down to intense pressure, Fox said fired Rafael Macedo, the attorney general who led the campaign to put Lopez Obrador on trial for contempt of court charges in a minor land dispute.

"My government will prevent no one from participating in the next federal election race," Fox said in a national television and radio address.

He said his new attorney general would thoroughly review the case against Lopez Obrador and "look to preserve the country's greatest political harmony within the limits of the law."

Lopez Obrador has accused Fox's government of pushing bogus legal charges to block his road to the presidential palace. The case has battered Fox's reputation at home and abroad.

Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans marched in silence through the capital last Sunday in support of Lopez Obrador, a feisty former Indian rights activists who promises to work for Mexico's poor if elected.

Fox made history when he ended 71 years of one-party rule at elections in 2000, but critics have accused him of betraying democracy by confronting the mayor.

Link: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8322106

[SoCalPol]

Check out the site Aztlan. These people have no respect
for America. They hate Israel, etc.
Living 15 miles for the largest border crossing in the
world and our state being swallowed by this type.
I see everyday what is happening.

[smoothsailing]

Thanks for the post,makes the story all the more interesting.

[JAWs]

I like Peters, but I think he's off on this one. There is the Raza movement which seeks a reconquest of California, Texas and the rest of the Southwest presumably through culturally swamping the region with Mexican Americans. I don't know how powerful they are, but they do exist.

[smoothsailing]

For me the border crisis is extremely dangerous to the US.

As I learn more, I look closer at the politics behind it.Fox really bugs me,so the article got me wondering.

Would a change of government in Mexico clamp down on Mexicans and others crossing the border.I just dont see how it could get worse than it is now.

I admit I know far less than I should,so hopefully I can learn from FReepers who have keener insight.

[okie01]

Would a change of government in Mexico clamp down on Mexicans and others crossing the border.I just dont see how it could get worse than it is now.

No. The pressure on our southern border will not be reduced until Mexico offers enough economic opportunity to keep its people at home.

In the meantime, the unofficial policy of any Mexican government will be to encourage illegal immigration.

[Petronski]

Better title:


A LOW DOWN DIRTY FRAME

[arasina]

A Low Down Dirty Stinkin' Frame!

[Petronski]

You got it girl!

[HowardDeanScream08]

Yeah, I've been hearing about this guy and what the Powers That Be in MeheeCo. are doing with him. It's no different than here. It's just here the kingmakers are a lot wealthier, have better attorneys, have a better handle on the media.

What's happening to this "dark horse" who wants to run against Fox is what happens when a real conservative runs in the Republican primary or a real liberal runs in the Democrat primary. They get hammered as "dangerous" or "radical" or something *threatening* to the tidy time we're all supposed to be having.

Obrador may not exactly be our cup of tea here, but a lot of Mexicans sure do like him. He's doing things, and he's trying to do more than Fox and Co. want him to. Good thing or bad thing? Not my call. I don't live in Mexico.

Interesting article, if not a little skewed.

[arasina]

I know. LOL (heh heh)

[July 4th]

And he isn't anti-business, either. Just anti-corruption.

In Mexico, aren't business and corruption indistinguishable?

[Peach]

Washington has been warned that Lopez Obrador is "another Hugo Chavez," the Venezuelan colonel who dresses up as Castro. It's a lie. Lopez Obrador is more of a cross between William Jennings Bryan and Huey Long, an "every man a king" kind of politician who puts at least a drumstick, if not an entire chicken, in every pot.

I am hoping it's the Democrats who are finding yet another politician to demonize and that Republicans aren't falling for it, but time will tell.

[GOPJ]

Your post is too thin. A few more paragraphs would be nice.

[Army Air Corps]

La Raza Unida is a Mexican-American version of Aryan Nations or the Black Panthers. They are a virulently racist organisation that holds ideas as goofy as those held by the SS (belief in racial superiority, racial purity, disdain for "lesser peoples", etc.).

[smoothsailing]

Try the link.