[StJacques]

Thank you for the ping Enterprise, I appreciate it. I have translated an article from a Mexican web site that updates this story giving the response of the PAN party, which obviously is negative. I posted it about two hours ago, you can find it at:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1672854/posts

I read an article in Spanish on the web site of Mexico City's El Universal newspaper earlier today giving the full details of the Univision interview mentioned in the linked article at the top of this thread. I believe this could mark the beginning of a dangerous downward spiral for Mexican politics because Lopez Obrador seems ready to tear the whole thing down if he doesn't win.

And let me give my assurance to anyone who may be in doubt, Calderon genuinely did win the election. UN observers (not that we trust them), European Union observers, other Latin American observers (they had to kick the Venezuelan observers out before the election), U.S. observers, and the press worldwide have all stated that the Mexican elections were conducted very fairly and honestly.

For anyone else who doesn't know, I have been tracking the post-election controversy in Mexico for the board and I have translated somewhere between 15 to 20 articles from Mexican and Latin American web sites over the past few weeks, since the July 2 election. You can track these down by going to the forum's search engine, doing a keyword search, and using the unique keyword -- STJTRANSLATION. You can get a good handle on what has been going down in Mexico from the viewpoint within the Mexican press.

[livius]

This is really stunning. I wonder if he honestly thinks he has enough support in Mexico to simply declare himself the winner and get the government turned over to him.

I believe this could mark the beginning of a dangerous downward spiral for Mexican politics because Lopez Obrador seems ready to tear the whole thing down if he doesn't win.

I hope you're not right, but his behavior is pretty amazing right now and it's hard to see what else he could be aiming for.

[Enterprise]

And thank you again. I believe you said some time ago that this could happen!

[Irish Eyes]

For anyone else who doesn't know, I have been tracking the post-election controversy in Mexico for the board and I have translated somewhere between 15 to 20 articles from Mexican and Latin American web sites over the past few weeks, since the July 2 election. You can track these down by going to the forum's search engine, doing a keyword search, and using the unique keyword -- STJTRANSLATION. You can get a good handle on what has been going down in Mexico from the viewpoint within the Mexican press.

Thanks for the information. Did the search, I had no idea that all this was happening.