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Caribbean-Latin America
Poll protesters block Mexico City
2006-08-01
Supporters of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who officially lost Mexico's presidential vote, have set up camps across the capital as they demand a poll recount in the disputed election. Lopez Obrador is reported to have spent the night outside in Mexico City's main Zocalo plaza with an estimated 500,000 protesters who had attended a rally on Sunday. Lopez Obrador earlier asked supporters of his Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) to set up camps along the city's Reforma boulevard as part of a campaign of civil disobedience to demand that a top electoral court orders a recount.
Is it time to suggest a partition? Will it turn out to be a quagmire?
I'll bet we don't have an exit strategy, do we? Damn that Bush!
The barrier could block most east-west traffic on one of the main arteries in the city that is home to 20 million people. "We hope that some day people will realise that we were right, and we needed to do this," protester Tirso Vicente told the Associated Press news agency.
Posted by:Fred

#6  Yes, Glineling, it is different. Here, so far, all we have is whining and lawsuits. In Mexico they have rallies designed to intimidate and disrupt--and I'd guess it will go farther than that shortly. I hold no brief for the alternative reality leftists here, but so far they've been peaceful.
Posted by: James   2006-08-01 17:12  

#5  "The voting will continue until we get the desired result."
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-08-01 15:38  

#4  Seems a bit more entertaining that what we went through out here in the other Washington, where Queen Chris beat Rossi best one out of three!
Posted by: USN, ret.   2006-08-01 14:11  

#3  This is communist way. We have seen same behavior by illegals here in US. I'm surprised the military hasn't stepped forward to squelsh this. May be that the generales think they'll be able to extract more payoffs from this clown.
Posted by: SOP35/Rat   2006-08-01 12:14  

#2  Any different than the whiny American left who keep alive their myth that the 2000 election was stolen, even though the NYT and Miami papers paid for a recount and found that indeed Bush won Florida.
Posted by: Glineling Slort8157   2006-08-01 09:25  

#1  Is this like the EU thing where they keep going until it comes out "right"?
Posted by: Thaque Ebbeth9552   2006-08-01 01:06  

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