Tuesday, August 15, 2006

The Mexico Presidential election: a huge MEDIA BLACKOUT

UPDATE 2-Mexico leftist claims election recount proves fraud
"Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the leftist who claims he was robbed in the July 2 election, said the recount of 9 percent of ballot boxes was only half complete but inconsistencies from the original tallies already topped 100,000 votes."

Why the US media blackout? Because THIS is how you protest an election:
"Lopez Obrador's supporters have crippled central Mexico City for the past 12 days by setting up camps in the Zocalo and on the main boulevard that runs through its business district."

"Their campaign also has included blockading the stock market building, the headquarters of international banks and government offices, as well as throwing open highway toll gates. They blocked access to Mexico's main tax office on Friday."

"In the spirit of Gandhi and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we seek to make our voices heard," he (Obrador) wrote in Friday's New York Times."

Vox prediction: Obrador will win in the end (not that it will make any big difference to us).

- Vox

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