Mexico: Protests as right claims poll win despite fraud

Mexico: Protests as right claims poll win despite fraud
Sunday, July 8, 2012
By Lourdes Garcia Larque

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These include widespread vote buying, destruction of ballots, early closure of voting centres in municipalities where the progressive party had a clear majority, ballot stuffing, discrepancies between the results published at ballot centres and the official tally, intimidation and even the assassination of Morena and PRD representatives.
Lopez Obrador's campaign coordinator in the state of Nuevo Leon was among those assassinated.

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The highly monopolised Mexican media played an important role in defining this election. Political commentator Denisse Dresser highlighted the role of the two major TV outlets in “creating” Pena Nieto as a candidate by granting him a pervasive presence in the news and presenting him more as a character from a soap opera than a politician.

The media highlighted Pena Nieto's marriage to a Mexican TV actress, his youthful looks and called him “the Latin American response to David Beckham”. An analysis of how Pena Nieto governed the state of Mexico was ignored.

The Miguel Agustin Pro Juárez Human Rights Centre has reported how Pena Nieto, as State of Mexico governor, was responsible for violent repression in San Salvador Atenco in 2006. In this infamous incident, more than 2000 armed members of the state security forces atttacked the unarmed civil population, resulting in 47 women being brutally tortured, many of who were sexually abused, and a young boy was killed.

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http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/51589