Runner-Up in Mexico Discounts Election

Mexico's leftist presidential candidate said Thursday that he would never recognize the results of the election he said he lost by fraud, and Catholic bishops called for a week of prayer to heal the divisions widened by the bitter dispute.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador implied that the country could plunge into instability if courts don't order a vote-by-vote recount. His supporters demonstrated outside an airline in the latest in a series of blockades and protests.

Lopez Obrador lost the July 2 election to conservative ruling-party candidate Felipe Calderon by less than 0.6 percent, according to official vote tallies. He has called for a manual recount of all ballots and a campaign of civil disobedience.

``The election for me is illegitimate,'' Lopez Obrador said in a radio interview. ``I am not going to recognize the results of a fraudulent election.''

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democracy! True believers in power to the people! True believers in peace and justice!

You can't tell me that Calderon represents the majority of Mexicans--represents the vast poor, brown population that has been so impoverished and disregarded by the Bush ass-kissing Foxes and Calderons and global corporate predators. I don't believe it. They no more represent the Mexican people than Bush represents us!

I only hope that we can be inspired by this democracy movement, and get up off the ground, and demand transparent elections and demand justice, as they are doing.

They suffered a stolen election in 1988. They know what it's like. And they've recovered from it, and determined that it will not be done again.

Learn, learn, North America! We can have democracy, too! We can have a just and good government, too!

The answer to the Iraq War, and the answer to the widening Mideast war that now threatens, and the answer to the brutish injustice of the Bush junta against us, and against others, is TRANSPARENT ELECTIONS!

that the years of poverty and corruption have pushed our southern neighbors to the brink.
They realize if they don't fight back...they will cease to exist.
They marched in the streets of our country, and now they march in the streets of their own.
It is ironic that the illegal alien strawman that Bush created has set up this scenario.
With the calls for cutting off border crossing, the Mexican people have to fight, or they will die.
They don't have any social safety nets in Mexico. The wealth is concentrated at the top.
If there aren't jobs there, they don't work, they don't eat.
Food stamps are non-existent.
Now, the US is debating cutting off their only lifeline at the border.
They realize that their ONLY option is take their country back out of the hands of the overlords.
Even if they die trying.
There isn't any other choice. They will die anyway.