nice to know they CARE!
López Obrador maintains that in 173 of 300 voting districts, the balloting was riddled with fraud and tabulation errors.
At stake is not just Mexico's presidency, but also the possibility of wider protests by López Obrador's supporters.
This week's action caused major traffic gridlock, millions of pesos in losses for businesses and headaches for residents. But as officials of Lopez Obrador's leftist Revolutionary Democratic Party met Friday night to strategize, some predicted more serious action, including blockades of highways, bridges, ports, airports and government buildings.
from 8/4 a recount was being consiedered
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003176696_mexvote05.htm they decided on a 10% recount for now. 8/8
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, didn't sound like the delusional would-be Messiah his opponents portray. He sounded like a confident, stubborn man who truly believes he was robbed of victory in the July 2 election and intends to fight to the bitter end. Maybe beyond.
Official returns showed leftist López Obrador losing to the candidate of the right, Felipe Calderón, by a margin of 0.6 percent. López Obrador seemed a sure winner, according to exit polls, and he alleged widespread fraud in the vote count
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/07/AR2006080701014.html I remember that article often quoted about EXIT polls -written by a right winger- when he
early on after our fradulent elctions, was accusing the
media of lying about them- He used Mexico as an example of his claim that EXIT polls had never been wrong. (Now we know they have never been wrong except in cases of MASSIVE FRAUD-duh)
López Obrador's... candidacy was a historic opportunity to give the disenfranchised majority a real voice for the first time.
His message has had tremendous resonance. Mexico is riven by many fractures -- rich vs. poor, white vs. indigenous, the relatively affluent north vs. the desperately impoverished south. ...Calderón appealed to the wealthy, the middle class and the upwardly mobile.... López Obrador appealed to poor Mexicans who believed the deck was stacked against them and to better-off voters who agreed with his ideology.
and of course our own Bu**SH** regime backed and assisted the one that appealed to the more well off.