A top aide to Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexico's leftwing presidential candidate, on Monday promised to incite widespread acts of "civil resistance" to protest the leftwing leader's narrow defeat at this month's presidential elections.
Manuel Camacho, one of Mr López Obrador's key strategists and a congressman for his Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), told the FT the idea was to "raise the cost for the government of maintaining its discriminative attitude" towards those who voted for the PRD on July 2.
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The controversy over Mexico's contested election is getting very little coverage in the US press.
The July 18 New York Times included another lengthy story on the after-effects of Ukraine's controversial 2005 election
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This ongoing coverage of alleged Ukrainian election fraud stands in sharp contrast to the scant coverage of alleged improper ballot counting in Mexico's recent election. Even Intense media coverage of the US Senate's recent immigration hearings ignored links between Mexico's denial of democracy and increased immigration to America. Why did protests in a distant country that little impacts America get broader and more sympathetic media attention than similar events in Mexico?
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Unfortunately what the American press does cover is at least 90% biased towards Calderon, many sources even naming him president elect. AMLO and his supporters are continuing to demand a vote by vote recount, which they state will take about 6 days. Both parties will be meeting with the Electoral Tribunal next week sometime.
But that's not all that is causing tempers to rise in Mexico. The wars between the drug cartels are getting worse and more out of control. Ex Congressman gunned down in Acapulco
And in the southern state of Oaxaca, a months long strike by the teacher's union has cost the city and citizens at least 50 million dollars in lost revenues and shows no signs of ending.
The popular Guelaguetza, a centuries old tradition was cancelled amid violence. The teachers still striking are getting more radical and have basically taken over the historic district. Parents are furious, over the lost days of school and the strong arm techniques of the teachers, especially the solicitation of bribes for the issuance of school certificates.
OAXACA, Mexico -- Protesters have taken over the center of folkloric Oaxaca, making tourists show identification at makeshift checkpoints, smashing the windows of quaint hotels and spray-painting revolutionary slogans. Police are nowhere in sight.
One doesn't need to wear a tinfoil sombrero to wonder what the connections are between the disputed elections, the poserful and corrupt teachers union, and the role of Elba Esther Gordillo in the mix.
For those so inclined, Calderon and Religion