Blogging the democratic revolution
Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon at a funeral for an assassinated official Source: Notimex, via Yahoo! Mexico Felipe Calderon is determined to take back his country. His war parallels that which the U.S. is fighting for Iraq’s freedom but he doesn’t have the luxury of fighting it in another country. He’s fighting the same caliber of thugs the U.S. troops are fighting in Iraq. They are gangsters, they are thugs, they traffic in contraband and they behead their victims. They are as vile as anything Mexico has ever known and world class in the beastliness, every bit a match for Sadr’s…
In 1938, when President Lazaro Cardenas nationalized the oil industry in Mexico, everyone said it was the right move. After all, there were some pretty gamy capitalists from the U.S., Britain, France and Spain operating in the country, and getting them out and creating a national oil company, even if it meant expropriations, seemed like a good idea at the time. Today, amid a global oil boom, Mexico can barely keep up with its usual production, and it certainly can produce no additional oil or other energy. It now actually imports natural gas from the U.S., and though it is…
A procession to honor Our Lady of Guadalupe in Palm Springs Source: The Desert Sun At this time of year, millions of people participate in processions like this across the American hemisphere, an event that unites two American continents, Spain and the Philippines. On or around Dec. 10, millions will march for the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. No, it’s not just a Mexican celebration, although the miracle it commemorates happened near Mexico City in 1517. It’s meant to unite the continent. This procession, pictured here, happened the other day in Palm Springs. It’s worth considering in the age…
Scenes from Mexico’s Congress Source: El Universal, via StJacques at Free Republic Mexican Congress has opened, and supporters of failed presidential candidate, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the ridiculous little man who could not take defeat like and man, and instead inaugurated himself president last week, are determined to not allow real electoral winner, Felipe Calderon, take office. It’s actually a constitutional requirement that he take office physically and these clowns and bozos – who are defying the will of 44 million Mexican voters – are determined to physically prevent that from happening. They want the second-place finisher to take office…
After putting Mexico through a summer of turmoil and protests over a presidential electoral defeat he could not bring himself to accept, all I can say is: Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador Source: AP, via VOA Look …. at that …. ridiculous … little … man. He’s like the little man on the wedding cake! Yesterday, failed Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador inaugurated himself “president” in a bid to be seen as Mexico’s legitimate elected president. He lost, of course, and this grandiose gesture is nothing more than his own personal fantasy. He looks like Gilligan up there, in…
U.S.-Mexico border walk, near San Diego and Tijuana Source: Alex Jones, via Dan Watman Even if you support the U.S. border fence with Mexico, you cannot help but feel deeply saddened by the very idea of a wall going up between two close nations whose citizens’ lives and cultures overlap eternally. A high Stalag-style fence to keep “intruders” out is a disturbing specter between friends Mexico and the U.S. It’s an ugly intrusion and an artificial marker of otherness. Sure it may be in the name of sovereignty, but it comes at the cost of unity. The concept of a…
Police scene after the bomb attack on Mexico’s electoral authority Source: Reuters, via Yahoo! News Today, violent thugs launched a new attack directed explicitly at Mexico’s democracy. Someone doesn’t like the results of Mexico’s elections and is trying to destroy Mexico’s democracy, not through the power of reasoned ideas, but by blowing things up. That’s his solution. Two new bombs went off in Ixtapa, hours before the arrival of President-elect Felipe Calderon who had been planning to take a few days off. Clearly, some leftwing terrorist barbarians know Calderon’s schedule and are willing to make terror attacks based on it.…
Violence in Oaxaca, on Tuesday Source: Agencia EFE Venezuela dictator Hugo Chavez’s fingerprints are all over the leftist violence and insurrection going on in Oaxaca, Mexico right now. That’s not my conjecture but what’s running in the mainstream Mexican press. Like here. The past weekend, President Vicente Fox sent in the troops to the troubled region, where Zapatista ‘Otra Campagna’ far-leftists are battling PRI dinosaur leftists. It began as a teachers’ strike for higher wages but now has turned into a full blown insurrection, with neither group willing to give an inch. President Vicente Fox (of the center-right PAN party)…
They’re on something like Round 28 at the United Nations for the Security Council seat and pretty much getting nowhere. The deadlock continues to show the same wretched numbers, with Hugo Chavez at about 78 votes and Guatemala at about 108 votes, more or less. Same old score, round after round. Mexico, however, as it often does, said just the right thing, telling Chavez to throw in the towel, it was sick of his shenanigans, trying to hold the UN hostage over its little proxy games it claims to play with the U.S., when in reality, Venezuela’s contest is with…
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, still refusing to concede the July 2 election Source: Agencia EFE, via Yahoo! Mexico A Spanish newspaper today warned that Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who refuses to concede the election he lost last July 2, is gravely abusing not only Mexico’s democracy, but his own political viability and his left cause itself. El Pais writes that Lopez Obrador is doing incalculable damage to Mexico’s institutions, his prospects as a future candidate and that this refusal to budge will likely drag the progressive cause into oblivion. AMLO, the paper writes, is increasingly is “a prisoner of his…
Remember Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador? The Obragore of Mexico? Today Mexico’s election arbitrators told him to get lost. Mexico’s electoral tribunal making its ruling on July 2’s election Source: AFP, via Yahoo! News Today the Mexican electoral tribunal ruled that there was no cheating in Mexico’s July 2 presidential election, and all of his 300-plus claims of irregularities were baseless. And that means free-market Felipe Calderon has won the presidential election and will take office in December. Felipe Calderon speaks at a press conference after his victory is certified Source: AFP, via Yahoo! News So much for the AMLO tent…
There’s a new U.S. development on the horizon that’s coming on us like a Singapore sunrise – which is to say, fast. Small towns in America are rebelling against unchecked immigration, which has spread well past the big cities like Los Angeles and deep into the small towns of America. Tiny Hazleton, Pennsylvania got itself a slew of lawsuits from leftwing lawyers like the American Civil Liberties Union for passing some of the toughest anti-illegal immigration muncipal laws in the country. The small city, population 31,000, made English its official language, vowed to fine anyone who rents flophouses to illlegals,…
Do my eyes deceive me? The most leftwing alternative-media newspaper, SFWeekly, in the U.S.’ most leftwing alternative city, San Francisco, has given one heck of a thrashing to the world’s most leftwing alternative Sandalista nuisance group, Global Exchange. The leftwing newspaper’s charge? Rampant Sandalista meddling! SFWeekly is laying it on thick against the leftwing “revolutionary” tourism group, led by Medea Benjamin, whose other group, Code Pink, famously photoshopped one of the Iranian freedom babes seen on this site here into a war protestor, which she was not. The alt-media newspaper warns that Global Exchange is spreading LIES about the Mexican…
…and anti-democratic leaders. Maybe it’s a pirate thing? Boli-Nica has some intriguing observations in a neat little photoessay here.
Ah, NAFTA, and the glories of free trade. The economies of the U.S., Canada and Mexico have all increased threefold since that first shot against tyranny was fired with that alliance on New Year’s Day in 1994. There’s is nothing more impressive than free trade. Or here’s another way of looking at it.
Supporters of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in another protest. Source: The Scotsman Defeated Mexican presidential candidate, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, is not going down without a fight. He refuses to accept the results of the July 2 election. It was a hard fought presidential race and he lost by a narrow margin, which has got to be tough, and now he is charging wholesale fraud in a desperate effort to turn the result his way. Knowing his peje character, it’s probably not surprising that he would react this way. A peje is a barracuda-like fish that swims around in AMLO’s…
Boli-Nica at Boli-Nica blog has a humdinger of an item about how the Mexican Internet and all its youthful users have roared into life, slamming Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and all his absurd efforts to derail Mexico’s hard-won democracy. Among other things, the Mexican Internet-os are deriding AMLO for failing to learn English! They’re sending e-mails out, setting up Web sites at lightening speed to make fun of the guy and in a less classy move, some are hacking into AMLO’s site, re-directing it to a less flattering one. They are photoshopping AMLO like crazy and making mean little YouTubes…
Supporters of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gather to protest in Mexico City Source: El Universal Leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who lost Mexico’s July 2 presidential election by a narrow margin, has brought his supporters to the streets in a bid to overturn the election, on claims of fraud. The AMLO party, PRD, has yet to substantiate its claim that the election has been conducted in any way other than exemplarily. Observers from the European Union and other places have said it was clean. I was in Tijuana for the election and the AMLO party (PRD) observer also…
Mexico’s next president, Felipe Calderon Source: Agencia EFE, via Yahoo! Mexico Free-Market Felipe Calderon wins the race Source: El Universal Continued from this earlier Publius Pundit post here. El Universal has the final count here, along with AMLO’s statement that he won’t accept the result. Here we go again! It’s just like Monday! Mexican markets are going hog wild with happiness! Boli-Nica has an interesting essay on the election here and the need to pay attention to Mexico, here. Miami Herald is reporting that Mexico’s election agency is taking a lot of heat from AMLO people who don’t like the…
AMLO’s supporters out demonstrating in Mexico City Source: El Universal (Mexico) There’s no news link, just a wire report that’s not out on the Internet yet. AMLO is leading in the Mexican presidential election official count with 35% of the polling stations officially counted already. The first “quick count” results said that Felipe Calderon had won. Now, the PREP, or summary, results, which are being tallied now, say that AMLO is in the lead – and that lead is pretty big, three percentage points with 50% of the ballots officially counted. (Update: It’s diminishing to 2.42% with 64% of the…
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the Mexico’s leftist presidential candidate, wants a vote-by-vote recount and has vowed to call street protests to back up his claim to victory if the numbers don’t turn out in his favor. A colored revoluci????n. MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s left-wing presidential candidate wants every single vote recounted and is threatening to call street protests as he fights an election result giving a razor-thin victory to his conservative rival. Senior aides to Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a combative former mayor of Mexico City, said on Tuesday they want a recount of Sunday’s tight election to include…
Felipe Calderon and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador Source: Reuters, via Yahoo! I drove to Tijuana today, the city in the greater metropolis of 4 million on the farthest northwest corner of Mexico, to witness one tiny piece of the most momentous presidential election of the year – Mexico’s. Seventy-one million Mexicans were qualified to vote, and based on the scene here in Tijuana, they took it seriously. Everyone voted. Many of those who forgot to register to vote from the consulates in the U.S. drove to Tijuana to vote – and there were polling stations right over on the other…
Boz at Bloggings by Boz did something a little different this week and focused on the biggest election in the hemisphere, Mexico’s, which will be held this Sunday. He’s got the final polls and lots of bullet-point analysis on the how that race is going. Want to know who is most likely to win in Mexico this weekend – a commie caudillo, or a free marketer? Go see what Boz has here. Meanwhile, Jonathan at the excellent Business & Politics in Bolivia has the final polls and analysis of the autonomy referendum which will be a turning point for Bolivia,…
Earlier this week, Mexico’s election board nixed some campaign ads from the conservative PAN party as too fear-mongering, for their warnings about the danger of electing leftist PRD candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador president of Mexico. Election day is July 2 in Mexico. The ads compared Lopez Obrador to Hugo Chavez, with big pictures of Chavez, Fidel Castro and Evo Morales, warning of the danger of populism. The ads were nixed from government-regulated television, but they’ve since gotten out onto the Internet, via YouTubes, and now everyone can look at them, and see for themselves. Miguel has found the links…