During their 20th Quadrennial Convention yesterday, delegates of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union called for a complete and immediate recount of all the votes cast for President in Mexico’s July 2, 2006 national elections. According to a press release distributed yesterday:

RWDSU President Stuart Appelbaum said, the RWDSU represents many workers who are immigrants from Mexico and many of these joined with almost 40 million other Mexicans to vote in the July 2, 2006 elections to choose a new President and Legislature. The RWDSU is a democratic trade union that supports the will of the Mexican people to choose through free elections their representatives in government just as it supports the right of all peoples around the world to democratically elect their own leaders.

I’m not sure how much influence or pressure such a solidarity statement has or will has but it just goes to show how intertwined lives in the U.S. are with Mexican politics.