Good God, what’s going on in Mexico? Looks like Mexico’s congressional tribunal was the scene of an knock-down, drag-out brawl as leftist politicians attempted to impede conservative President-elect Felipe Calderon’s inauguration. Pictures are worth a thousand words in this case.
Felipe Calderon’s inauguration as President of Mexico went through a grotesque event when “diputados” from the left and the right went to blows with each other in the congressional tribunal where the swearing in was going to take palce. The leftists’ objective was to impede the inauguration ceremony of Calderon. However, members of the PAN, Calderon’s party, blocked them with pushing and screaming, and finally both groups remained in the room, swearing that neither will leave.
This just makes me sad. I won’t pretend to be objective. I am angered at the fact that the Mexican left can’t catch a break because corruption is built into the system. And, I can identify with those who were so pissed they wanted to do something at the last minute (harken back to our own “democratic” elections), but unfortunately, after months of protest and other acts of civil disobedience, it may be time to call it quits.
Check out the video on El Universal.com.mx.
Via / El Confidencial
Image: Marcos Delgado
Just to clarify, it was the PAN legislators that stormed the tribune to prevent the PRD legislators from doing it. Then, the PRD legislators tried to occupy the area too, and fighting ensued.
Mexico is living the end of the Ancien Regime and the failure of the current institutions to reproduce power peacefully. A constitutional assembly should be called and the whole system re-engineered. A parliamentary system would be an improvement, since no party can win a majority in Congress under the present rules.
Thanks for the clarification. The source I cited is actually a rather conservative Spanish publication, so it doesn’t surprise me that the reporting was biased.
Lefties are all the same, whether in the United States or in Mexico, they always feel entitled to the position, and as such, they have a hard time letting go when they lose. This whole mess reminds me of this post.
I think it is fairly well documented that the PAN government in Mexico, with the PRI as a close ally, used the Executive and the Legislative branches, with the connivance of the Supreme Court President, to try to stop the PRD candidate from running.
Granted that the PRD candidate made many mistakes which may have cost him the race, but it is far from clear that it was a clean election. Actually, the Federal Electoral Tribunal’s ruling (http://www.trife.gob.mx/) reads like a menu of serious faults against the country’s electoral laws.
On the accusation about “We wuz robbed”, maybe HispanicPundit should take a look at the panoply of voter suppression techniques designed and implemented by the FL and OH secretaries of state during the 00 and 04 election, respectively. Then, let’s talk.
Saludos.
Thanks for proving my point DD.
HispanicPundit: As someone on the center-left I would hope that you could please refrain from generalizing everyone on the left as the same. Not everyone on the left agrees with the silly tactics taken by the PRDistas occupying the Congressional chambers. The left in Latin American represents a diverse range of ideas and this shown by its leaders who range from moderate (Bachelet and Lula) to populist (Chavez, whom I personally loathe) to extreme (Castro).
By the same token it would be unfair to equate all those on the right as capitalist pigs or racists. Right?
You are right, let me rephrase what I wrote above: “Lefties tend to demonstrate a unique behavior when losing elections, whether in the United States or in Mexico, many seem to feel entitled to the position, and as such, they have a hard time letting go when they lose – this is a stark difference to righties. More of this is explained here.
There, that better?
That wasn’t so bad, was it?
Thank you kindly for your clarification.