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Lopez Obrador Supporters to Cathedral Bell : Porque No Te Callas

08:07 H | Topics: Activism - Mexico - Politics - Religion

Remember Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the self-proclaimed legitimate president elect of Mexico? Well yesterday after a rally in his support, Lopez-Obrador followers ran into Mexico City's main Roman Catholic cathedral, saying that church officials purposely rang the church bells earlier and louder than usual, in order to drown out the Lopez-Obrador rally.

Videos show the Obrador supporters running in the church screaming and jumping over pews that parishioners pushed in front of the oncoming crowd to prevent their entrance. The Sunday noon mass was slightly delayed because of the charge.

Apparently this is a tactic of Lopez Obrador's followers.

They have frequently interrupted services at the cathedral, chanting slogans against electoral fraud which they believe cost their candidate the July 2006 presidential elections.

Oh yeah and by the way, Obrador was talking about an important issue, oil.
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We are facing one of the nation's most critical moments," Lopez Obrador said, referring to declining oil production and the lack of refinery capacity at the state-run oil company Pemex that forces the country to import gasoline.
"This has created a dangerous situation of (energy) dependence," said Lopez Obrador. The money would also be used to increase drilling and modernize the country's petrochemical plants.

Via / International Herald Tribune and Univision News

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