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Lopez Obrador to Spanish President: Butt Out of Mexico
10:31 am By Maegan La Mala · Controversia| Latin America| Politics| Spain| World| mexico · 2 Comments
4 Aug 2008
Remember Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the defeated candidate for the Mexican presidency and self-proclaimed “legitimate president”? Well he’s still around and while he isn’t the actual president, he’s getting involved in policy as if he were one. AMLO’s telling Spanish president Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero to butt out of Mexican issues, after the prez showed interest in talks of energy reform in Mexico, particularly the privatization of the oil industry.
AMLO says that recent proposals by the PAN ruling party to privatize petroleum will be met with great public resistance because
“…we don’t want foreign masters! The only master here is the Mexican people!”
To the Spanish president — who is visiting Mexico for a meeting with Mexican president Felipe Calderon — AMLO had a curt message:
“They [the Spaniards] shouldn’t get involved. I would tell Rodríguez Zapatero to stop sticking his nose in Mexico…”
AMLO, on a tour of 70 Mexican cities, rounded off his speeches with an ominous message about the dangers of privatization of oil, saying that if it happens “it will be very difficult to get it back. We don’t want to be a colony.”
It’s a bit strange to hear a leftist would-be leader complaining about the Latin American left’s BFF in Europe, Zapatero, but the fact is that the bad blood goes back at least a year. Back in July of last year, AMLO’s camp expressed “repudiation” for a visit from Zapatero because they still hadn’t forgiven him for congratulating Calderon on his victory before all the votes were counted.
Via / La Jornada
López Obrador is back with “zero negotiation”
1:21 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Controversia| Politics| mexico · Comments Off
2 Jul 2007
It’s not like he really went anywhere, but Andres Manuel López Obrador, the controversial leftist candidate defeated in Mexico’s very controversial presidential elections is back on the scene. He and his followers are marking the one-year anniversary of the elections by taking to the streets of Mexico City to protest President Felipe Calderon’s presidency:
The march ended with a speech by López Obrador in the Zócalo, center of the Mexican capital, in which the leader of the PRD asked that the deputies and senators of the opposition united and reject the fiscal reform proposed by government, according to Mexican Daily El Universal.“It must be understood that we are opposing just to oppose. The right thing to do in our case is to not adhere to whatever the right-wing government’s policies are. Zero negotiation,” he said.
While “zero negotiation” may be his policy, but AMLO was quickly forced to end his protest of the elections when Mexico City’s citizens began complaining of all the congestion his “plantones” were causing. As for his attempts at a “parallel government”, I’d like to know how that’s going.
Via / 20 Minutos
Mexican Left: Frida belongs to us
11:08 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Arts| Controversia| Politics| mexico · 2 Comments
21 Jun 2007
A one hundred year retrospective of the life and art of Frida Kahlo at Mexico City’s Palacio de Bellas Artes was the site of political unrest yesterday, as supporters of leftist ex-candidate for the Mexican presidency, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (referred to by his supporters as the “legitimate President of Mexico) gathered to protest the arrival of President Felipe Calderón and his guests. Calderón and a slew of his cronies, among them some celebrities, were attending a special event in honor of the Kahlo exhibit and were the subject of insults as they entered. Mexico City’s La Jornada paints an excellent picture of how things played out:
The biggest examples of aggression happened on the East side of the building, next to the Alameda Central park and at one of the entrances in which the protestors alternated between chants against the President and in favor of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and insults towards those who were going in: “¡lambiscones!” “¡cucarachas!” y “¡lamehuevos del espurio!”
Thousands march to protest tortilla prices
12:19 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Food| mexico · Comments Off
1 Feb 2007
The anger felt by Mexicans for the past few weeks over the skyrocketing price of tortillas reached a boiling point yesterday, when over 75,000 people took to the streets in Mexico City to demand that the government do something about the crisis:
During Wednesday’s march, protesters carried one banner that read “Calderon stole the elections, and now he’s stealing the tortillas!” Others waved handfuls of the flat corn disks and chanted “Tortillas si, Pan no!” a play on the initials of Calderon’s National Action Party, the PAN, which also means “bread” in Spanish.In a press statement, Calderon’s office said the president shares the protesters’ concerns and pledged to “continue taking all necessary actions to maintain price stability for basic goods and services, (and) punish all types of hoarding and speculation in the markets.”
Lopez Obrador gets a TV show, calls president a dummy
7:06 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Politics| TV| mexico · 3 Comments
5 Jan 2007
As we’ve seen over the past several months, leftist ex-candidate for the Mexican presidency Andrés Manuel López Obrador doesn’t take defeat (or in the opinion of some, a stolen election) well. More evidence that AMLO isn’t even close to giving up and is serious about his “legitimate government” is his new project — television.
According to 20 Minutos, AMLO’s show will be on Mexican television network TV Azteca weekly and will be directed by Mexican filmmaker Luis Mandoki.
“The objective is that it be known everywhere what we are doing and [on the show] we are going to tell it like it is. There we’ll also talk about this usurper government and of the dummy president,” said the head of the leftist party.
Clearly not taking cues from Al Gore, AMLO’s presidential campaign site has recently become his “legitimate government” website, in which he outlines detailed plans — including budgets — for the way publics funds are to be spent over the coming year. As crushed as I was to see AMLO defeated, I just don’t get this, and I mean that quite literally: how can he implement this when he’s not in power? And since I don’t live in Mexico anymore I can’t know what this looks like from there, but from here is seems like he’s going a bit batty. Am I missing something?
Via / 20 Minutos
Calderón sworn in as new President of Mexico
12:42 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Politics| mexico · Comments Off
1 Dec 2006
After months of struggle and a recent physical confrontation, leftist politicians and citizens have lost the battle to challenge the legitimacy of Felipe Calderón’s presidential win. At 9:47 this morning Mexico City time, Calderón was sworn in with outgoing President and political ally Vicente Fox at his side, but not without controversy. Apparently there was a repeat of what happened in the Congressional Tribunal last week, this time in the Cámara de Diputados:
The ceremony was marked by tension, as previously dozens of pro-government and leftist legislators went head to head with insults and pushing in the Cámara de Diputados.The brawl, in which there were also a few isolated punches, ocurred at 8:00 am local time, when the “civility pact” (no agression) made by the congressional members on Wednesday finally expired.
Mexican left tries to impede Calderon’s inauguration
11:51 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Politics| mexico · 8 Comments
29 Nov 2006Good 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
Mexican Elections: Hard to believe there was no fraud
12:28 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia| Politics| mexico · Comments Off
26 Sep 2006
Mexico City’s La Jornada newspaper reports that some U.S. observers find it hard to believe that Mexico’s recent presidential elections weren’t tainted by fraud:
The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) in Washington, which is comprised of economists, for the most part Americans, did an analysis of the data published on the website of the “Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación” (Electoral Tribunal), on which it found that, after the recount of more than 11 million polling places, “there was a significant reduction in votes” for presidential candidate Felipe Calderón.
The controversy swirling around these elections seems to have come to a head, and months later the leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador is still refusing to accept defeat. Meanwhile, the CEPR says that
the analysis proves that the result of the presidential election “are inexplicably biased.”Patrick McElwee, of CEPR’s research group, says that the results of the sampling should be analyzed to see how votes were counted. “We can’t confirm that there was fraud, but it’s very hard to think of any other explanation.”
For those of you who are lost in the maze that is the Mexican election, take a look back at the various posts we’ve done over the past few weeks for some clues.
Via / La Jornada
Image via Martinoticias.com
Que se oiga un grito! But not in the Zócalo
2:06 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Culture| mexico · Comments Off
15 Sep 2006
It’s that time of year again! The time when all of the great nation of Mexico dons the colors green, white and red to celebrate Fiestas Patrias, the celebration that marks Mexico’s independence from the Spanish crown. Tradition leads us to focus our eyes on Mexico City’s main square, the Zócalo, each year for said celebration in which the president emerges at midnight on the balcony to deliver the age-old “grito” of “Que viva México!”.
Today, in the midst of (and because of) the political drama that is playing out before the eyes of the people of Mexico, that tradition will change. To non-Mexicans it may not seem like such a big deal, but shock filled the air yesterday when it was announced that the grito will be delivered not in Mexico City’s main plaza, but in the city of Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato. Reason stated by the Mexican government: “solid evidence” that “defeated” candidate for the presidency, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his supporters were planning to disturb the celebraciones patrias.
Mexican Court Rejects Election Fraud Claims
30 Aug 2006
In a 7-0 ruling, the Electoral Court of the Federal Judiciary (TEPJF), ruled that they had rejected Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) claims that the Presidential election had been plagued by massive fraud. The court stated that López Obrador had failed to prove that the irregularities in many of the polling places did not stem from fraud.
TEPJF stated that they had thrown out the results from hundreds of polling stations where major irregularities were shown to have taken place, which meant annulling 81,000 votes for Felipe Calderón and 76,897 for López Obrador. Therefore, leaving Calderon with 4,000 fewer votes from his original 244,000-vote margin. The tribunal decided that the outcome of the partial recount was not enough to overcome Calderón’s margin of victory.
However, the tribunal did stop short of officially naming Calderón as Mexico’s next President, by law the tribunal has until Sept 6 to name the winner of the election to declare a winner.
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