Posts Tagged ‘amlo’
Mexico: Recount protests infiltrated
1:41 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|mexico|Politics · Comments Off
14 Aug 2006
Among the many pro-recount protests that have been taking place in Mexico City — organized by supporters of leftist presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador — is a controversial plantón (sit-in) that took place in the Xochimilco area of the city last week. Controversial because, according to a group of students from Mexico’s National University and other entities, the act of civil disobedience was infiltrated by a group of “porros” — individuals from the opposing camp (usually the government) who, when planted on university campuses, act as moles in an attempt to disrupt the protest and cause trouble.
According to Mexican daily La Jornada, in a letter to AMLO’s coalition, witnesses charge:
…there are porros at the camp site in Xochimilco, and that they “are taking advantage of the people’s goodwill and the lack of knowledge of internal working of the university, having infiltrated the peaceful civil disobedience movement.” They stated that these groups have commited acts of “hostility and provocation” against the university students who are participating in the movement. They also state that on August 9th, when some entrances to bank offices were blocked, “members of OEU — an organization tied to the University Student Federation [a group identified as porro] — among them porro group leaders, threatened students and photographed them as a means of intimidation.
Mexican election recount: more evidence of fraud
3:06 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|mexico|Politics · Comments Off
10 Aug 2006
The “partial” recount of votes in the ever-controversial, never-ending saga of the Mexican presidential elections is revealing “errors” in polling places, according to Spain’s 20 Minutos newspaper, which cited this example:
One example, at polling place 2220 there area 21 missing ballots, and in another in Jalisco state 80 votes were registered as being for the “Nueva Alianza” party when they were actually for López Obrador’s coalition, “Por el bien de todos”.Ricardo Monreal, representative for the leftist coalition said “there is no perfect crime, but there was electoral fraud against López Obrador and they’ve left their fingerprints everywhere.”
Monreal stated in a press conference that, so far, they have found tampering of voting stamps in 15 districts, “which is enough for judges from the Electoral Tribunal to reevaluate the decision that was made last Saturday to not accept a recount of 41 million votes.
Said tribunal rejected AMLO’s request for a full recount, stipulating that only 9% of polling places would be subjected to the recount process.
Via / 20 Minutos
Image via Butterfly LXT’s Flickr page
Mexican Elections : No Recount for You
8:19 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · mexico|Politics · Comments Off
7 Aug 2006
For those inside and outside of Mexico hoping for a recount of the votes from the July 2nd presidential election, hope is dead. On Saturday Mexico’s top electoral court rejected Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s Democratic Revolution Party’s request for a recount. According to AP:
In Mexico’s central plaza, thousands of protesters watched the session on a huge screen, chanting “Vote by vote!” and drowning out the judges’ statements.
AMLO responded by telling the crowd:
For us, it’s very clear,” he said. “If they refuse a full recount, that’s proof that we won the presidential election…. They may have the money and the power, but we have what’s most important — the people’s support.
It’s very clear that the Mexican court’s decision will help keep alive the image of a corrupt Mexican electoral system with something to hide and that hurts all Mexicans, regardless of party affiliation.
Via / Yahoo! News & the LA Times
Image Via / Columbus Dispatch
López Obrador to Univisión: I am the President
5:51 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|mexico|Politics · Comments Off
27 Jul 2006
According to Spain’s El PaÃs newspaper, left-wing candidate for the presidency of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador told Univisión yesterday that he is in fact the President of his country, though election fraud has placed that honor on his opponent Felipe Calderón:
Leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador told U.S. network Univision today that he is “President of Mexico”, as the Electoral court continues to examine the charges of voter fraud during the July 2nd elections. López Obrador, according to the Mexican Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) took second place by receiving 0.58% votes less than conservative candidate Felipe Calderón.
According to El PaÃs, this declaration seems to have been brought on by the fact that
“…powerful teacher’s union leader and close friend to President
Vicente Fox, Elba Esther Gordillo, referred to Calderón as ‘President Elect’ in an official speech.”
President or not, López Obrador is still not giving up, and to prove that point, he’s organized yet another “Vote by Vote” march for this weekend, which will end at Mexico City’s main square, el Zócalo.
Related: López Obrador: No faith in election agency (Houston Chronicle)
Via / El PaÃs
Protests begin in Mexico City
12:53 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism|mexico|Politics · Comments Off
12 Jul 2006
The mobilization called for by Mexico’s leftist presidential candidate last week will begin as planned today, reports Forbes:
Supporters of leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador headed to Mexico City on Wednesday, leaving mountain towns and sprawling industrial cities to demand a ballot-by-ballot recount.Protesters gathered outside the country’s 300 electoral districts before heading to the capital, where a mass rally is planned for Sunday to denounce official results showing conservative Felipe Calderon as the apparent winner of the July 2 election.
Mexican Elections : Celebs Ask AMLO to Quit
11 Jul 2006
Estrellas in Mexico are making their opinions known one way or the other regarding the recent Mexican presidential election results. Filmmakers and actors alike are asking Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador to accept his loss and move on. Among those expressing such sentiments include filmmaker Gustavo Loza and Mexican TV host Alan Tacher (who?). According to QuePasa:
Loza, who represented Mexico during the past Academy Awards with his film “Al otro lado”, believes Mexico is undergoing a very worrisome period after the July 2 elections. “We are experienced the inexperienced in Mexico. I hope this reached a good end for everyone’s sake since the last thing we need is more marches and social outbreaks. Lopez-Obrador must accept triumphs and defeats”, he stated.
I think it’s great, one way or the other when celebs (however marginal) use their star power but doesn’t anyone care what the real working class Mexican thinks?
Via / QuePasa
Lopez Obrador brings together half a million Mexicans
12:07 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · mexico|Politics · 5 Comments
10 Jul 2006
Saturday was a big day in Mexico City. As promised, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the “defeated” candidate for the presidency of the Mexican republic is anything but defeated as he managed to organize half a million Mexicans in the city’s main plaza, el Zócalo, to support the cause of refuting the results of the recent elections.
Once again, Mexican author Elena Poniatowska documents the event first hand in an editorial for Mexican daily La Jornada, reflecting on AMLO’s power to make everyone present feel as if they were visiting with a friend:
“El Zócalo is Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s living room. He asks, of more than 500,000 men and women of every age, “How about Wednesday at six?” and they respond “yes”, raise one hand in unison and shake it in the air. “Here, here I am. It’s me, look at me.” They feel recognized. The intimacy with AMLO covers the whole plaza.
Mexican elections: Where will a PAN triumph lead?
5:53 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · mexico|Politics · Comments Off
6 Jul 2006
One hundred percent of the Mexican voting districts have reported in and the results, not yet officially finalized, are pretty much final: Calderón leads López Obrador by a miniscule .57% of a point.
Does this mean that Calderón will be declared president? Who knows. López Obrador is not giving up the fight, planning to formally refute the results and organizing supporters for a protest in Mexico City’s main square this weekend.
My question is: with so many irregularities, anomalies, votes in the garbage, et al how could this minute advantage on the part of the PAN be declared a legal win? What happened between now and two days ago that would prove that this victory is legitimate? Why should the Mexican people trust these results?
The issues of trust, corruption and the declaration of victory on the part of a ruling party are delicate ones for Mexico, and I fear that while López Obrador may call on his supporters to exhibit restraint in their reaction to the official results, there may be incidents of violence on the part of a large group of outraged citizens. Americans might have felt just as outraged during Gore-Bush, but we aren’t known to take to the streets like citizens of other countries.
Let’s hope that the truth finally prevails and that no one gets hurt in the process.
Image via El Universal
Mexican elections: a real-life telenovela
1:09 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · mexico|Politics · Comments Off
6 Jul 2006Like Mala reported, it’s hard to tell what’s going on with the Mexican elections by looking at mainstream U.S. press. I turned to my RSS feed of Mexican headlines on the topic and not only is it confusing, it’s sooo dramatic.
Here are just a few of today headlines in Mexican daily La Jornada:
The PREP is dead
Respect our vote, demand citizens outside IFE headquarters
The PREP ignored thousands of votes
This fraud is more sophisticated than the one of 1988, says EZLN
Calderon warns that he won’t accept more ballot packages be opened
The spectre of the ’88 fraud haunts IFE and undermines its credibility
Anomalies appearing all over the country
Mexican Elections: Recount favoring AMLO
7:02 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · mexico|Politics · Comments Off
5 Jul 2006
La vida te da sorpresas, sorpresas te da la vida, ay Dios
Oh, what a difference a day — and a recount — makes. Mexican and international press is reporting that the official recount has put PRD candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador in the lead over opponent Felipe Calderón, who had just a day ago seemed to be the victor in this race, full of all the twists and turns of a telenovela.
According to Spain’s El PaÃs, reporting a little over an hour ago:
The recount of the 42.79% of the votes from the Mexican presidential elections of last Sunday yields a 2.62% lead to leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador, according to an announcement by the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE). IFE sources have also clarified that while this would put López Obrador at 37,00% and conservative Felipe Calderón at 34,38%, it is still not possible to confirm definite trends.
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