Posts Tagged ‘mexico elections’
Lopez Obrador gets a TV show, calls president a dummy
7:06 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · mexico|Politics|TV · 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|mexico|Politics · 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|mexico|Politics · 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|mexico|Politics · 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
Chavez won’t recognize new Mexican president
7:44 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|mexico|Politics|Venezuela · Comments Off
18 Sep 2006
Am I the only one who’s not surprised when Hugo Chavez runs his mouth? Apparently, Vicente Fox is surprised — and unhappy — about recent comments made by Chavez with regard to the brand-spanking new president of Mexico:
Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez reiterated Sunday in Caracas that his government “does not recognize the president elect of Mexico” who he said “represents a desperate extreme right which appeals to all sorts of dirty tricks”, although “it’s difficult to see them hail victory”.“We do not recognize the government of Mexico or its president elect because many strange things happened their (sic)”, said Chavez interviewed by the Latinamerican television Telesur.
Chavez recalled that president elect Felipe Calderon and “the desperate right”, blasted against him during the (Mexican) electoral campaign with the purpose of presenting left wing candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as “Satan”.
Via / MercoPress and El Universal
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.
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.
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.
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