06: back to the future

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Monday August 21, 2006 · 9:29 AM PDT

2006/08/21 · 09:29

OK, lots of developments today after the friday/weekend events, with the added bonus that mexico city schools reopen today. Links and details below the fold:

Back to school: Mexico city schools reopen to traffic chaos?
Back to July 2: Deja vu all over again, or how many times do you hit "refresh" before the PREP results come to a screeching halt? (Chiapas governor race)
Back to 2004: New Ahumada video brings back the merry gang of players... maybe there WAS a conspiracy after all!
Back to the Jurassic: Right-wing state bans text with sexual education content
Back to basics: AMLO calls for National Democratic Convention on 9/16, inviting one million delegates to bring their 5 point projects; regional committees have begun to mobilize.

Image: on Sunday a group of women entered the Mexico City cathedral to protest voter fraud. They began chanting pro AMLO slogans but were quickly asked to leave by a PRD officer who asked them to please not mix politics with religion. Some suggest these protestors were planted as provocators. Read More

Mexico News Roundup 8/20/06, Sunday Edition: God is not panista

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Sunday August 20, 2006 · 6:43 AM PDT

2006/08/20 · 06:43

Despite what televisa (te idiotiza) and tv azteca (te apendeja) might have you believe, not all of AMLO's sympathizers are maoist-marxist-leninist castro loving atheist chavez clones. Some are actually quite devout and socially conservative catholics.

About 500 inhabitants of the permanent peaceful civil resistance camps stationed in Mexico City's central square (Zócalo) marched to the Basílica de Guadalupe to implore the Virgin to intercede and make the Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF) reconsider its decision for a full recount.

http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2006/08/20/010n1pol.php

Or did anybody really think the Virgen Morena (the Brown Virgin) would side with the powerful few?

It's an interesting dynamic between faith and politics here in Mexico. People don't link the two as much as they do in the US. You find many deeply faithful and socially conservative catholic people who inequivocally vote for the left every single time.

update: Please also check el cid's Mexico roundup thread, as there is info on the Chiapas governor race and a new citizens petition accepted by the federal tribunal. Read More

Mexico: Who has been kidnapped here? Who has been holding whom hostage?

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Friday August 18, 2006 · 10:57 AM PDT

2006/08/18 · 10:57

My first diary here on Kos (July 4, two days after the election) was a translation of a text I received from a good friend, Daniela Pastrana, who works as a freelance journalist here in Mexico City. Daniela has been with Reforma and La Jornada and currently is writing an in depth chronicle of the peaceful civil resistance camps that have set up since 7/30.

It's been 47 days since the election and there is still no definitive official winner. It's been two and a half weeks since the camps were set up. Today I received this text from Daniela and with her permission I'm posting it along with the English translation. I'm accompanying with a cartoon that stuck in my mind when I first saw it over two weeks ago and speaks very much to Daniela's text:
update: some bombshell hard numbers from the recount? look below the fold.
August 2 cartoon by El Fisgón. TV announcer says: "Reforma avenue remains kidnapped!" while democracy wonders when they'll talk about her kidnapping... Read More

Mexico News Roundup 8/15/06: Cast the first stone

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Tuesday August 15, 2006 · 8:28 AM PDT

2006/08/15 · 08:28

From the very beginning of the civil resistance that was born out of the election fraud in Mexico, the federal government and the PAN candidate (armed with the noise machine that is their servile mainstream media) have assumed a position in which they call for "peace". They have continued their pre-election memes of portraying AMLO and his supporters as dangerous disruptors of our national order, as a threat to our civil life.

Yesterday, we got a taste of the truth.

It became apparent and clear exactly which side espouses violence and repression. Read More

Here's how the Election Fraud was carried out in Mexico

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Saturday July 29, 2006 · 6:28 AM PDT

2006/07/29 · 06:28

As the days continue to pass after the Mexican presidential election, members of the Coalición por el Bien de Todos (Coalition for the Good of All) continue to present what is called "prueba superveniente", or emerging evidence, of the electoral fraud and how it was carried out. Read More

Mexican election: open letters exchanged by candidates

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Tuesday July 25, 2006 · 11:03 AM PDT

2006/07/25 · 11:03

A week before what is predicted to be the largest political rally in modern history, the two disputing candidates for the Mexican presidency exchanged open letters which were published in several dailies.

First, the PRD's Lopez Obrador (AMLO) sent Felipe Calderon's team a letter. A few hours later came Calderón's reply. I have translated the entire text of both letters as the main content of this diary entry. Read More

A lesson in mobilization from Mexico?

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Wednesday July 19, 2006 · 10:23 AM PDT

2006/07/19 · 10:23

As I was standing in the middle of the largest political mobilization in my country's history, amidst an ocean of yellow and white (and yes, important chunks of red), over a million people chanting, marching, celebrating, dancing, singing...

As I was enjoying this spectacle, this truly joyful manifestation of civic rights, as I saw entire families (and their pets, even!) Marching ten miles to make a statement; all kinds of people from all walks of life and all age ranges...

I couldn't help but ask myself what had happened to mobilization in the United States. Read More

Mexican election update: AMLO in the lead by just under 2%

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Wednesday July 05, 2006 · 6:41 PM PDT

2006/07/05 · 18:41

As announced by IFE officials on Sunday night, the district by district count began today. As I write this (8:35pm local, 9:35 Eastern), different outlets are reporting, but it's around 84% and the results are quite different:

-- 84.84 % of polling stations tabulated (20:24 hrs local time)

Andrés Manuel López Obrador: 36.51 %
Felipe Calderón: 34.74 %
Roberto Madrazo: 22.2 %
Patricia Mercado: 2.71 %
Roberto Campa: 0.94 %

This can still change though...
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Mexico: Let's mobilize

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Tuesday July 04, 2006 · 1:36 PM PDT

2006/07/04 · 13:36

I received an email from a friend today. Her name is Daniela Pastrana; she is a Mexican journalist living and working here in Mexico City, who has worked at Reforma and La Jornada, among other publications. With her permission, I translated and am now sharing her message:

First it was worry. Then disbelief. We were speechless. Then anger set in (towards Patricia Mercado and her showing, towards [EZLN's Subcomandante] Marcos and towards Cuauhtémoc [Cárdenas]-- for screwing Zapatism and Cardenism, towards the worthless Madrazists). And then came hopelessness and shame. Hopelessness because, without being PRD party members, we invested our hearts and souls into this campaign to try and show our friends and family that Mexico can no longer support an economic project that has never given us reason for joy in 24 years, but we were instead met with blind eyes and deaf ears. And shame because despite being a bountiful country with great historical tradition we have allowed the elites to impose, time and time again, a system of living that we don't want and we don't deserve.

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