Beaten leader plans 'parallel' rule (Lopez Obrador/Mexico)

[TexasLawyer]

This could get muy feo.

Beaten leader plans 'parallel' rule
From correspondents in Mexico City
September 09, 2006

DEFEATED presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador plans a shadow government, insisting he is the rightful leader of Mexico even as president-elect Felipe Calderon seeks reconciliation.

"We will decide if we want to obey an obsolete government that is run by a minority or if we will declare the abolition of this corrupt regime," Mr Lopez Obrador said in Mexico City's downtown square late Thursday, the 40th day of his campaign of "peaceful civil disobedience."

He announced a September 16 rally, on Mexico's independence day, at which his supporters would decide his title, whether "chief of the resistance government," or "president of Mexico" or merely "coordinator" of his movement.

Mr Calderon, the official president-elect, has extended his hand to Mr Lopez Obrador and insists he is open to dialogue. However, Mr Lopez Obrador rejected the offer this week, calling his opponent an "illegitimate president" responsible for a "coup d'etat" which he said was sending "Mexico's institutions to hell," in remarks to hundreds of admirers outside the electoral tribunal in Mexico City.

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[MercutioATC]

1. Felipe Calderon or Philipe Lieberman...?

This guy sounds a lot loke Holy Joe.


...any chance we could just make Joe "Presdent of Mexico" and make him go away?

[PSPS]

2. "Beaten" "Defeated" -- gee, no bias there!

[The Count]

8. Like the name of Gore - never without "who lost to Bush"

They are try to drum the lies in us...

[w4rma]

3. It will be fine. Obrador knows what he is doing. It is for the future.(nt)

[ngant17]

5. Mexican politics

Obrador is the mayor of Mex. City, which is one of the world's most populous cities. That's where his urban support base is, but what's impressive is the amount of support he is getting in the rural areas, like Oaxaca and Chiapas which have large Indian populations.

This dilemma could become unpredictable and even dangerous. I would avoid traveling to Mexico as a tourist in the next few months.

Latin America is seeing a trend of strong leftist leaders taking control by popular support. I don't see this trend reversing itself anytime soon.

[Peace Patriot]

7. The only thing that is "unpredictable and even dangerous" is the

fascist corporate rulers in both our countries. The entirely peace civil resistance of millions of Mexicans is not dangerous. Nor is it unpredictable. The protesters in Mexico City--and also in Oaxaca--have proceeded in a completely orderly and well-organized way to set up parallel governments, and have not tolerated, and will not tolerate, any disorder in their ranks. And I imagine that they are by far the best people to hang out with in Mexico.

As for travel, have you tried to go anywhere by air the United States lately? Talk about disorder! If I had the wherewithal for a vacation, I'd choose Mexico in a minute, and head straight for Oaxaca and points south, where the people are in charge of the festivals.

[IndianaGreen]

4. We should have done the same thing in 2000

and made pests out of ourselves in resisting the Great Pretender--we wouldn't be in Iraq now!

[Peace Patriot]

6. "Beaten"? They refused to recount the votes in an election with thousands

of red flags that was "decided" by half a percent of the vote. Does 40 days of massive peaceful civil disobedience, well-organized, grass roots community based "parallel rule," and a concurrent uprising and set-up of "parallel rule" in the state of Oaxaca over local stolen elections and brutal fascist policies, sound "beaten"? Wishful thinking on the part of the corporate despots!

[The Count]

9. 911 changed everything...Oops, you were talking about Mexico?

Both "beatings" brought to you in part by ...Choicepoint