Condoleeza Rice vs Democracy in Mexico

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http://www.narconews.com/Issue35/article1173.html

A Plot to Kick a Candidate Out of the 2006 Mexico Presidential Race Provokes an Unprecedented Public Revolt

LACANDON JUNGLE, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: Word has been sent from Washington: Mexico’s leading presidential candidate must be stopped, at all costs, from mounting his candidacy.

A new kind of coup d’etat has been hatched to strip Mexico City’s activist governor Andrés Manuel López Obrador – the country’s most popular political leader according to all national public opinion polls – of his right to run for president in the July 2006 elections.

This attempted coup became official policy the week that Condoleeza Rice took the helm of the U.S. State Department last month, and Washington’s reliable puppets in two of Mexico’s national political parties immediately jumped to implement the master’s orders.

López Obrador’s opponents – domestic and foreign – fear that the leader of Mexico’s electoral left wing will be unstoppable at the ballot box sixteen months from now. And so forces accustomed to stealing and fixing elections for 75 years in this country have come to a last resort: A dirty plot to remove his name from the ballot.

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But all that changed in January 2005 when Condoleeza Rice replaced Powell. The first State Department “travel advisory” issued under her command was against Mexico. The “travel advisory” and the Commercial Media campaign to buttress it – rebutted by Narco News on January 27 – painted a shrieking portrait of a country ravaged by what U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza called “a rising wave of crime.” U.S. officials and their house journalists further insisted that the so-called Mexican disorder was caused by narco-traffickers.

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The Cavalry from Below

A youth movement was launched this weekend here in Mexico, building itself largely through the Internet, and declaring its independence from all political parties, including López Obrador’s own Democratic Revolution Party (PRD, in its Spanish initials). It vows to organize horizontally and autonomously in every corner of the Mexican Republic to save its fledgling democracy.

So that English-language readers can fully grasp the sweep of this grassroots movement in opposition to the desafuero of López Obrador, Narco News today translates, in its entirety, Saturday’s La Jornada column by Jaime Avilés, the national political columnist who is historically closest to López Obrador’s political project (he wrote the introduction to the book Between History and Hope). The column also includes Avilés’ three-point plan to turn back this attempted coup d’etat and ensure its defeat.
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Mexicans have 'got it' and are fighting back. Ole!

Mexico should put a travel advisory against Rice entering their country. let her stand on our side and yell.