Mexico - Plans to resist new government, Democratic Convention Sep 16

[Annces]

Mexico, Sep 8 (Prensa Latina) Three days after Felipe Calderon was proclaimed the president-elect, rejection continues in Mexican social and academic sectors. Legislators of the Democratic Revolution and Labor parties gave out the beginning of a strategy to not recognize the newly-elected dignitary before international entities. Thousands of Mexicans are responding to the opposition alliance's call to participate at the September 16 Democratic National Convention.

Mexico´s Labor Party leader Alberto Anaya will continue supporting the opposition movement led by Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Anaya said affiliates and leaders will attend the September 16 National Democratic Convention (CND) called by Por el Bien de Todos coalition to nominate delegates in all possible places. PT leaders, senators and members will back agreements of the coalition and the CND, he stated. So far thousands of people have registered to participate in the meeting. Already being discussed are creation of a parallel government, declaring Lopez Obrador as the legitimate president or chief of the resistance, and drawing up strategies for that parallel administration, among other proposals.


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[Joanne98]

1. Thanx for posting this. We can't forget those guys down there.

[Arkham House]

2. I thought at the time--Dec 12, 2000--

--and I think now...we should have resisted the Supreme Court coup d'etat. Peacefully--brought the country to its knees, a national strike, the Dems showing real guts. Not doing this--acquiescing in the Coup--was our "original sin"--and it's brought on everything that's come since... God bless the Mexicans...

[Annces]

3. I wish one of our own politicians would go down and support

Obrador, like Carter or Jackson. Oh well.

[pberq]

4. Those that underestimate the popular opposition

http://www.narconews.com/Issue42/article2042.html

Blockades
“Those that underestimate the popular opposition don’t know what they are talking about”

By Luis Hernández Navarro
La Jornada

September 7, 2006

A profound political crisis is shaking up the country. The rules that regulate the balance of power between elites have been violated. From above, there is no agreement or any possibility for one in the short term. The occupation of the lectern of the Palace of San Lázaro (the Chamber of Deputies, lower house of the Mexican Congress) by legislators from the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD in its Spanish initials) and the Labor Party (PT) in order to prevent President Fox from giving his speech this September 1 is one example.

A severe crisis in the model of control pierces the relationships of domination in large regions of the Mexican national territory. People accustomed to obeying have refused to do so. People that think they are destined to rule have been unable to impose their command. Those from below have become disobedient. When those on the top want to impose their opinion from above, in the name of the law, they are ignored from below. This can be seen with Oaxaca, Chiapas, the miners of Lázaro Cárdenas, and the peasants of Atenco.

The political crisis and the crisis in the model of control have joined hands. Taking advantage of this fight on the top, millions of people from below have shown their insubordination. They are not ready to accept any more impositions. So they slip through the gaps that are left open by the dispute up above.

The country does not fit into the political regime. All the organizations that regulate the struggle for power, its exercise, and its values have been kidnapped by the powers that be. They have taken these organizations hostage. People that demand that the PRD choose between the rule of law and social mobilization are behaving like a thief who, upon being discovered, yells, “stop, thief!” They have been the first to impose extrajudicial force upon these institutions. What else could this be if not the famous Chapultepec Pact of Carlos Slim?

(much more at link . . .)

[blue cat]

5. When I heard that the courts

went with the rightist, I lost hope for a few days and stayed away from politics, because I think that we would have the same outcome even if we marched by the millions in the streets.