Mexico: Fox Backs Down:. To deliver "grito":in Dolores Hidalgo

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Fox is going 170 miles north of Mexico to deliver the Mexican revolutionary should because he can't do it in the Zocalo in Mexico City, the site of the protests by the Mexican democracy movement of Lopez Obrador and the PRD, probable winners of the presidential election. The Mexican Senate voted unanimously that Fox deliver "the grito" in Mexico City just before Fox backed off and announced he was high tailing it out of town.

Fox to deliver ´grito´ in Dolores Hidalgo
President moves annual celebration to
Guanajuato after protesters threaten ceremony

Wire services
El Universal
September 15, 2006

President Vicente Fox backed away from another showdown with Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Thursday, announcing that he wouldn´t hold the annual Independence Day celebration in the capital´s main Zócalo square to avoid protesters.

López Obrador and his supporters had vowed to upstage Fox by refusing to take part in Friday´s annual salute of "Viva Mexico!" delivered each year by the president. They are planning to take over the Zócalo for their own celebration, and some had feared clashes if pro-government revelers showed up.

Fox will move his ceremony to the small, central town of Dolores Hidalgo, 170 miles (270 kilometers) northwest of Mexico City, where Roman Catholic priest Miguel Hidalgo launched the first call for independence from Spain in 1810. The town is located in Fox´s home state of Guanajuato, a bastion of support for his conservative National Action Party (PAN).

Interior Secretary Carlos Abascal made the announcement shortly after the Senate voted unanimously to recommend that Fox not travel to the Zócalo.

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Fox runs away because the people demand democracy.


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Grito de Dolores
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The Grito de Dolores was the call for the independence of Mexico given by Miguel Hidalgo on September 16, 1810 in the town of Dolores, near Guanajuato. The name is a pun in the Spanish language: "Grito de Dolores" can mean both "The Shout from (the town of) Dolores", and "The Cry of Pain", signifying the pain that the rule of Spain caused Mexico.

"Mexicanos, ¡viva México!" (Mexicans, long live Mexico!) Shortly after this speech Hidalgo began an army and tried to usurp the government but he was eventually defeated.

[WhiteTara]

1. Guanajuato was the city where they stuffed

the ballot boxes for Calderon. I hope the protesters follow him to Dolores Hidalgo.

[0007]

2. Man could we learn a thing or two from Mexico....

[Me.]

3. Where Do You Think This Will All End Up?

I read Obrador is going to let up on the street protests. Do you think he has the fervour to continue pressing his case?

*shadow government*