Does Vicente Fox realize he's the president of Mexico?

[L A Woman]

I just heard him make a few suggestions about how the U.S. can handle our immigration situation. Has it occured to him at all that the problem is that the Mexican people cannot make a living wage in their own country??? They aren't coming here because they love dodging bullets at the border or because they crave L.A. smog. They need to feed their families. Is he doing ANYTHING to make that happen?

No surprise that he's Bush's buddy, that's for damn sure.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Isn't the mayor of Mexico City

running for president on a platform of creating a living wage for Mexican workers?

[leftstreet]

4. Yes. Lopez Obrador

Business, diplomats wary of Lopez Obrador

By Jay RootKnight Ridder Newspapers

MEXICO CITY - Some diplomats and businessmen are spooked by the possibility that former Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will become Mexico's next president.

But with three months to go before the election, most admit that they have little hard information on how an administration led by the tough-talking leftist would affect Mexico's attitude toward business and foreign investment.

In a country where the average wage is less than $2 an hour and millions have moved to the U.S. in search of better jobs, Lopez Obrador's populist message has been a winner. The 52-year-old widower has led opinion polls for more than two years. A Mitofsky poll conducted this week for the Televisa news network showed him leading with 37.5 percent, compared with 30.6 percent for Felipe Calderon, the candidate for President Vicente Fox's National Action Party (PAN in its Spanish initials), and 28.8 percent for Roberto Madrazo of the once-dominant Institutional Revolution Party (PRI).

His harshest critics have likened Lopez Obrador to Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, who likes to call President Bush a "donkey" and "Mr. Danger."

Lopez Obrador aides laugh off the comparison and say the only people who should worry are corrupt politicians and their special-interest backers.

more at link
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/14234210.htm

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. Thank you

I couldn't remember how to spell Sr Obrador's name, but I knew I could identify him by his political office.

[leftstreet]

6. He seems to be able to get people in the streets!

Updated: 10:04 p.m. ET April 24, 2005

MEXICO CITY - Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators thronged Mexico City’s central square and surrounding streets on Sunday to protest the federal prosecution of the capital city mayor, a leading contender for president in 2006.

Their mouths covered with white masks, protesters in the so-called “March of Silence” filled 12 lanes of the Paseo de La Reforma in columns that stretched for several miles in a demonstration of support for Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

They carried signs with the words, “Lopez Obrador, we are with you” and said the legal case against the mayor is testing their faith in Mexico’s government.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7623969/

[Fridays Child]

7. Here's something on that...

http://lamnews.com/mexico.htm

Scroll down to the following headline link:

Mexican Candidates Begin 5-Month Campaign Promising to Bring Jobs and Raise
Wages so that Thousands of Mexicans won't Need to Head to the United States

[Cobalt Violet]

2. He's our co-president.

That's why they have strick control of their southern boarder and little control on their north.

[hippiechick]

3. He's busy being part of the coalition of the willing, isn't he?

:shrug: You know, spreading all that Democracy on Iraq ? :shrug:

[rocktivity]

8. It's HIS immigration situation, too

And he's sitting on his ass allowing it to happen because because he gets to outsource his poor, and US businesses get to maximize their profits by minimizing their labor costs. Why the lack of interest in what happens to his own people?

:headbang:
rocknation