Hundreds of thousands protest Mexico's Fixed Elections

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  1. skip

    skip Founder Administrator

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    Hundreds of thousands of Mexican citizens flooded the center of Mexico City to protest the rigged elections that put a conservative in power in a very close count (less than 1% difference). So far the gov't has refused calls for a recount, which is what the protesters demand.

    Reports in US media have tried to downplay the numbers of protesters, usually by saying only thousands, with tight shots, not showing the TRUE size of the protest, which may have exceeded 1 million people! That line of people on the street leading away from the square, goes on for six miles!

    Here's a picture from Reuters, that suddenly appeared almost 24 hours after the original report, which at first only contained tight shots of a few protesters. Reuters still only says "thousands", and makes no attempt to estimate the true scope of discontent with the elections.
     
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  3. skip

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    I'm now reading that this crowd measured 2.5 MILLION! Where are the news reports from the US telling us this?

    Nowhere! The FIX IS IN, and the US doesn't want the duly elected Socialist to take power.

    This is US censorship.
     
    skip, Aug 1, 2006
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  5. cadcruzer

    cadcruzer Sailing the 8 seas

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    ...c'mon skipper settle down.
    Lopez Obrador's aides also took issue Monday with newspaper reports putting attendance at his Sunday rally at a few hundred thousand. Organizers claim the number was between 2 million and 3 million.

    The Mexico City newspaper Reforma said it calculated the size of Sunday's crowd using satellite images. By doing so, it was able to determine the number of people per square meter. It then multiplied that by the total space filled in the Zocalo and surrounding streets.

    Reforma said its estimate, certified by three notaries, put the maximum number of people in the Zocalo at 135,000 and the total number of protesters at 348,000. organizer's ALWAYS give a higher than reality number.?????????????US censorship? these numbers come from within mexico,unless of course Reforma is secretly run by fox?
     
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  7. Lodui

    Lodui One Man Orgy

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    It's all over CNN. It doesn't seem censored, just not as eye catching as two wars in the middle east.
     
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    The news reports I read pretty much only say "thousands", not tens, not hundreds, not millions. They seem to play up the inconvenience to business people, and are even saying this protest will turn more people against the socialist.

    Not much is being said about this being the largest protest in Mexican history, how the polls were rigged, how important this is to the future of Mexico.

    None of that is being played up, just ignored or downplayed.
     
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  11. freediver

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    guess we're not the only ones rigging our elections now days
     
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  13. gardener

    gardener Realistic Humanist

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    Well if they can amass that many people to protest, perhaps they can affect a change. I haven't seen it covered on the news here, but then I've been busy. I wish them the best. But the corruption in Mexico is deep seated, and American policy has been collusive.
     
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    We make fun of Mexicans all the time, but at least they've got their shit together enough to protest a rigged election. I didn't hear more than a whimper here in 2004.
     
    towelie21, Aug 9, 2006
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    The Mexican government did not refuse a recount; the decision was not for the federal government to make; it was the electoral court that had to make that call, following Mexican law. A partial recount—of the most disputed ballots—was made; that recount confirmed that the election's results were accurate and legitimate. Moreover, the electoral process in Mexico is among the most transparent in the world; the European Union sent some 80 observers to monitor the elections; with those observers, plus other local and foreign observers, there were a total of around 25,000. Plus, all the political parties that participated in the elections had the right to send their own observers to each and every polling station. After the elections, the European Union's representative certified the whole election process, and even recommended that the losing party accept their defeat and stop their accusations. I live in Mexico; I voted, and followed the process closely; and my conclusion is that there was no such “fraud”.
     
    BlackSheep77, Feb 23, 2007
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