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Even during placid times, Mexico's annual Informe, or State of the Union address, makes for high political theater. And so when outgoing President Vicente Fox arrived at the San L??zaro Congress building in Mexico City to give his final Informe last Friday night, Mexicans were ready for some drama. And they got it. Congressmen loyal to leftist presidential contender Andrés Manuel L??pez Obrador, who has spent the past two months protesting the results of the July 2 election, jumped from their seats and surrounded the broad podium, shouting "Fuera!" (Out!). So obdurate were the legislators that...
...confrontation was the latest noisy move by L??pez Obrador's supporters, who condemn his apparent electoral loss as a fraud. It is unlikely to be their last. This week Conservative Felipe Calderón, a member of Fox's National Action Party (PAN), is expected to be declared the winner by a razor-thin margin, after two months of ballot recounts and bitter legal challenges. But thousands of L??pez Obrador stalwarts insist they will continue occupying the Zócalo, Mexico City's main plaza, and the Paseo de la Reforma, its principal avenue, where they have been living...
...this point, though, Cruz is more likely to witness the second coming of Montezuma than to see L??pez Obrador, the former mayor of Mexico City, declared President. There is little compelling evidence that victory was stolen from him. To many observers, including prominent Mexican leftists, his refusal to accept the fact that he did lose--if only by 243,000 votes out of 41 million cast--is no longer democratic protest but demagogic petulance. Polls show that Mexicans are exasperated by the massive political street fair, complete with mariachi bands and the aromas of regional cooking. But the most...
...smartly stayed calm about his opponent's postelection outbursts, perhaps realizing how raw the memories of decades of PRI-engineered election fraud are in the minds of his countrymen. Calderón last week praised the electoral tribunal for "eliminating the insidious doubts" about his victory that he says L??pez Obrador has planted. Still, when Calderón takes the presidential podium, he will face the more daunting task of eliminating Mexico's doubts about the future of its democracy...
Judges reject full-recount request With protesters claiming fraud in the July 2 presidential vote, Mexican courts ordered a partial recount. Supporters of challenger Andrés Manuel L??pez Obrador vowed to keep demonstrating...