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...hammering the town plaza of Teloloapan in Mexico's southern Guerrero state. But thousands of people - mostly poor farmers wearing straw cowboy hats and gaunt faces, their wives clutching cheap umbrellas to try to stay cool - are standing to hear Andr?s Manuel L?pez Obrador, the front-runner in Mexico's July 2 presidential race. L?pez, sporting thick garlands of orange and yellow marigolds that supporters toss around his neck at campaign stops, is the candidate of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party (PRD). Yet as much as the struggling campesinos enjoy hearing his lavish social welfare promises, they're more interested...
...confessed to beating and raping both nuns. He was not supposed to be in the U.S.; he had been deported at least three times. By his account, his unlawful entries into the U.S. began in 1986 at the age of 17. Under the name Victor Manuel Batres-Martinez, which may have been his legal name, he found his way to Oregon, where he was arrested for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. His sentence to a juvenile facility was suspended, with the understanding that the INS would deport him. The agency did so and in May 1987 granted...
Assuming he went as the INS promised, he didn't stay long. In September that year, he was arrested and convicted of theft and shoplifting in Wenatchee, Wash., under the name Manuel Martinez. Two months later, he was convicted of felony sales of marijuana and hashish in Los Angeles and sent to jail for 60 days. In March 1988 he was arrested in Los Angeles, once for robbery, once for possession of a controlled substance. Another possession arrest followed in April. In August he was arrested in Los Angeles for robbery. In December he was sent to prison in California...
...wonder then that Andr?s Manuel L?pez Obrador, the leftist former mayor of Mexico City whose platform focuses on the poor, is the heavy favorite to win Mexico?s July 2 presidential election. L?pez has not been shy about suggesting that Mexico may need to renegotiate NAFTA, especially with regard to U.S. agriculture subsidies, a prospect that alarms the Bush Administration. In a recent stump speech, L?pez called unabated Mexican migration "proof of the Mexican economic failure" in the NAFTA era, and he called for a "new cooperation accord with the U.S." to address Mexico?s development...
...cartoons. Although the Western media believe that freedom of expression is a right, no rights are lost when one respects another's sensitivities. The issue is not the behavior of Islamic fanatics but our insistence on seeing the world the way we want to, not as others see it. Manuel Arboleda Manila...