�Pobre M�xico! Tan lejos de Dios, y tan cerca de los Estados Unidos.
(Poor Mexico! So far from God, and so close to the United States.)
- General Porfirio Di�az, President of Mexico, 1877-1911
It seems Mexico has been hit by the Orwellian PAN rules – some pigs are more equal than others. In its final ruling, Mexico’s [...]
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Update: Fecal won.
Tomorrow is the day that Today the Electoral Court of the Federal Judiciary (TEPJF) will finally officially name Felipe Calderón president-elect. Honestly, it is not surprising, last week TEPJF had ruled that Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) had failed to prove that the irregularities in many of the polling places did not stem [...]
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By law, Mexican President Vicente Fox had been due to give a valedictory state-of-the-nation address to Congress before he steps down later this year. But, there were rumors that Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his supporters were going to stop Fox from giving his address. Regardless, Fox had vowed nothing was going to stop [...]
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Update [2006-9-2 by XicanoPwr]:Clarification has been added, signified in gold.
In a 7-0 ruling, the Electoral Court of the Federal Judiciary (TEPJF), Mexico’s Federal Electoral Tribunal, ruled that Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) had failed to prove that the irregularities in many of the polling places did not stem from fraud, nor had he successfully demonstrated [...]
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In Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) fight to demand a recount of Mexico’s July 2 presidential election, Prensa Latina is reporting that Mexico’s “Por el Bien de Todos” coalition is presenting additional proof electoral violations took place. Among the proof to be shown will be broken seals that were illegally opened at the ballot boxes [...]
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
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