Protesters head to Mexican capital to demand recount

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Supporters of leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took their protests to the road Wednesday, heading from small mountain towns and sprawling industrial cities to Mexico City to demand a ballot-by-ballot recount of the 41 million votes cast in the July 2 election.

Protesters were gathering outside each of the country's 300 electoral districts before heading to the capital, where a mass rally is planned for Sunday to denounce official results showing conservative Felipe Calderon as the apparent winner of the election.

Wearing yellow, the color of Lopez Obrador's Democratic Revolution Party, and carrying signs that read "Vote by vote! No to electoral fraud!" dozens of the candidate's most fervent supporters began a 60-mile (100-kilometer) walk from his home state of Tabasco.

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In northern Nuevo Leon, a state Lopez Obrador lost to Calderon, about 500 protesters planned to gather later Wednesday in downtown Monterrey, the state's capital. They will leave by buses and cars, picking up supporters along the trip, said Alejandro Silva, a Democratic Revolution spokesman.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/07/12/mexico.election.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest

[movonne]

1. This is good...I wish the people of this country would do the same...

[mom cat]

9. Lets take notes and be prepared for November!

[dogday]

2. I hope that we as a nation are watching

this election and connecting the dots....

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

3. Most Of The Idiots In This Country Watch American Idol....

They don't have time to pay attention to unimportant crap like this.

You're preaching to the choir. While most of DU may comprehend what's going on, the average idiot is more concerned with whether there's going to be a terrorist attack.

[Generator]

6. So true

But some can actually watch American Idol and Democracy Now. Anyhoo-if you can or anyone can-today's show with Greg Palast about the fraud election in Mexico was absoultely riveting. Democracy is just about dead, but damn if the people in Mexico aren't more clued in-(probably have less to lose because their ives suck compared to ours) and are going to actually BE in the streets over the theft of an election. Almost makes me wish I was born in Mexico. I get so sick of the propaganda eating Americans too.

You can enjoy American Idol and still realize that all the shit they are shoveling us is a pack of lies. Ah that we were in the street!!! It will never happen until we either have too much too lose-or we actually have a leader we believe in that cares more about real Democracy than the status quo. Sorry, Gore and Kerry don't cut it. That was what is SO interesting about Mexico. They will be in the streets. We will be on the couch. Or as I liked to say after 9/11-

UNITED WE SIT.

(hey I enjoyed that rant-and you WERE correct about your negative opinion on the Mexico election)

[dogday]

11. Yes, that is why I can

only hope that some will sit up and pay attention....

[Judi Lynn]

4. I hope they will be safe throughout their trip. It should be their right

to protest when they believe they have been denied a democratic election.

I hope they will not be attacked by government forces, but I can't bet they won't, unfortunately.

[ronnykmarshall]

5. Viva Obrador!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2S4mWDD--0&search=mexican%20national%20anthem

Viva Mexico!

[movie_girl99]

7. we should have a wear yellow day

to show our support.

[lonestarnot]

8. Yellow! And in this case it doesn't mean cowards!

Speaking truth to power! Go people, show the world what you are made of in the name of justice!

[sonias]

10. Que Viva Mexico!

I wish them luck on their protest march and more importantly that they can reclaim their government before Calderon is installed. If we had the opportunity to go back to 2000 and kicked up the street protests even more, maybe things would be different in this county.

Sonia

12. Good Luck Mexico

A small group of supporters of Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador march on the sidewalk towards the main Zocalo plaza in Mexico, City, Mexico on Wednesday July 12, 2006. Thousands of Lopez Obrador's supporters began marching from different parts of the country to demand a manual, ballot-by-ballot recount of the July 2 elections and will join up next Sunday July 16, for a massive march in Mexico City.

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13. Aide promised Sunday demonstration would be gigantic

Tens of thousands of supporters of leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador headed to Mexico City on Wednesday, leaving mountain towns and sprawling industrial cities to demand a ballot-by-ballot recount.

Protesters were gathering outside each of the country's 300 electoral districts before heading to the capital, where a mass rally is planned for Sunday to denounce official results showing conservative Felipe Calderon as the apparent winner of the July 2 election.

Lopez Obrador aide Jesus Ortega said late Wednesday that more than 40,000 people had begun their journey and promised that Sunday's demonstration would be ``gigantic.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5947958,00.html