Mexican Left Creates 'Parallel Gov't'

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President Vicente Fox celebrated Independence Day at the traditional military parade Saturday, while supporters of leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador massed at an outdoor gathering and acclaimed him leader of a "parallel government."

Fox reviewed thousands of military personnel from a vehicle that rolled through the capital's enormous Zocalo square one day after Lopez Obrador's activists agreed to permanently remove squatter camps that have snarled traffic in the capital's center for nearly seven weeks.

Small groups pushed up against barricades holding signs reading "Fox, crook" and "Vote by vote," a reference to their failed demand for a full recount of the July 2 presidential election that Lopez Obrador lost by less than 0.6 percent - a loss he attributed to fraud.

Others in the crowd cheered Fox and the new president-elect, Felipe Calderon of Fox's conservative National Action Party.


http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/88-09162006-713641.html


Thousands gather for a rally in support of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador at Mexico City's Zocalo Plaza, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2006.

[Beelzebud]

1. Look like American style democracy truely is spreading to the world.

Rigged eletions and crooked politicians running the show.