Mexico - Obrador to convene Democratic Convention Sat, Sep 16

[Annces]

Thursday, September 14, 2006



Dissidents Going For a “new Republic” in Mexico
By Barnard R. Thompson

On Saturday, September 16 – Mexican Independence Day, Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his Party of the Democratic Revolution-led “For the Good of All” coalition will hold a so-called National Democratic Convention in Mexico City. Part of his by hook or by crook efforts to gain the presidency of Mexico, which might best be described with a past definition by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa: “Real politics … has little to do with ideas, values and imagination … and everything to do with maneuvers, intrigues, plots, paranoias, betrayals, a great deal of calculation, no little cynicism, and every kind of con game.”

As for López Obrador, AMLO, who lost the July 2 Mexican election for president, he has the following message for followers about his then and now adversaries: “Let them keep their system of corruption and privileges; let them keep the rottenness and immorality; let them keep their corrupt practices and policies; that’s them.” As for his movement, he said that “(we have decided) to transform Mexico’s public life. We are going to build and establish a new Republic; we are going to govern with one hand and transform with the other.” (Proceso, September 13, 2006)

AMLO is justifying his call for the National Democratic Convention and its goals with Article 39 of the Mexican Constitution: “The national sovereignty resides essentially and originally in the people. All public power flows from the people and is instituted for their benefit. The people at all times have the inalienable right to alter or modify their form of government.”

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http://www.mexidata.info/id1050.html

[mom cat]

1. Viva AMLO!

[Kurovski]

2. Kick.(nt)

[mopinko]

3. show us how, amlo

we need some schoolin' round here.

[Melissa G]

4. This man has 'nads! Way to fight! Would that America tried this hard

to fight for our democracy....How many Mothers might still have their children and Children their parents?...

[mdelaguna2000]

5. inspiring leader (AMLO)- nice Kan Balam image btw

[EFerrari]

6. Muy bien echo. Well done.

:kick:

[Vidar]

7. I have nothing but admiration for Obrador.

[Annces]

8. Free Republic has a thread on it - kind of interesting

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1684421/posts