Hitler ad fans tensions over Mexico oil reform plan

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

Hitler ad fans tensions over Mexico oil reform plan
Sun Apr 20, 2008 7:30pm BST

MEXICO CITY, April 20 (Reuters) - A political row in Mexico over an oil reform plan intensified at the weekend as a TV ad compared a firebrand leftist leading a siege of Congress to 20th century dictators Hitler and Mussolini.

Funded by a Mexican businessman angry at a 10-day blockade of Congress by opposition left-wing lawmakers, the television ad says the antics of protest leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador are endangering democracy in Mexico.

Leftists seized Congress podiums on April 10 to block a government proposal to lower barriers to private investment in the oil sector, controlled by the state since 1938.

"Who shuts congresses? In 1933, Adolf Hitler in Germany. In 1939, Benito Mussolini in Italy. In 1973, Augusto Pinochet of Chile," it says, over grainy footage of the former Nazi leader, his fascist ally in Italy and Chile's late military dictator.

The 30-second spot was a flashback to conservative ads run in the 2006 election campaign calling the former rights activist and then presidential hopeful a danger to Mexico.



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[AlphaCentauri]

1. The equivalent of the republican party in Mexico

The two organizations who paid for the spots are sympathizer of president Uribe from Colombia and members of an international right wing net that operates in all latin american countries with it's base in Spain and Miami.

El Consejo Ciudadano para la Seguridad Pública y la Justicia Penal is an organization linked to the right wing in the Catholic church, it's president José Antonio Ortega Sánchez was the lawyer of Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, the cardinal of Guadalajara.

Mejor Sociedad Mejor Gobierno is an organization linked to the COPARMEX the Mexican chamber of commerce and the Compromiso Joven y Alianza Sindical Mexicana (ASM) organized by Guillermo Velasco Arzac.

Both Velasco and Ortega are members of the National Action Party (PAN) friends and follower of Vicente Fox and Jorge Castañeda allies of the ex president of Spain Aznar and Uribe of Colombia.

There might be some dirty money involved in this organizations.

[High Plains]

2. This is all over the media down here.

I'm in Mexico City right now, and this is big news. At least in some of the newspapers, the ones friendly to AMLO. The other newspapers emphasize the blockade of parliament.

There is also a big internal fight in the PRD, which I haven't figured out yet.