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AMLO is going to stand tall on those critical days...

2006-08-17T23:46:00.000-05:00

AMLO is going to stand tall on those critical days in Sept. AMLO and his movment represent true democracy, not this fraud called FECAL who is trying to be imposed on Mexico. This dictator of the right, will never be allowed, and by any means necesary will he and his supporters be stopped.
We have no other choice but to save democracy and freedom in Mexico. ¡Viva AMLO!
¡Solucion O Revolucion!

Ana Maria, Ceci Conolly of the WPost posted a link...

2006-08-15T12:05:00.000-05:00

Ana Maria, Ceci Conolly of the WPost posted a link to your blog today. I have some comments there, some of them are actually fun to read.
On Sunday Lopez gave a concession speech, in his own bitterly defiant fashion. The local media didn't pick up on it but IT IS the major news story since July 2. He publicly acknowledged before his dwindling followers that Calderon will be certifyed president-elect by TEPJF.
The antics that will follow will be something to watch in wonderment.
Ceci's blog:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/mexicovotes/2006/08/what_to_do_but_wait.html

As a former security advicer, what would your advi...

2006-08-15T10:33:00.000-05:00

As a former security advicer, what would your advice be?

Yes, I believe there is more to come...

2006-08-15T00:33:18.466-05:00

Yes, I believe there is more to come...

What is your personal opinion about todays violenc...

2006-08-14T22:47:00.000-05:00

What is your personal opinion about todays violence in the Congress? Do you belive it is going to spread?... Greetings!

It used to be said that international conflicts we...

2006-08-14T17:41:00.000-05:00

It used to be said that international conflicts were of three kinds: 1) When there was a war between two small countries, UNO didn´t pay them any attention. 2) When a small country faced a big one, UNO didn´t pay them any attention, either. 3) When two big countries fought each other. In this case, THEY didn´t pay any attention to UNO.

Something like this happens within México with legal controversies. Poor people would rather have nothing to do with them. A legal fight between a poor person and a rich one, is like a small fish battling a shark.

Pri used to stage some interesting social conflicts. A real popular uprising against the Pri system was ruthlessly supressed, but sometimes what appeared to be one toppled, say, a governor.

The truth was, of course, that the king was throwing out a viceroy, and manipulating the local people to that end. But the people thought that they were getting something. That was the way politics seemed to work, and apparently it didn´t work badly.

But now the king is gone. The president was king not because he was president, but because he was the Big Cacique. And now that the Royal Puppeteer is no longer, what of popular insurgency?

People keep practising politics that way because it seemed to work. They don´t know that it just seemed to work, that the Puppeteer had decided everything beforehand, and that now politics has to be really that, and not a comedy staged form beginning to end from Los Pinos.

When the president tries to act as a president, clowns of several parties mock him: We know that you aren´t the King. They don´t realize that without the king they will have to work at a politics that is truly a building of the Common Good, with laws that are applied and authorities that are obeyed, or else Mob Politics will sweep everything away, even the clowns and the caciques...