Mexico - How to Contest An Election
Just in case the Mexican election had slipped off your radar — and why wouldn’t it?– this is a reminder of what a free people does when it feels that termites have eaten away at the structure of free elections. (Of course it helps when the candidate himself cares.)
Another demonstration has been called for Sunday, July 30. The aim is to get 2,000,000 folks into the Zocalo. Watch for it NOT to be covered in the U.S. — unless you get Spanish Language stations…
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July 28th, 2006 @ 10:20 am
This is a huge big deal. What’s at stake is American control of Latin America, which is slipping like mad. Governments there are actually working to help the region’s poor. What a novel–and un-American–idea. Jonathan Schell is right, I think: it’s way too late for American empire.
Let’s keep track of what happens on the 30th.