The decision, handed down by Mexico's electoral court, and the controversy leading up to the unanimous ruling, has split the nation of more than 100 million people along class lines.
After the July 2 election, officials said Calderon, a Harvard-educated lawyer and career politician, had edged out Lopez Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor with ardent support among the poor by a slim margin; less than 0.6 per cent of the vote or about 240,000 ballots.
Populist candidate Lopez Obrador and his supporters alleged the poll was rigged, sparking mass protests and legal battles.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/mexico/
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We need a peoples shadow government because the ruling establishment creates governments that do not work for the people, nor are they even elected by the people. For example, Harper got only 23% of the eligible vote, leaving 77% of the people disenfranchised. I expect to see a continued trend towards voter apathy - why bother voting once it becomes obvious that your vote is meaningless?
The only reason I voted in the last election was to drop a $1.75 in the bank account of the Greens. If not for that funding oddity, I would have stayed at home and done something many times more meaningful.
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Michael
Now I want to see what happens in Mexico, I fear a civil war.
- Justice Louis Brandeis
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Michael
The US may intervene, but that will stretch them so far that they'd have to pull out of the Middle East, and then the'd just be fighting another insurgency, only this time in North America.
So BRING IT ON! Can you hear the drums, Fernando?
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“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous, the essential act of warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour”
One senator asked him if he was Americanizing the Senate? He sneered and said I was wondering when that question would come up. I wonder why he was wondering about that?
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"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Friedrich Nietzsche
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"We can have a democracy or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few. We cannot have both."
- Justice Louis Brandeis
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"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Friedrich Nietzsche
Hugo Chavez in Venezuela has demonstrated that there are more ways to win over government than just force. Although he is President there are still governors, mayors, and bereaucrats that have resisted his reforms. Instead of confronting them, he has constructed parallel organizations that simply bypassed the obstructors in order to get things done: and its working beautifully.