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Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Sunday, July 02, 2006

In final rally, Mexico leftist vows to make history

Reuters
By Frank Jack Daniel

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, holding a wafer-thin lead in opinion polls, told over 100,000 supporters gathered in the rain on Wednesday he would make history if he won Sunday's presidential election.

On the last day of a long and bruising campaign, the anti-poverty crusader promised to cut Mexico's wide income gap and give priority to the underprivileged.

"We're going to make history. We are going to bring in a new era in Mexican public life," Lopez Obrador told a rally that filled the capital's Zocalo, one of the world's biggest squares.

No candidate from a leftist party has ever won the presidency, held by the Institutional Revolutionary Party for seven decades until President Vicente Fox won the last election in 2000.

Lopez Obrador, the former mayor of Mexico City, is tantalizingly close. He holds a lead of about 2 points over conservative Felipe Calderon, a former energy minister under Fox

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