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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.

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Leftists plan to expand protest that has paralyzed central Mexico City

By Mark Stevenson

ASSOCIATED PRESS

2:54 p.m. August 1, 2006

MEXICO CITY – Supporters of a leftist president candidate who are occupying the cultural and financial heart of Mexico's capital said Tuesday they planned to expand protests aimed at pressuring authorities to order an election recount.

The backers of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador – who finished an agonizingly close second place in the official but still uncertified vote count – are considering seizing more streets, and some newly elected officials of his Democratic Revolution Party may refuse to take office in protest.

A more combative atmosphere spread throughout the motley protest camp of hundreds of tents pitched on the asphalt of the city's main Reforma Avenue. The leftist candidate said he owes it to his supporters to keep the protest going until the court agrees to recount all 41 million votes.

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