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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 09, 2006

Mexican candidate's supporters take over toll booths to demand full vote recount

By Lisa J. Adams
ASSOCIATED PRESS
1:42 p.m. August 8, 2006

MEXICO CITY – Supporters of leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador briefly took over highway toll booths Tuesday, giving thousands of motorists free passage to the capital as they escalated their demands for a full recount in July's close election.

A day before electoral officials were to begin a partial recount, Lopez Obrador's die-hard backers were becoming more radicalized and said they were ready for a protracted fight.

But the fiery former Mexico City mayor who ran his campaign on improving the lot of millions of poor has lost supporters who were turned off by his blockade of the city center.

Some fear that while Lopez Obrador has urged his followers to remain peaceful, he may not be able to prevent demonstrations from erupting in violence.

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