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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.

Thursday, August 10, 2006

Mexico leftists target foreign banks in protest

Reuters
August 09, 2006

It will be at risk if the PRD persists with this attitude, with its violent discourse and its attempt to divide the country, split it between rich and poor, right and left, oppressors and oppressed

By Kieran Murray

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Thousands of Mexican leftists blockaded the offices of three major foreign-owned banks on Wednesday in a new protest to force a full recount in a July 2 presidential election they claim was rigged.

Protesters surrounded Mexico City offices of U.S.-based Citigroup's Mexican unit Banamex, the Bancomer bank owned by Spain's BBVA and the British giant HSBC They sat on the ground around the buildings and vowed to block access for several hours.

The leftists are backing Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who narrowly lost the presidential vote to conservative ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon and claims it was rigged.

Election officials were to begin a recount of votes from 9 percent of polling stations on Wednesday in a bid to clear up the allegations and calm a crisis that has split the country.

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