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Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Obrador takes risk with Mexico protests

Christian Science Monitor

By Sara Miller Llana, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
August 02, 2006

No one was surprised that Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador contested Mexico's July 2 election - the closest in the nation's history - by calling mass street protests and submitting numerous documents alleging fraud.

When he declared himself president to a US-based television network last week, some eyebrows went up. Now he is orchestrating permanent protest camps along a main thoroughfare of the traffic-choked capital in a bid to sway an electoral court to grant a full recount.

Some are wondering: Has he gone too far? The civil resistance campaign, which is causing major disruptions and which some likened to "hostage taking," is dividing a polarized country and could ultimately cost the leftist candidate those supporters who feel he has crossed the line and worry about how far he is willing to go.

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