Obrador takes risk with Mexico protests
By Sara Miller Llana, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
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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