News From the Border

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 17, 2006

Protest over Mexico election will keep going

By Maria Esparza, Special to the Sun
Aug 16, 2006

A civil-resistance movement over Mexico's disputed presidential election will continue in the wake of a clash between police and and demonstrators in Mexico City earlier this week, said a leftist political leader in San Luis Rio Colorado who is taking part in the protest effort.

Federal police erected steel barriers around Mexico's congressional complex and the country's top security official rejected claims of police brutality Tuesday, a day after protesters and riot-control officers engaged in a bloody scuffle outside of federal buildings.

The protesters tried to seal off the congressional building prior to President Vicente Fox's state-of-the-nation address as part of protests over the July 2 presidential race narrowly lost by leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Lopez Obrador alleges the government used electoral fraud to ensure victory by rival candidate Felipe Calderon of the conservative National Action Party.

Petra Santos, a San Luis Rio Colorado resident and member of Lopez Obrador's Democratic Revolutionary Party, called the police crackdown "an act of barbarity."

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