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.

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Lopez Obrador's continuing fight frustrates many

Common belief is Calderon will have messy term if El Peje keeps it up
By TRACEY EATON
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle
Photo: MARCO UGARTE: AP

MEXICO CITY - The fabled Mexican revolution that began in 1910 but was never quite finished will have to stay undone a little longer.

In winning the Mexican presidency officially on Tuesday, conservative Felipe Calderon defeated a leftist rival who vowed to bring radical change to the country.

But Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is continuing his quest for revolution and promises to set up a shadow government aimed at toppling Calderon.

Whether Emiliano Zapata and other historic Mexican revolutionaries would be sharing afterlife tequila shots in the leftist's honor — or spinning in their graves — is uncertain.

"Dangerous times," is how Homero Aridjis puts it.

"Lopez Obrador is destabilizing the country," the Mexican writer said. "Mexico is on the verge of a nervous breakdown."

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