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.

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

UPDATE 3-Mexico's Calderon declared president-elect

Tue Sep 5, 2006 1:27 PM ET
(Updates with court declaring Calderon president-elect)
By Catherine Bremer

MEXICO CITY, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Conservative ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon won Mexico's July 2 election and is president-elect, a top court said on Tuesday after a long fight over fraud claims that has plunged the country into crisis.

Seven judges at Mexico's top electoral court ruled unanimously that pro-business Calderon won by a razor-thin margin of about 234,000 votes out of some 41 million cast.

The judges, whose decision cannot be appealed, had already thrown out leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's claims of massive fraud.

Calderon's victory is good news for the United States as he will be a key ally in Latin America, where left-wing leaders critical of Washington have taken power in recent years.

posted by missionaryman | 11:10 AM

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