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, November 30, 2006

Calderón's 1st test is his inauguration

Mexican lawmakers threaten swearing-in ceremony
By S. Lynne Walker
COPLEY NEWS SERVICE
Photo TOMAS BRAVO / Reuters
November 30, 2006

MEXICO CITY – With the clock ticking down to Mexico's presidential inauguration tomorrow, the country faces a new political crisis that threatens to undermine Felipe Calderón's administration.

The solemn congressional chamber where Calderón is scheduled to take the oath of office has been a battleground since Tuesday, when members of the president-elect's conservative party exchanged blows with lawmakers from the defeated leftist party who are trying to block the inauguration.

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