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

Mexican Lawmakers Seek End to Standoff

Nov 30, 3:50 AM EST

By IOAN GRILLO
Associated Press Writer
AP Photo/EDUARDO VERDUGO

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A strange standoff continued in Mexico's Congress as rival legislators refused to stop blocking the platform where conservative President-elect Felipe Calderon wants to be sworn in Friday in front of foreign dignitaries including former President Bush.

Lawmakers sprawled across the chamber's green leather seats Wednesday, many with their feet up and newspapers across their laps. They munched on snacks, drank endless cups of coffee and chatted or sent cell-phone text messages amid sleeping bags and empty food and beverage containers.

Competing banners stretched across the front of the elegant wooden speaker's platform.

"We are defending Democracy," read the conservatives' sign. "Mexico does not deserve a traitor to democracy as president," read the leftists'

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