The Great Mexican Standoff - Mexico

Aug 2006
Mexico's election is still in dispute. With a parallel government voted in over the weekend, we witness the stand-off between Obrador and the PRI government.

Since July 2, two million people have squatted 12km of a major road in Mexico City to protest against the election result. "We will not be moved. No! No!" Convinced that he has been kept out of office because he wants to address "the needs of the humble people, the poor," Lopez Obrador demands a recount. Whilst the ruling party declares; "there is no evidence of fraud in one single poll". But, Dr Victor Romero points out the unusual trend that emerged; "Obrador was winning and suddenly at 70%, he started losing". Whether or not the poll was fraudulent, Mexico is now polarised. While the middle class worries about the economy, the poor are radicalised by Obrador's promises of re-distribution.

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[luisofsuburbia]

Great argument, you should go to a psychologist right away and get that half working brain of yours fixed.

[raulsaenz]

aunque tu comentario ya tiene 9 meses, no deja de sorprenderme tu pendejez.

[onstageagain]

@joshuaoha

Couldn't agree with u more... 

[joshuaoha]

@onstageagain As an American whose ancestors have been here since the 1600s, I think that's total nonsense. The "danger" of Latino immigration is greatly exaggerated.

[onstageagain]

Sometimes, its necessary to speak truth to those who appear incapable of basic reason, let alone Truths upon which Freedom does depend. If we allow illegals to remake the means by which R nation makes a citizen,the direction & life of American Citizen will be fatally flawed & corrupted. That relationship to his fellow Americans, laws,common culture & the allegiance they hold to this nation, will forever diverge away from anything that resembles loyalty to US

[jeffagain1]

LucaviAD ur so right,, i wish they would disappear in the face of the earth,,, its like 70% of mexicans are on USA,,,, the funny part is some pregnant women wants their baby born in USA,,, pregnant women are crossing the border,,,,, so fucking humiliating...

[onstageagain]

Have We Had Enough? This is the effect of importing 25 million 3rd world peasants illegally to this country while the Left media pretend they don’t exist. Pretend they r- not reconquistas colonizing the US the way Muslims r- colonizing Europe. as Muslims are trying to turn France, the Netherlands into sharia law controlled nightmares. Mexico’s pumping its unwanted peasants into Ca which these reconquistas are turning into the Thunderdome grade lawless wasteland that is Mexico itself.

[LucaviAD]

@FelixTheHouseFreak

Successful troll is successful. You've responded to a comment intended to get a rise out of you. Learn when you're being manipulated. Oh wait - you're little more than an animal & do good knowing your asshole from the hole in your head. Go die in a ditch & make Jesus happy.

You are dismissed, failtard.

[lacan75]

since 2006 electoral fraud, calderón took the army out in to the streetsw,,,,then he invented his so called war against drugs, so he could justify his militarization of a country that didn´t elect him

[Chapulinazuladomx]

VIVA MEXICO!

[FelixTheHouseFreak]

@LucaviAD Uhh no when he said "brain of yours" , "yours" was the right word to use not "you're". I guess you're the one who cant properly differentiate them.