In These Times

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• • 01 Aug 06
  • 1:29 pm

  The kind of revolution Mexico needs is not the kind of "revolution" that Lopez Obrador is carrying out. This man, far from being a lefty, is absolutely crazy, obsessed with the idea of reaching the presidency no matter the means. There is an absolut lack of coherence in his speech since he is calling the people to disobey the same laws he issued as a the major of Mexico City! I mean, how can someone be coherent by doing this? Denise Dresser, quoted in this article, yesterday accepted that she made a mistake by giving her vote to Lopez Obrador, who …

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• • 01 Aug 06
  • 3:32 pm

  I do not care to be called a right-winger or whatever, simply things are happening this way in Mexico. Do not forget that the Federal Electoral Court will decide that of the recount for votes. And if that happens, there was at least one supporter of each party in every box office counting the votes too, so how could thousands of LO's supporters were cheated there? They cheated themselves? If you really could understand the concept of social justice, you could see all that is lost by this kind of autoritarian behaviors, thousands of people can't reach their jobs, can't do …

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• • 02 Aug 06
  • 11:29 am

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• • 03 Aug 06
  • 11:55 am

  Hello Mr. Spinoza. I think Mr. Cohen's article clearly reflects that he does not really know the way Mexican politics works. First, LO is not the mayor, he declined in order to be a candidate for the presidency (although as everybody knows, he still holds the authority since Mr. Encinas is just a marionette.) Those rallies are not truly filled with supporters. This people were not there because of them, I mean, the truth is that the expenses are charged to others (of course, the taxpayers.) Many people attends to this events since they have free transportation, food and other resources, …

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• • 05 Sep 06
  • 9:16 pm

  Mr. Cohen, it is good to see you here. By these times, the Federal Electoral Court has declared Calderon as elected president and so many things have happened in the meanwhile. First, I am curious by the way you are trying to find similarities between the US last presidential elections; do you really consider that there is a basis for this? There is no similarity or at least a deep one between the PRD and the opposition to the ruling party and ideologies in the US. The truth is that most of the PRD�s members were loyal PRI members that were …

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