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      Mexico's election agency considered clean

      Posted by j1o2n3a4s5 from San Jose Mercury News

      Mauricio Merino served on the IFE's governing board from 1996 to 2003. He said he believes the electoral body is getting a bad rap. It could have communicated better, he said, but the blame lies on politicians and not election authorities for the tension that exists.

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      Mexico conservative creeps toward slim victory

      Posted by Billbar from Reuters

      Mexico's conservative presidential candidate Felipe Calderon declared victory on Monday in a bitterly contested election and official returns appeared to show his leftist rival could no longer catch him. Calderon had a lead of almost 400,000 votes over Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador with returns in from almost 98 percent of polling stations and a senior election official said it was unlikely to change with a recount ordered for later this week.

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      Mexico's oil bonanza starts to dry up

      Posted by j1o2n3a4s5 from SFGate.com

      There is a huge amount at stake in the upcoming Mexican elections – for Americans as much as for the Mexicans themselves. This article explores a much overlooked problem (the depletion of Mexico’s oil reserves) and, equally unusually, shows how the two major candidates for the Mexican presidency will seek to tackle it. For the U.S., argues Robert Collier, the neo-liberal candidate Felipe Calderon would open up the oil sector to foreign investment (read Halliburton et al) while failing to invest in value adding refining facilities. Obrador, on the other hand, seems keen to reduce Mexican dependency on the U.S. by building long overdue refineries. Here is the key challenge to the U.S. elite, who gain massively from Mexico’s dependent status.

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      Mexico at crossroads in election thriller

      Posted by Billbar from Reuters

      Mexico will decide whether to join the growing leftist camp in Latin America or stick with a free-market path in a presidential election on Sunday that is balanced on a knife-edge. Polls show an extremely close race between leftist anti-poverty crusader and former Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and conservative Felipe Calderon, a former energy minister from the ruling party.

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    jbpopnoe comments on:

    Operation Wetback: Illegal Immigration Myths

    General IKE also said ” BEWARE THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX ”

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    1:26 pm 1/30/08
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    Damianmann comments on:

    Mexico left names own "president"

    This could also emerge as a serious revolution in the making.

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    7:36 pm 9/17/06
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    Damianmann comments on:

    3 Border police beheaded 3 weeks ago. Media doesn't cover story.

    there's another site covering this story called Plantek. But, they blame "the liberal media"...in spite of the fact that Fox and known conservative outlets also didn;t cover the story

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    8:19 pm 7/19/06
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    j1o2n3a4s5 comments on:

    In Mexico, 2.5 Million Missing Votes Reappear

    http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/360380.html

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    9:56 pm 7/05/06
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    j1o2n3a4s5 comments on:

    In Mexico, 2.5 Million Missing Votes Reappear

    Candidatos Presidenciales: Andr?Manuel L? Obrador: 36.51 % Felipe Calder?34.74 % Roberto Madrazo: 22.2 % Patricia Mercado: 2.71 % Roberto Campa: 0.94 % Margin: Obrador up by 1.79% Commentary: Manuel Camacho Solis of the Obrador campaign told reporters today that the IFE held back Calderon precincts until the very last, and that he expected the results to shift. A PAN spokesman accused the PRD of slowing down the counting in Calderon country. The PRD - although in the lead for the entire day - still insists it wants a full hand-count of all the votes. The PAN - although trailing all day - still opposes a full hand-count. Here is another indication of suspicious activity: the tallies for Madrazo, Mercado and Campa have remained the same ALL DAY. Even when Obrador's numbers began to shift, theirs did not. Spooky, eh? Meanwhile, if after watching a consistent result for the first 70 percent or so of the tallying, the public finds it suspicious that the tallies are suddenly shifting, watch for that pain and rage to explode very, very shortly.

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    9:53 pm 7/05/06
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    j1o2n3a4s5 comments on:

    In Mexico, 2.5 Million Missing Votes Reappear

    IFE employee Loar Cibac Pereira S?hez in one of the electoral agency's regional offices (in Saltillo, Coahuila) confirms that on Sunday night, as he was entering election results into the IFE PREP system computers, his boss, Jos?uis Fern?ez Mier, "ordered him to enter the vote tallies favorable to Calderon Hinajosa and threatened to transfer him to a rural office if he didn't obey." "The young man said that a strange blackout occured in the district IFE office, and when the light returned the results in the computer had changed and the PAN was then in the lead. He also said that when he was leaving alone he found some garbage cans outside the building with blank precinct and computer forms."

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    9:49 pm 7/05/06
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    j1o2n3a4s5 comments on:

    In Mexico, 2.5 Million Missing Votes Reappear

    IFE were caught red-handed in a big lie: their knowingly false claim that the preliminary results system had tabulated %u201C98.5 percent%u201D of the vote when, in fact, the IFE had hidden 3.3 million (more than seven percent) of the precinct tallies from public view.

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    9:40 pm 7/05/06
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