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    • Mexico rape victims often denied right to abortion

      Posted by Billbar from Go.reuters

      Largely Catholic Mexico bans abortion in most cases, but it is legal if the mother becomes pregnant through rape. Still, many public officials ignore that right and even manipulate victims to waive it, activists and federal health workers say. A report by Human Rights Watch to be released later on Tuesday details how courts, medical workers and others systematically break Mexican law allowing abortion in rape cases. "What's presumed here is the guilt of the rape victim," said Marianne Mollmann of Human Rights Watch. "It's the victim that's presumed to be lying, to have wanted the rape."

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    • Mexico 'dirty war' crimes alleged

      Posted by Billbar from BBC News

      In a draft report, released by the US National Security Archive, the authors write: "The authoritarian attitude with which the Mexican state wished to control social dissent created a spiral of violence which... led it to commit crimes against humanity, including genocide."

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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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    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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    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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