Mexico's Andres Manual Obrador: The Next Hugo Chavez?

[Itsthetruth]

Thousands of Mexicans Protest Congress Mayor Vote
By Catherine Bremer

REUTERS
April 07, 2005

Tens of thousands of angry demonstrators flooded into Mexico City's main square to protest a vote in Congress later on Thursday that could force the popular leftist mayor out of the race for president in 2006.

Lopez Obrador, described by critics as a populist like Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, promises to reduce the huge income gap in Mexico if he becomes president.

"We are proposing a real change, a social, economic, political transformation by peaceful means, by legal ways and through democracy, that is why they don't want my name to appear on the ballots," Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday.

Buoyed by the popularity of public works and welfare programs in Mexico City, Lopez Obrador has led opinion polls for the presidential election for the last 18 months. Pollsters say his popularity would soar if he is jailed because he would look like a martyr for democracy.

http://www.metronews.ca/reuters_international.asp?id=66258

[whistle]

1. Liberals to the left, liberals to the right, liberals in the north and...

...liberals to the south. The neo-conservatives are feeling the heat!:grr:

[KlatooBNikto]

2. The Winds of Change are blowing in from the South and nothing that the

U.S. puppet Vicente Fox can do will stop it from gaining gale force.The days of yankee hegemony in Latin America are drawing to a close.

The same winds will soon start in the Middle East.The puppets Mubarak, the Sauds, the Al Sabahs, the Emirs and Musharraf are going to go the way of the Shah of Iran.

The Democracy that Bush said he wants is going to come,but he is not going to like it!

Ask not for whom the bell tolls------

[Judi Lynn]

3. Another enemy for Bush's list.

They'll have a problem knocking him off easily, as he's dearly loved already, just like Hugo Chavez.

"Democracy" actually doesn't mean much to our right-wingnuts and their obsession with controlling the entire world, especially this hemisphere.

[Itsthetruth]

5. Live TV Coverage Of Mexico's Congress On Your Computer

You can watch live TV coverage of the Mexican Congress session on your computer at this link:

http://www.canaldelcongreso.gob.mx/

[Minstrel Boy]

4. Maybe the NEXT next Chavez. But the next one is Bolivia's Evo Morales.

Evo Morales: MAS Is Ready to rule Bolivia after 10th Anniversary

La Paz, Mar 28 (Prensa Latina) The Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) is ready to rule Bolivia after celebrating the 10th anniversary of its foundation, and has consolidated its position as the first political force in the country, MAS leader Evo Morales said Monday.

The Bolivian leader reiterated his call to govern the country, launched Sunday at a gathering of farmers celebrating the 10th anniversary of the founding of MAS, also know as the Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples.

Evo Morales said that the problem is not winning the elections anymore but knowing how to rule the country. He added MAS has organized technical teams in the economic, social, judiciary and other sectors.

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Morales said the ideological principles of the organization, anti-imperialist and contrary to neoliberalism, are clear and firm but its members have yet to turn them into a programmatic reality. He reiterated the struggle of his party and popular organizations to achieve national unity, a constituent assembly to transform the country, and to develop a new hydrocarbon law which guarantees 50 percent of revenue to Bolivia.

http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B90EBE9EE-BA62-452D-9EEE-3A64CD0E2340%7D&language=EN

[PeaceProgProsp]

6. I wonder if this is all the result of 8 years of Clinton?

Eight years of breathing room from Nixon-Reagan-Bush looks like it was enough to make it hard for Bush-2 to reverse the trend towards democracy.