CIA Warns of the "Ingovernability" of Mexico (propaganda?)

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http://www.counterpunch.com/

Fox Schemes to Jail Front-Running Leftist


The table is being laid here for a political battle of biblical proportions as the Mexican Congress, under the hammer of the rightist National Action or PAN (the party of President Vicente Fox) and the once-upon-a-time long-ruling (71 years) Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), prepare to strip left-wing Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) of both his office and the immunity from prosecution ("el fuero") it affords him, for the heinous crime of seeking to build an access road to a hospital despite a court order barring him from expropriating a private right-of-way.

If convicted of contempt of court charges in this momentously forgettable imbroglio, Lopez Obrador could be sentenced to prison for up to eight years and would be automatically stripped of his political rights and excluded from next year's presidential election--AMLO has been a ten-point front-runner in the race for the job ever since 2003 mid-term elections.

Long-time political observers here, not just this grizzled veteran of 20 years of partisan felonies, see this PRI-PAN ploy to get rid of Lopez Obrador as one of the dirtiest tricks ever perpetrated in the deviant annals of recent Mexican electoral history, one that indeed spells the end of the line for Mexico's glacial "transition to democracy."

Even the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, in a recent evaluation of security risks in the hemisphere, warns that such a provocative turn of events could so polarize Mexico in anticipation of the 2006 presidential elections as to make this distant neighbor nation "ungovernable."
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let's see: Fox and smirk are buddies. Israel is in Mexico. our border is wide open so Mexicans can do the jobs americans won't do. Cuba is on smirk's 'to do' list. Cuba now has oil, no nukes, but good health care. Fox bought some high speed boats that could in a pinch shoot nuke stuff. many countries have mini subs. and there is always Miami.