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July 9, 2006 at 22:13:57     Permalink "Way to Go, Mexico" Diary Entry by Jayne Lyn Stahl (about the author)

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Mexico City lights up in defiance of a rigged presidential election!

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Estimates put as many as 100,000 people in Mexico's capital yesterday to protest "chicanery" (AP) in the results of their presidential election which declared Felipe "free trade" Calderon a winner. Populist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was among the crowd, and promised the poor, and disenfranchised, of his country that he will not go quietly into the night, but will take his case to Mexico's Supreme Court, if necessary, and have the election declared "illegal." (WaPo)

Interesting, isn't it, how people in Mexico show up to contest rigged presidential elections while, in America, we just press the Snooze button. How many took to the streets of Washington, D.C. to speak out against election fraud in 2000, and whose went to the U.S. Supreme Court to declare the results illegal? Moreover, what kind of twisted logic condemns a woman's right to choose and, at the same time, accepts aborted elections?

We can learn a thing or two from our friends south of the border as we've already had not one, but two stolen elections and, unless we open our eyes, another on the way.

 

Widely published, poet, playwright, essayist, and screenwriter; member of PEN American Center, and PEN USA. Jayne Lyn Stahl is a Huffington Post blogger.

 

 
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