Mexican 'President' Fecal in Sacramento February 13th

It is the beleif of this author (me) and others that the election that claimed Calderon as winner was stolen, the primary reason being that his opponent, Manuel Obrador was outspoken of his critique of NAFTA and the effects of free trade on the Mexican farmers..

"Incredibly, the chairman of Mexico’s Federal Electoral Institute, has announced its intention to burn all the ballot papers from the hotly-contested Presidential elections.

This outrageous move follows immediately on from the Mexican Supreme Court’s controversial declaration that right-wing candidate Felipe Calderon is the winner of last July’s presidential election. The Supreme Court supported the ‘official’ results which showed Calderon defeating his left-wing opponent, Lopez Obrador, by less 250,000 votes out of the 42 million votes cast.

The Supreme Court’s confirmation was eerily reminiscent of the 2000 American Presidential election, when George W Bush was declared the winner over Democrat Al Gore, despite clear evidence that Gore was the winner."

found @;
http://www.democracyunlimited.org/mexicanelectionscandal.html

Could Manuel Obrador's anti-NAFTA stance have contributed to this hijacking of the election by the pro-globalist elite??

"Mexico Hopeful Takes Hard Line vs. NAFTA"

by Mark Stevenson

"Leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took his hardest line yet against free trade with the United States, saying for the first time Saturday he would not honor Mexico's commitment under NAFTA to eliminate tariffs on U.S. corn and beans.

Tariffs on all agricultural products must be removed in 2008 under the North American Free Trade Agreement. But Lopez Obrador said he won't eliminating tariffs on U.S. white corn and beans if elected, showing no allegiance to a deal he sees as harmful to Mexican farmers.

"We are not going to accept this clause that they signed," Lopez Obrador told supporters in Chiapas, an extremely poor farming state.

He also promised to provide the farmers with guaranteed prices, subsidies and loans on favorable terms, some of which may be questionable practices under NAFTA rules.

With two weeks to go before the July 2 election, the fiery ex-Mexico City mayor is running about even with his main opponent, Felipe Calderon of the conservative governing National Action Party, or PAN.

Mexican farmers say hefty agricultural subsidies in the United States give American white corn and beans an unfair advantage over the Mexican market, which depends in large part on small-scale and mostly subsistence farmers. As Mexico's staple crops, corn and beans also carry immense symbolic importance.

Mexicans worry that if these farmers can't sell the nation's signature crops at a price that competes with trucked-in produce from the United States, they will go out of business altogether.

That could severely damage Mexico's agricultural economy, which farmers say has already suffered since the trade deal went into effect in 1994, forcing many to migrate to the United States.

Mexico's agriculture minister pleaded with Canada and the United States this month to reconsider the removal of the corn and bean tariffs, but U.S. Undersecretary for Agriculture J.B. Penn flatly rejected the appeal, saying "we have no interest in renegotiating any parts of the agreement."

Despite the concern, the administration of outgoing President Vicente Fox has stood by NAFTA, saying Mexico honors its trade commitments."

found @;
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0618-05.htm

People on the west coast could take effective action to Stop Plan Mexico!

This initiative has yet to be made PUBLIC!! Just bits and pieces after three hearings in front of Engel's Western Hemispheric Subcommittee. And all the witnesses pro-PM!

While many oppose in Mexico and in the U.S.

So a demo sounds right on and necessary, especially with good press coverage of why people/orgs like the United Steelworkers, Global Exchange, Witness for Peace, Friends of Brad Will and many mexican organizations oppose it.

BUT WE NEED SOMETHING MORE TOO!

You folks are in California. Please set up a meeting with Speaker Pelosi and another with Tom Lantos (Chair of House Foreign Affairs Committee).

We can stop this thing if they have concerned people meeting with them, prepared with packages of relevant info (Amnesty International Reports, Reporters without Borders (on Brad Will's murder), United Steelworkers press release of why they oppose, Global Exchange memo, Laura Carlsen's piece naming Stopping Plan Mexico one of the top three priorities for creating more fair and just societies in Latin America. and more.

See friendsofbradwill.org under plan mexico and "take action" for more documents to put in packets.

R.