Boot/Shoe, El Paso, Texas, Highway 60/182 (Alameda Street), 2006
Text and Photography by Bruce Berman
Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has called for a ballot-by-ballot review of Sunday’s presidential vote. He says the stability of the country is at stake. Mexico’s Federal Electoral Institute Wednesday began reviewing the totals from polling stations to determine whether Obrador’s rival, Felipe Calderon, really won the election Sunday. A preliminary count showed him ahead by only one percentage point. Both candidates declared victory Sunday night.
Election officials said late Tuesday that Calderon’s lead narrowed to less than a percentage point after they counted 2.6 million votes left out of the original total because of errors on the ballots.
Party representatives may challenge the election results in court once the Federal Electoral Institute releases the figures. Lopez Obrador has said his party is ready for a legal battle.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.
Editor’s Note: If you would like to see how this turns out, please go to Google and type in Post Mexican Revolution. Specifically, note the destinies of the last Men of the People. Zapata went south, Villa went north, soon within a decade, both got whacked (OK, Villa was, allegedly, whacked by a spurned boyfriend of one of Villa’s many conquests, but hey this is surely behavior of a Man Of The People), and, the so-called Ruling Revolutionary Part (PRI) became the butler for the already well established Oligarchy which had, obstensibly, just been disposed.
History can be very tidy if you don’t know any references beyond the Daily newspaper. No?
On the other hand, we need amusement. On the Border we are very far from Mexico and a little too close to the USA (not real close, though), so we fronterizos will look for signs of change related to this election (please go to Streets Get Paved in the Conservatives Win Mexican Election of this weeks Border-Blog).
Or, be really entertained, and continue to read mainstream news. Please add the riff that this time the Oligarchy is worldwide and Mexico is a safe partner for another six years.
Como va Mexico va El Mundo?
As Mexico goes, so goes the world?
Here’s some more. We’ll stop now…this will never end. Look out for the first Corrido we hear that we think you’ll enjoy. If you like to write one, send it to us. We’re new at this but we’ll find a way for our visitor’s to listen to it.
Here’s the latest:
