How Should Left Respond to Stolen Mexico Election?Randy Shawbyline‚ Jul. 07‚ 2006If forced to choose between cowardice and violence, we will choose the latter ----Cesar Chavez, quoting Gandhi If America cared about democracy, our political leaders would be demanding that Mexican Presidential candidate Lopez Obrador either be declared the winner of the July 2 election or that a full precinct-by-precinct internationally-supervised recount immediately commence. Yet a nation that has spent $300 billion and ended hundreds of thousands of lives to allegedly bring democracy to Iraq is silent---and perhaps complicit--- as democracy is subverted in adjacent Mexico. Mexico’s progressive forces have already had the 1988 presidential election stolen from them, and walked away without a fight. The Mexican left cannot allow another hijacking of democracy without permanently disillusioning its base, and progressives across the world must get their national, state and local governments to join the demand for a recount. |