There's something in this article on the last Presidential election in Mexico I've never heard.

[Judi Lynn]

A New Genre in Mexico: Election Thriller
By Jeremy Schwartz | Saturday, June 30, 2007, 12:00 PM

As the anniversary of last year’s contested presidential election approaches (it’s Monday for those keeping track), Mexico is being bombarded with a slew of books chronicling that fateful day.

At least half a dozen books have been published about the election, most timed to come out around the anniversary. None has been more eagerly anticipated than Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s colorfully titled “The Mafia Stole the Presidency from Us.”

Critics have complained it’s light on new details and surprising insights, but the book does provide some interesting moments: Lopez Obrador claims the vice president of the Televisa network called him at 5 p.m. on election day to tell him he had won (more evidence, he says, that the results were later falsified); he also defends his decision to seize Reforma avenue for much of the summer (experts say that action helped turn public opinion against him) saying he did it to prevent an outbreak of violence.
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“The Dirty War of 2006,” by Jenaro Villamil and Julio Scherer Ibarra is one of the best, and among other themes explores the impact of American political consultant Dick Morris on the election. Eventual President Felipe Calderon hired Morris to help his foundering campaign and the authors argue Morris was responsible for the strategy that defeated Lopez Obrador. Morris reportedly devised a series of attack ads as well as the Calderon campaign’s winning slogan: “Lopez Obrador, A Danger to Mexico.”
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http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/mexico/entries/2007/06/30/a_new_genre_in_mexico_election.html

Interesting, but from it really seems the election was simply stolen away in the middle of the night by the vote counters to those of us who stayed up all night watching the results.

The really ugly part of this is that these scums are going outside the country to assist oligarchy candidates, or, in the case of Venezuela, James Carville, helping the oligarchy, and, in Bolivia, the oligarchy candidate against Morales.

[EFerrari]

1. As soon as I heard Morris was going down there, I knew the fix was in.

I didn't know about Carville, although, it isn't surprising. :mad: