Mexico on the brink of civil war - censored by illuminati media

The mayor of Mexico City, the country's front-runner in next year's presidential elections, now faces criminal charges after the Congress voted Thursday evening to strip away his immunity from prosecution, paving the way for his removal from office.

An estimated 150,000 Lopez Obrador supporters converged on the central square, the Zocalo, Thursday morning, throwing black and yellow confetti, hoisting signs, freeing balloons and chanting. In anticipation of street riots and social unrest some 3,500 policemen patrolled the downtown streets, helicopters hovered overhead, and tens of thousands of people stayed home from work. The stock market, meanwhile, has tumbled, falling 12 percent this week.

"I have rarely been as concerned as I am today regarding the course of political events unfolding in Mexico," says New York -based Morgan Stanley senior Latin American economist Gray Newman. Congress' decision, he warns, could well lead to a "prolonged bout of political turmoil."

Thursday's 360 to 127 vote by lower house of congress is unprecedented: No elected executive has been stripped of immunity before. If prosecuted and convicted, Lopez Obrador could face up to eight years in prison. He has vowed to continue his fight from behind bars if necessary, but according to most interpretations of Mexican law he would be banned from running for president until the case is resolved - a process which could takes years in Mexico's labyrinthine legal system.

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Mexico on the brink April 4th, 2005

CIA director Porter Goss wasn´t kidding when he put Mexico in with Venezuela, Haiti, Bolivia and Nicaragua as the most unstable countries in the hemisphere. Right now, the potentially dangerous development is political, and may affect us very tangibly in the U.S.

Fox won the election five years ago promising to change Mexico, but ... jobs were not delivered to those who needed them most. In Mexico, that group comprises the majority.

As a substitute for reform, Fox encouraged Mexicans to skip over the border to the U.S., to take up life as illegal aliens - and send dollars back to Mexico. Ten percent of Mexican voters now live in the U.S. legally or illegally, but they account for fifty percent of Mexico´s purchasing power. And they send home enough billions in foreign exchange to make the government in Mexico very comfortable indeed. The Interamerican Development Bank says they sent home $16.6 billion in 2004, up from $10.5 billion in 2000, the year Fox was elected. Fox has called these people ´heroes´ - encouraging U.S. banks to accept Mexican identification cards to ease money transfers in 2002 and permitting his government to print out booklets advising Mexicans how to get over the border illegally but safely by 2005.

But it´s no life to be an illegal alien. If you have ever seen the movie El Norte about the plight of Guatemalan illegal aliens in Los Angeles, you will understand why. The poverty, the exploitation by the migrant rackets, the permanent underclass status, the ease with which aliens can lose everything they´ve worked to build if they are apprehended by law enforcement is heartbreaking. These people are helpless.

Not only that, in the case of Mexico, there are whole villages whose only residents are women and children - all of the men have gone to the U.S. to work illegally - so the children grow up fatherless. This is a huge price to pay just to get a job.

So what do you do if you are a Mexican voter, soon to be offered a choice of three candidates for election, one from the old discredited PRI that ruled and ruined Mexico for 70 years, one from the disappointing new third-way PAN that openly wants you to flee your homeland, abandon your family and send home dollars, or one from a third party in the wings, the PRD party, which has a charismatic mayor of Mexico City running for election on a "stand up for the poor" platform of soup-kitchen spending and sticking it to the U.S.?

It shouldn't surprise anyone that you pick that third candidate if you are a Mexican.

And this reality makes everyone - the other two Mexican parties, the U.S., and the rest of Latin America blanch. For Mexico, the high welfare spending should kill off all potential job growth for everyone except party bureaucrats. For the U.S., there's a potential Hugo Chavez on its border, one who's already talking about an oil alliance with Venezuela. Oil supplier number three teaming up with oil supplier number four to stick it to the gringos sounds like $??? a barrel oil already.

Right now, Mexico's two other parties, PAN and PRI, have conducted legal maneuvers to knock this third-party Mexican mayor out of the presidential race. They are prosecuting him over some road violation, a very trivial technicality. And that's pushed his popularity from 27% to 37% in the three-way race already.

Torpedoing his candidacy but aren't fooling anyone into thinking it's just because they are interested in law and order. By behaving this way, they are making Mexico's bitter, fed-up population even angrier. It amounts to an insult to democracy and contempt for their wishes. It may easily lead to civil unrest....


[edit on 8-4-2005 by MattMarriott]

I don't know about censorship by the media, this story has been on every news site I visit (AP, CNN, Herald, etc) with the exception of FOX, but they are usually slow if the news is not considered "sensational" in their opinion.

Perhaps this is the beginning of the American invasion of Mexico thats always being predicted.

Originally posted by BenWang
Perhaps this is the beginning of the American invasion of Mexico thats always being predicted.

Let me guess...was that a John Titor prediction?

[edit on 8-4-2005 by mpeake]