Death by Video: Mexico’s Election Fraud Is Coming Undone
Video and Audio Evidence, an Outraged Citizenry, and Panic from the White House Are Converging to Make López Obrador the Next Mexican President
By Al Giordano
Part III of a Special Series for The Narco News Bulletin
July 11, 2006
At six p.m. last night, Monday, July 10, neighbors of the office of the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE, in its Spanish initials) in Comalcalco, Tabasco, witnessed a crime against democracy. They didn’t just stand there. They did something about it. And this one small example of the fighting spirit of the Mexican people explains why the historic presidential election fraud of July 2, 2006 will not stand.
Nine days after the fact, neither the IFE, nor President Vicente Fox, nor his National Action Party (PAN), nor their candidate Felipe Calderón, nor the Commercial Media at their service, have been able to reassert control over the juggernaut of facts, audio and video evidence, and public outrage that today tramples their anti-democratic gambit. The Fraud of 2006, and those who attempted it, are drowning under an authentically democratic tide. Take, for example, what just occurred in the Tabasco town of Comalcalco
.
A picture saves 70,000 votes: Monday night in Comalcalco, Tabasco.
Photo: D.R. 2006 La Jornada
Study this photograph from today’s La Jornada. A campaign truck covered with PAN party logos, slogans, and the faces of three of their candidates – the one in the middle is Calderón – is parked in front of a building. From the balcony of the colonial-style structure shines an illuminated sign with three large letters: I… F… E. Citizens have arrived by foot and by bicycle and have blocked the entrances to the IFE building and the PAN truck. Not all of them appear in the photo, but there are 500 of them and they are hopping mad. Trapped inside are at least ten IFE officials who, according to eyewitnesses, illegally entered the building, brought sealed ballot boxes out into the patio, and began to open them, breaking the official seals. They were seen revising anew the “actas” with the vote tallies and recounting the ballots, without, as the law requires, the presence of representatives from all the political parties. The neighbors sounded the alarm and the electoral delinquents have been caught in the act.
Where are the soldiers of the Mexican Army that supposedly are guarding the ballot boxes at the 300 IFE offices like this one throughout the country? What about the police? The events last night in Comalcalco reveal the ugly truth: the highest authorities of the nation, in their complicity with an obvious electoral fraud, have forfeited their legitimacy and the people have self-organized to fill the power vacuum. They have converted the IFE offices into a prison for white-collar criminals and have seized the PAN truck that, the neighbors believe, was waiting to carry their votes to democracy’s graveyard.
La Jornada reports:
“The electoral assistants argued that the (IFE) district council president, Tomás Alfonso Castellanos, told them to enter the offices and for that reason the military soldiers that guarded the locale allowed them to enter.”
The IFE electoral district with its seat in Comalcalco delivered a punishing 70,000 vote margin of victory to presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) over the PAN’s Calderón: 73,473 for Obrador vs. only 3,863 for Calderón. Voter turnout in this district, at 70.08 percent, exceeded the national average of 58.9 percent. The PAN has almost no votes to protect in Comalcalco. The PAN party truck – now held by the citizens – was there to haul away and “disappear” the votes cast for Obrador.
When local PRD officials contacted the IFE boss in the Tabasco state capital of Villahermosa, Aída Castillo, to report the tampering of the ballots and ask about the alibi that the IFE had authorized the opening of sealed ballot boxes, Castillo, reports La Jornada, said she was “surprised” by the news. The locals then contacted a notary public to come take legal testimony about the unauthorized break-in. PRD officials then headed to the offices of the Special Prosecutor for Attention to Electoral Crimes in Villahermosa to file a legal complaint. Federal Senator César Raúl Ojeda of the PRD, a close ally of López Obrador, headed to Comalcalco as La Jornada filed its story last night and, at press time, the ten IFE officials and the PAN truck chauffer, caught red-handed, were still held prisoner inside the offices.
IFE Official in the PAN-stronghold of
Salamanca, Guanajuato, caught on
video tape, stuffs a ballot box.
Photo: D.R. 2006 La Jornada
Also on Monday, candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador released a video in which an election official in Salamanca, Guanajuato (the PAN-dominated state that Narco News has compared to Florida in U.S. post-electoral conflicts due to the high concentration of documented irregularities and outright frauds carried out by election officials there) is caught stuffing many ballots into a ballot box. Captured on video, he sports a blue-and-white shirt (PAN’s campaign and logo colors) and has quite the guilty look on his face as he stuffs one ballot after another into the box. In the Salamanca district, IFE reported that Calderón received 93,062 votes to 23,278 for Obrador. The video – so newsworthy that even pro-PAN TV Azteca broadcast it yesterday – has further fueled the public anger; an image worth a thousand words and a to-be-determined part of seventy thousand votes. (As soon as someone gets it online, Narco News will link to it; in the meantime, here is a photo of the perp caught in the act.)
Video, audio and photographic evidence of election fraud surges daily. It is the dominant news story in Mexico. Obrador released a similar video of election officials in PAN-controlled Querétaro changing the vote tallies to create more votes for its candidate. The PAN does not deny the facts. It simply claims that those cases amounted to normal, allowed, functions by election officials. The public temper rises with every such justification.
On Saturday, during a massive “informational assembly” on the Mexico City Zócalo, Obrador played hardball. Through the speakers, before half-a-million people, he played audiotape of an election-day telephone conversation between Fox’s transportation secretary Pedro Cerisola and Tamaulipas Governor Eugenio Hernández Flores, and of a similar conversation between that same governor and the detested national teachers’ union president Elba Esther Gordillo. The full transcription of those conversations can be read in Spanish here. The governor of that northern Gulf of Mexico border state is a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and so is the teachers’ union leader. On the tape, she tells the governor that his party’s candidate, Roberto Madrazo, is, according to exit polls, far behind, and urges the PRI governor to contact PAN candidate Felipe Calderón “to sell him what you have,” because “the PRI has already fallen.” She repeats: “Given the fall, I think it would be interesting for you to speak with Felipe (Calderón) and sell it to him.”
Gordillo said, in that recorded telephone conversation, that she knew that “the hard vote has already been cast.” Clearly she wasn’t trying to convince the PRI governor to turn out new votes for Calderón. The only thing the governor would have available to “sell” at that point in the Election Day was how the votes would be counted. The governor, Hernández, thanked her for her call and reassured her, “yes, I think everything is going well.” He also offered to call a neighboring PRI governor in Coahuila to cut the same deal. In the taped conversation with the Secretary of Transportation, the governor pledged to speak with the rest of the PRI governors – indicating they had a meeting scheduled in Toluca that day – saying, “sure, we are with this… that’s how it is. That is our conviction and that is how a group of friends and colleagues decided some weeks ago when we saw that this could close this way, that it could occur.”
Full Report: http://www.narconews.com/Issue42/article1972.html
Election Fraud News - QueVivaMexico--Massive Fraud-Summary
In addition, it was learned that Felipe Calderon's brother-in-law Diego Hildebrando Zavala wrote the vote-counting software, and it's already been hacked. This new discovery is especially disturbing as whoever controls the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) computer systems can manipulate the vote process, control which votes get counted, which ones don't, and what the final vote tally will be. The opportunity and temptation for fraud was therefore in the hands of the declared winner's close family member and ally with every reason to believe he'd take full advantage.Stephen LendmanthePeoplesVoice.org
…and that’s one of the many reasons the people are in the streets. They know the score.
Click Here for NarcoNews, thePeoplesVoice.Org reports and more!http://www.electionfraud.news.com/
By Al Giordano
Part III of a Special Series for The Narco News Bulletin
July 11, 2006
At six p.m. last night, Monday, July 10, neighbors of the office of the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE, in its Spanish initials) in Comalcalco, Tabasco, witnessed a crime against democracy. They didn’t just stand there. They did something about it. And this one small example of the fighting spirit of the Mexican people explains why the historic presidential election fraud of July 2, 2006 will not stand.
Nine days after the fact, neither the IFE, nor President Vicente Fox, nor his National Action Party (PAN), nor their candidate Felipe Calderón, nor the Commercial Media at their service, have been able to reassert control over the juggernaut of facts, audio and video evidence, and public outrage that today tramples their anti-democratic gambit. The Fraud of 2006, and those who attempted it, are drowning under an authentically democratic tide. Take, for example, what just occurred in the Tabasco town of Comalcalco
.A picture saves 70,000 votes: Monday night in Comalcalco, Tabasco.
Photo: D.R. 2006 La Jornada
Study this photograph from today’s La Jornada. A campaign truck covered with PAN party logos, slogans, and the faces of three of their candidates – the one in the middle is Calderón – is parked in front of a building. From the balcony of the colonial-style structure shines an illuminated sign with three large letters: I… F… E. Citizens have arrived by foot and by bicycle and have blocked the entrances to the IFE building and the PAN truck. Not all of them appear in the photo, but there are 500 of them and they are hopping mad. Trapped inside are at least ten IFE officials who, according to eyewitnesses, illegally entered the building, brought sealed ballot boxes out into the patio, and began to open them, breaking the official seals. They were seen revising anew the “actas” with the vote tallies and recounting the ballots, without, as the law requires, the presence of representatives from all the political parties. The neighbors sounded the alarm and the electoral delinquents have been caught in the act.
Where are the soldiers of the Mexican Army that supposedly are guarding the ballot boxes at the 300 IFE offices like this one throughout the country? What about the police? The events last night in Comalcalco reveal the ugly truth: the highest authorities of the nation, in their complicity with an obvious electoral fraud, have forfeited their legitimacy and the people have self-organized to fill the power vacuum. They have converted the IFE offices into a prison for white-collar criminals and have seized the PAN truck that, the neighbors believe, was waiting to carry their votes to democracy’s graveyard.
La Jornada reports:
“The electoral assistants argued that the (IFE) district council president, Tomás Alfonso Castellanos, told them to enter the offices and for that reason the military soldiers that guarded the locale allowed them to enter.”
The IFE electoral district with its seat in Comalcalco delivered a punishing 70,000 vote margin of victory to presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) over the PAN’s Calderón: 73,473 for Obrador vs. only 3,863 for Calderón. Voter turnout in this district, at 70.08 percent, exceeded the national average of 58.9 percent. The PAN has almost no votes to protect in Comalcalco. The PAN party truck – now held by the citizens – was there to haul away and “disappear” the votes cast for Obrador.
When local PRD officials contacted the IFE boss in the Tabasco state capital of Villahermosa, Aída Castillo, to report the tampering of the ballots and ask about the alibi that the IFE had authorized the opening of sealed ballot boxes, Castillo, reports La Jornada, said she was “surprised” by the news. The locals then contacted a notary public to come take legal testimony about the unauthorized break-in. PRD officials then headed to the offices of the Special Prosecutor for Attention to Electoral Crimes in Villahermosa to file a legal complaint. Federal Senator César Raúl Ojeda of the PRD, a close ally of López Obrador, headed to Comalcalco as La Jornada filed its story last night and, at press time, the ten IFE officials and the PAN truck chauffer, caught red-handed, were still held prisoner inside the offices.
IFE Official in the PAN-stronghold of
Salamanca, Guanajuato, caught on
video tape, stuffs a ballot box.
Photo: D.R. 2006 La Jornada
Also on Monday, candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador released a video in which an election official in Salamanca, Guanajuato (the PAN-dominated state that Narco News has compared to Florida in U.S. post-electoral conflicts due to the high concentration of documented irregularities and outright frauds carried out by election officials there) is caught stuffing many ballots into a ballot box. Captured on video, he sports a blue-and-white shirt (PAN’s campaign and logo colors) and has quite the guilty look on his face as he stuffs one ballot after another into the box. In the Salamanca district, IFE reported that Calderón received 93,062 votes to 23,278 for Obrador. The video – so newsworthy that even pro-PAN TV Azteca broadcast it yesterday – has further fueled the public anger; an image worth a thousand words and a to-be-determined part of seventy thousand votes. (As soon as someone gets it online, Narco News will link to it; in the meantime, here is a photo of the perp caught in the act.)
Video, audio and photographic evidence of election fraud surges daily. It is the dominant news story in Mexico. Obrador released a similar video of election officials in PAN-controlled Querétaro changing the vote tallies to create more votes for its candidate. The PAN does not deny the facts. It simply claims that those cases amounted to normal, allowed, functions by election officials. The public temper rises with every such justification.
On Saturday, during a massive “informational assembly” on the Mexico City Zócalo, Obrador played hardball. Through the speakers, before half-a-million people, he played audiotape of an election-day telephone conversation between Fox’s transportation secretary Pedro Cerisola and Tamaulipas Governor Eugenio Hernández Flores, and of a similar conversation between that same governor and the detested national teachers’ union president Elba Esther Gordillo. The full transcription of those conversations can be read in Spanish here. The governor of that northern Gulf of Mexico border state is a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and so is the teachers’ union leader. On the tape, she tells the governor that his party’s candidate, Roberto Madrazo, is, according to exit polls, far behind, and urges the PRI governor to contact PAN candidate Felipe Calderón “to sell him what you have,” because “the PRI has already fallen.” She repeats: “Given the fall, I think it would be interesting for you to speak with Felipe (Calderón) and sell it to him.”
Gordillo said, in that recorded telephone conversation, that she knew that “the hard vote has already been cast.” Clearly she wasn’t trying to convince the PRI governor to turn out new votes for Calderón. The only thing the governor would have available to “sell” at that point in the Election Day was how the votes would be counted. The governor, Hernández, thanked her for her call and reassured her, “yes, I think everything is going well.” He also offered to call a neighboring PRI governor in Coahuila to cut the same deal. In the taped conversation with the Secretary of Transportation, the governor pledged to speak with the rest of the PRI governors – indicating they had a meeting scheduled in Toluca that day – saying, “sure, we are with this… that’s how it is. That is our conviction and that is how a group of friends and colleagues decided some weeks ago when we saw that this could close this way, that it could occur.”
Full Report: http://www.narconews.com/Issue42/article1972.html
Election Fraud News - QueVivaMexico--Massive Fraud-Summary
In addition, it was learned that Felipe Calderon's brother-in-law Diego Hildebrando Zavala wrote the vote-counting software, and it's already been hacked. This new discovery is especially disturbing as whoever controls the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) computer systems can manipulate the vote process, control which votes get counted, which ones don't, and what the final vote tally will be. The opportunity and temptation for fraud was therefore in the hands of the declared winner's close family member and ally with every reason to believe he'd take full advantage.Stephen LendmanthePeoplesVoice.org
…and that’s one of the many reasons the people are in the streets. They know the score.
Click Here for NarcoNews, thePeoplesVoice.Org reports and more!http://www.electionfraud.news.com/
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