Lopez Obrador isn't fading away quietly
MEXICO CITY - From his protest camp in the Zocalo plaza, losing presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador calls for peaceful insurrection against an illegitimate government, but U.S. and Mexican officials fear his fiery rhetoric could incite violence that the former Mexico City mayor may not be able to control.
Mexico already has a daily example of chaos and violence in the southern state of Oaxaca. There, striking teachers, leftist groups and perhaps even the EPR have taken over the capital's downtown, trashed the state legislature, imposed their own rules, and detained government officials who resist them.
In Mexico City, Lopez Obrador has announced a so-called national democratic convention this Saturday and has called on followers to anoint him either the legitimate president or civil resistance leader. The event could draw a million people, organizers say.
Still, Lopez Obrador plans to give his own "cry" of independence at 11 p.m. Friday to mark the holiday from his sound stage in the massive plaza. If he does so, it would overlap Fox's official "cry" on the balcony of the National Palace, some 50 yards away.
So far, protesters have avoided clashes with police, in part because Lopez Obrador's Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD, runs the capital, and city authorities have openly supported his protest camps, including with government services.
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Mexico already has a daily example of chaos and violence in the southern state of Oaxaca. There, striking teachers, leftist groups and perhaps even the EPR have taken over the capital's downtown, trashed the state legislature, imposed their own rules, and detained government officials who resist them.
In Mexico City, Lopez Obrador has announced a so-called national democratic convention this Saturday and has called on followers to anoint him either the legitimate president or civil resistance leader. The event could draw a million people, organizers say.
Still, Lopez Obrador plans to give his own "cry" of independence at 11 p.m. Friday to mark the holiday from his sound stage in the massive plaza. If he does so, it would overlap Fox's official "cry" on the balcony of the National Palace, some 50 yards away.
So far, protesters have avoided clashes with police, in part because Lopez Obrador's Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD, runs the capital, and city authorities have openly supported his protest camps, including with government services.
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