Mexico: Fox runs away because the people demand democracy.

Fox is going 170 miles north of Mexico to deliver the Mexican revolutionary should because he can't do it in the Zocalo in Mexico City, the site of the protests by the Mexican democracy movement of Lopez Obrador and the PRD, probable winners of the presidential election. The Mexican Senate voted unanimously that Fox deliver "the grito" in Mexico City just before Fox backed off and announced he was high tailing it out of town

Fox to deliver ´grito´ in Dolores Hidalgo
President moves annual celebration to
Guanajuato after protesters threaten ceremony

Wire services
El Universal
September 15, 2006

President Vicente Fox backed away from another showdown with Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Thursday, announcing that he wouldn´t hold the annual Independence Day celebration in the capital´s main Zócalo square to avoid protesters.

López Obrador and his supporters had vowed to upstage Fox by refusing to take part in Friday´s annual salute of "Viva Mexico!" delivered each year by the president. They are planning to take over the Zócalo for their own celebration, and some had feared clashes if pro-government revelers showed up.

Fox will move his ceremony to the small, central town of Dolores Hidalgo, 170 miles (270 kilometers) northwest of Mexico City, where Roman Catholic priest Miguel Hidalgo launched the first call for independence from Spain in 1810. The town is located in Fox´s home state of Guanajuato, a bastion of support for his conservative National Action Party (PAN).

Interior Secretary Carlos Abascal made the announcement shortly after the Senate voted unanimously to recommend that Fox not travel to the Zócalo.

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