MexiKos 9/16/06: Today Parallel Gov't Or Popular Resistance to be Forged

[Thanks to FISH for the link!]
by el cid
Sat Sep 16, 2006 at 07:17:40 AM PDT

Are we going to see a "parallel government" declared today in Mexico?

Or an organized, mobilized grassroots "civil resistance" to Mexico's rabid supply sider government policies ("neoliberal" in Latin American discussions)?

What, then?

Hundreds of thousands, perhaps over a million, liberal-left activists are today heading toward Mexico City's downtown plaza (the Zócalo) to the National Democracy Convention to declare something.

Energies are up after Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his co-ralliers pressured outgoing President Fox to give the Independence Day speech (the "Grito") not in the Zócalo but in the alternate location of the small albeit historical town of Dolores Hidalgo.
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