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Caribbean-Latin America
Supporters of Mexican Leftist Candidate Take Over City Toll Booths
2006-08-09
Supporters of leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took over toll booths surrounding Mexico City for several hours Tuesday, giving motorists free passage into the metropolis.
“We are going to transform our country and this is going to happen one way or the other...”
The takover came a day after the former Mexico City mayor said his protests over alleged fraud in July 2 presidential elections, which have already clogged the city's center, will transform into a long-term radical movement to change the nation.

Lopez Obrador, who claims electoral officials tried to rig the vote, told a crowd of about 5,000 supporters on Monday that his movement is just beginning. "We are going to start a movement for the transformation of the nation's institutions," Lopez Obrador said. "We are going to transform our country and this is going to happen one way or the other."
Posted by:Fred

#4  "we will take our protest from the voting booths to the...uh...toll booths...to the....um...phone booths...to the ...'4 pictures on a strip of film' tourist booths...to the ....Yeeaarrggghhhh!!"
Posted by: Frank G   2006-08-09 22:59  

#3  From a third-rate oligarchy, into a fourth-rate one.
Posted by: Pappy   2006-08-09 22:43  

#2  "We are going to start a movement for the transformation of the nation's institutions"

Into... what?
Posted by: eLarson   2006-08-09 09:53  

#1  Shhhh... No one tell them the election is over...They get to vote all over again....campaign time...

Posted by: Thoth   2006-08-09 00:59  

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