The latest from south of the border

[UPDATE II AND BUMP]

it was 401,000 only a few hours ago...

Ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon declared Monday that his 370,000-vote lead in Mexico's closest-ever presidential race lead was insurmountable. But his leftist rival refused to concede and electoral officials said they would not declare a winner for days. Leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador huddled in his apartment with close advisers, trying to determine how to challenge results that increasingly indicated a loss. He insisted in a television appearance that he had won, and did not rule out street protests.

this has the potential to get ugly...

[UPDATE]

my concerns about election-stealing may not be solely a figment of my fevered and paranoid imagination... greg palast at buzzflash has the troubling run-down...

Whether the US "War on Terror" lists will find a use in Sunday's election, we cannot know. But the use of American government resources to interfere in south-of-the-border campaigns is an open secret. The GOP's International Republican Institute has run training sessions for the PAN youth wing, funded by US taxpayers through the "National Endowment for Democracy."

it's a squeaker... i'm very concerned about opportunities for election fraud and the potential violence that might ensue... if u.s. elections are vulnerable to tampering, mexican elections are doubly so...

The two candidates were separated by fewer than 401,000 votes, with more than 36 million counted in a preliminary tally by electoral officials. The conservative, Felipe Calderon had 36.6 percent to leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's 35.5 percent, according to results from 91.4 percent of polling places.

i wish they'd STOP labeling amlo as a "leftist..." if a label simply MUST be attached, it would be "progressive..." calling him a leftist simply perpetuates the disinformation spread during the campaign by u.s. political consultants (like dick morris) attempting to link amlo to hugo chavez, a man amlo doesn't even KNOW... (you can't take your eye off u.s. media for one second...)

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