Giordano: Mexico's Election Fraud Is Coming Undone

Things are looking worse and worse in Mexico for the Felipe Calderón, his National Action Party, and the Federal Elections Institute that prematurely announced his victory. New evidence of fraud and crimes on the part of the electoral authorities is appearing every day. The White House is backtracking from its initial enthusiasm for Calderón's "victory." Citizens in towns and cities across Mexico are standing up to make sure the crimes they've witnessed and the stealing of their election is known. And Narco News isn't missing a beat.

Over the past week, Al Giordano has filed three parts in an ongoing series about Mexico's post-electoral conflict. In his latest installment, Giordano writes:

"At six p.m. last night, Monday, July 10, neighbors of the office of the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE, in its Spanish initials) in Comalcalco, Tabasco, witnessed a crime against democracy. They didn't just stand there. They did something about it. And this one small example of the fighting spirit of the Mexican people explains why the historic presidential election fraud of July 2, 2006 will not stand.

"Nine days after the fact, neither the IFE, nor President Vicente Fox, nor his National Action Party (PAN), nor their candidate Felipe Calderón, nor the Commercial Media at their service, have been able to reassert control over the juggernaut of facts, audio and video evidence, and public outrage that today tramples their anti- democratic gambit. The Fraud of 2006, and those who attempted it, are drowning under an authentically democratic tide. Take, for example, what just occurred in the Tabasco town of Comalcalco."

Find out what occurred by reading the full story, here, in the Narco News Bulletin:

PART I - http://www.narconews.com/Issue42/article1962.html

PART II - http://www.narconews.com/Issue42/article1967.html

PART III - http://www.narconews.com/Issue42/article1972.html

In addition to fraud and resistance at the local level in cases such as that of Comalcalco, much is happening at the national level as well. Giordano writes:

"On Monday, the PAN party of Calderón and Fox offered another indication that it knows it did not receive enough legitimate votes to sustain its claim that Calderón won the election. After eight days of insisting that there must not be a recount, that it would be 'illegal' to have one, that the Trife judges will never allow it, the PAN filed a motion with the Trife yesterday calling for recounts in six states won by López Obrador: Mexico City, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Guerrero, State of Mexico and Tabasco. It has now adopted the very same legal recourse that, in previous days, the PAN viciously attacked. The legal maneuver reveals the PAN's lack of faith in its own claims that it won the election and also demonstrates that the PAN now believes a recount is, contrary to its public claims, going to occur.

"In the days before, PAN officials claimed that the elections were 'clean, transparent and without irregularities.' The latest move indicates that its spokesmen don't believe their own claims.

"Also on Monday, candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador released a video in which an election official in Salamanca, Guanajuato (the PAN- dominated state that Narco News has compared to Florida in U.S. post- electoral conflicts due to the high concentration of documented irregularities and outright frauds carried out by election officials there) is caught stuffing many ballots into a ballot box. Captured on video, he sports a blue-and-white shirt (PAN's campaign and logo colors) and has quite the guilty look on his face as he stuffs one ballot after another into the box. In the Salamanca district, IFE reported that Calderón received 93,062 votes to 23,278 for Obrador. The video - so newsworthy that even pro-PAN TV Azteca broadcast it yesterday - has further fueled the public anger; an image worth a thousand words and a to-be-determined part of seventy thousand votes."

See an image from that video, and read about many other developments in the conflict, in The Narco News Bulletin. And don't miss all three parts of Giordano's series, with photographic evidence of missing ballots, manipulated vote counts, statistical analysis of the highly suspicious results, and more:

Part I: "In Mexico, 2.5 Million Missing Votes Reappear: López Obrador Reduces Calderón's Official Margin to 0.6 Percent"

http://www.narconews.com/Issue42/article1962.html

Part II: "A Full Recount Would Show that López Obrador Won Mexico's Presidency by More than One Million Votes"

http://www.narconews.com/Issue42/article1967.html

Part III: "Death by Video: Mexico's Election Fraud Is Coming Undone"

http://www.narconews.com/Issue42/article1972.html

http://www.narconews.com

In addition to all this, the popular uprising continues in Oaxaca, where a popular rebellion against the hated state governor, led by the state's teachers, continues to occupy the city center, and has declared a new Popular Assembly to be the legitimate government of the Oaxacan people. Narco News has correspondents and commentators the ground there who continue to file reports.

From somewhere in a country called América,

Dan Feder
Managing Editor
The Narco News Bulletin
http://www.narconews.com

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