The polls closed over a week ago. The election is too close to call. Thousands take to the streets demanding a recount as the opposition candidate (who’s already been branded a loser by the international press) assures his supporters that he will fight to the last to get every single one of their votes counted.
Ohio, 2004? The Ukraine, 2004? Venezula, 2002? Or Florida, 2000?
No. It’s Mexico, our neighbor to the south. Last week’s contentious Presidential race— between Felipe Calderon of the ruling, conservative, Party of National Action, and the former mayor of Mexico City, Party of Democratic Revolution candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador—was officially called “too close to call” by the PNA-controlled election commission yesterday.
Greg Palast is, as with so much else, keeping his eye firmly inside the hurricane. For the past week regular dispatches for Mexico City have appeared on his website. They provide a sharp, contrasting picture to the tepid, occasional coverage afforded Mexico by the mainstream press. Even Palast’s sometime employer, the BBC, has already called the election for Calderon, despite the obvious disparity between the exit poll numbers and Election Commission numbers.
Where have we seen that before?
In the Ukraine, barely a month after widespread stories of voter fraud failed to gain traction in America, wild variation between official counts and exit poll tallies led the United Nations (and States) to denounce Ukraine’s fraud-ridden sham of an election. No one (apart from Congressman Conyers and the crying voices of Air America radio) dared to bat an eye at this irony. It passed without notice on these shores.
Now Choicepoint Inc. (the database company responsible for the infamous bogus felon list of Florida, 2000) has lent it services to Calderon’s PNA, turning over reams of data on millions of Mexican citizans that the company collected in clear violation of Mexican law.
Our Glorious Leader has already welcomed Senor Calderon to the international club of right wing, idiot savant politicians…though there’s some dispute between the two leaders as to whether they’ve actually met before.
Together they could make the most powerful barbershop quartet on the planet, once Bush and Calderon joined up with that mad bastard Prime Minister of Canada and whoever’s President of the Dominica Republic this week. They could call themselves The Unelectables and hit triple platinum within a month…so long as Karl Rove is their road manager and Choicepoint their marketing company.
It would be glorious, and just as absurd as what’s already happening out in the real world
Tags: Meican Election Theft George W. Bush Felipe Calderon Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador Greg Palast Choicepoint Inc.
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