Re: Mexico's Fixed Election

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not an editorial cartoonist for a US newspaper, but if I were, I'd draw a cartoon of the map of Mexico being transformed into that of Florida. (It's strange that no-one in the offical US press seems to draw Florida 2000/Mexico 2006 parallels.)

On 7/8/06, Alejandro Valle Baeza <valle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

ZNet | Mexico

Mexico's Fixed Election

by Stephen Lendman; July 07, 2006

What do these presidential elections all have in common: Mexico, 1988, US, 2000, US, 2004, Colombia and Peru, 2006 and the just concluded Mexican election on July 2? In each case, the outcome was "arranged" and known in advance before voters went to the polls. They're what economist and media and social critic Edward Herman calls "Demonstration Elections" - the characterization and title he gave his 1980s book analyzing and documenting sham elections in the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and Vietnam. Professor Herman is an expert, and although his book was written over 20 years ago, it's clear little has changed except for the added sophistication gained since then in the ability of officials to make elections turn out the way they wish. The same fraud occurs in many countries, and Professor Herman might have included many others besides the ones he chose but had he done so he'd have had to have written a book with no end.

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Jim Devine / "Socialist democracy is not a luxury  but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism." -- Ernest Mandel