Fraude Mexico 2006 — part 1 of 10

In this first (of ten) segments of Fraude Mexico 2006, there is a review of Mexican electorial fraud in the past century, beginning with Porfiro Diaz’s attempt to hold on to power in 1910.  Despite and because of the Revolution — which led to lasting social and material progress for the Mexican people — political freedoms have been slow to develop.  According to Lopez Obrador,  it was the attempts by Carlos Salinas de Gortari and the “neo-liberals” to maintain power that disrupted the slow progress towards democratization.

As an example of the neo-liberals (the “right” to Lopez Obrador) willingness to turn to violence, the “legitimate President” uses the example of what happened in Chile following Salvador Allende’s election.  There, a rightist coup killed the President (and a lot of other Chileans) and imposed a neo-liberal economic system on the country.

Much of the segment is taken up with the 1988 elections — “won” by Salinas only after dubious vote counting and suspicious computer counts:  similar to what Lopez Obrador’s supporters believe happened in 2006.

At 5:47 into the segment, we see a meeting of the Electoral Tribunal.  Among the reforms after the botched 1988 election was that Mexican elections were modernized, and considered among the best organized in the world.  Voter registration and the election rules are set by the Elections Institute (IFE), and — disputes are taken to the Electoral Tribunal — the courtroom scene is from 5 September, when the Electorial Tribunal decided on Lopez Obrador’s Coalition’s complaints of widespread voter irregularities by declaring that only the ballots from specific districts presented to the court as examples of fraud — would be examined, and not the election count as a whole.

Very near the end of the segment there is a scene featuring Vicente Fox’s wife, Marta Sahugun.  Her organization, Vamos Mexico — modeled on Eva Peron’s charities — was a political front for Sahugun and her wing of PAN.  Lopez Obrador’s claims of corruption in Vamos Mexico were (he believes) an important factor in what he believes was a stolen election.