Mexico's president-elect grounded for hours on commercial flight after he refuses to use luxury jet

[Judi Lynn]

8. He's not grandstanding, he's making a point. He can use a smaller, efficient airplane easily.

I could never buy an attack on this man as being political, as he has been working for the poor for decades. That's why million of Mexican citizens made their way to the town center in Mexico City when it was announced he "lost" to Felipe Calderón in 2006, and stayed there for many weeks, coming from all points in Mexico, leaving their homes, jobs, to stand in wait, demanding a recount, and rightly so.

He would never need to do a thing to have the total attention of a country which loves him this much. You might want to spend a moment learning more about this former Mayor of Mexico City, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.











Leftist protest paralyzes Mexico City
updated 8/1/2006 3:55:45 AM ET

MEXICO CITY — Supporters of Mexico’s leftist presidential candidate brought rush-hour traffic to a crawl Monday, causing the stock market to drop and forcing office workers dressed in business suits and high heels to hike for miles to work.

The sprawling tent cities in the financial heart of the Mexican capital were another sign that Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and his supporters won’t accept anything less than victory from the top electoral court.

The tribunal is weighing allegations that fraud gave ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon a slight advantage in the July 2 election. It has until Sept. 6 to declare a president-elect or annul the elections.

Lopez Obrador is demanding a vote-for-vote recount, and has vowed to block the city center until the Federal Electoral Tribunal rules on his request.

Mexico’s stock market opened lower Monday, a sign the protests were making investors nervous.

“We’ll stay here for as long as it takes, but we’re not going to let them impose a president on us,” said farmer Anacleto Garcia Martinez, 53, as he warmed his coffee on a wood-burning brazier set up beneath a tarp strung from the wrought-iron gate leading to Chapultepec Park.

More:
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/14119697/ns/world_news-americas/t/leftists-supporters-paralyze-mexico-city-center/#.W6UdDGhKjIU