tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-731271236101732120.post1919634783418577686..comments2022-05-30T16:12:33.140-05:00Comments on MGR - the Mexico Gulf Reporter: Mexican court rejects leftist bid to void July 1 presidential election; end of the road for PRD, Manuel López ObradorEdward V. Byrnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15004474349762010489noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-731271236101732120.post-72809240318875708542012-08-31T08:55:46.064-05:002012-08-31T08:55:46.064-05:00Sure I have a link . . . several links, in fact. ...Sure I have a link . . . several links, in fact. Read the half dozen or so articles I wrote about YoSoy, including those covering their three marches here in Merida in May and June (each of those articles in turn has its own links, a number of them to Spanish news sources).<br /><br />What happened was almost comical. At a rally one Sunday in June, for instance, the local YoSoy leader started the program by reminding all attendees that the movement was strictly non-partisan - they were about the process, in other words, not the candidate. Then there was a long "open-mike" session - two hours or more, literally, where anyone and everyone could speak. Dozens did so, all of them railing against EPN, and not a few urging participants to vote for AMLO.<br /><br />The same thing more or less happened at other meetings. Look at the photos I published with my articles - they prove exactly what YoSoy is/was all about. And the same thing happened all over Mexico, as was reported by dozens of press sources for weeks. Local YoSoy leaders refused to meet with me, by the way, to answer questions.<br /><br />I agree with your analogy to Occupy Wall Street, to some extent. Were all OWS marchers anti-Republican or pro-Democrat? Probably a lot, but not all, by any means. I think OWS was a much broader, more all-encompassing movement which spoke with many voices. The only thing everybody shared was being "fed up" with a broken political and (arguably) economic system.<br /><br />YoSoy was crassly political and crassly partisan from its launch in May. And it still refuses to acknowledge so! As I've written several times before, anybody in this country can advocate anything they want. But when they call for national dissent and the blocking of a democratically elected president from taking office, they become just one thing, according to my poly sci textbook: enemies of freedom.Edward V. Byrnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15004474349762010489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-731271236101732120.post-82071085972123821832012-08-31T06:13:12.039-05:002012-08-31T06:13:12.039-05:00Ed, you said YoSoy "flat out lied about who t...Ed, you said YoSoy "flat out lied about who they were. . ." I wish you had a link which might help me unpack this statement (which I'm not disputing, but simply trying to grasp). I've mentally imagined YoSoy132 to be an analog of the Occupy Wall Street movement, here in US, having no leadership or agenda — which I gather that YoSoy did develop as a goal, ie: to contest Peña Nieto's favored status in and by the media. ~eric. MeridaGOround.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-731271236101732120.post-4877613903092435732012-08-31T01:10:29.509-05:002012-08-31T01:10:29.509-05:00I'm monitoring the situation right now, but I ...I'm monitoring the situation right now, but I think the demonstration last night was fairly tame - maybe some pushing and shoving, a few arrests, but nothing more.<br /><br />Of course, there are still three full months left before EPN is sworn in on Dec. 1. A lot could happen before then, especially if AMLO announces at his press conference (about nine hours from now) that he's going to keep fighting. Remember, in 2006 he and his supporters declared him the "legitimate president of Mexico" (admittedly, a claim which was much less frivolous then than it would be if made today).<br /><br />As for YoSoy - they're done, take out the thermometer. They'll head back to classes and get on with life in 2013. They may have had good intentions at the outset, but they flat out lied about who they were and what they really stood for, and they lost a lot of popular support as a result. They suffered, in a word, from political schizophrenia (read my article linked above, "Yo NO Soy's Summer of Discontent").<br /><br />I regret what happened to YoSoy, because EPN was most assuredly not MY cup of tea, and I'm an old protester myself, Class of 1970. But alas, I had to grow up and make a living, like all good leftists.Edward V. Byrnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15004474349762010489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-731271236101732120.post-28213811424185387652012-08-31T00:52:02.861-05:002012-08-31T00:52:02.861-05:00Hello, we are reading here that the demonstration ...Hello, we are reading here that the demonstration against the ruling turned nasty. Any video on that - or is this just hype to make #Yo Soy 132 look bad???<br /><br />3rd section down:<br /><br />AFN<br /><br />Validan eleccion ganada por Pena Nieto<br /><br />http://www.afntijuana.info/politica/12301_validan_eleccion_ganada_por_oena_nieto<br /><br />Thxs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com