No one seems to be listening, and with the Israeli War going on, much like the Iraq War, the story of the mass protests in Mexico City seem to be getting no coverage in the American Press.  I believe a big reason for this, is that covering the unrest would create even more problems for Bush in trying to jam AMNESTY down the throats of Americans.  What worries me though, is the powder keg that these protests actually represent.

Almost 50 percent of Mexico's population lives at or below the poverty level, the nation being very much a two tiered society.  The Presidential Election literally split down the middle, the votes divided along CLASS LINES.  There seems, much like Bush's stolen presidency, that there is a tremendous amount of voting irregularities to be answer for, and Obrador, unlike Gore is NOT BACKING DOWN.

There are beginning to be cracks in Vincenti Fox's patience, and I believe it is only a matter of days before we see the use of FORCE to disperse the protestors, and when that happens, we could see Mexico slide into Civil War, and the US has taken NO STEPS to prepare for what would then amount to a FLOOD OF REFUGEES, that would need to be CONTAINED at the border.

Under fire, Mexico leftists vow more vote protests

Wed Aug 2, 2006 5:48pm ET

By Lorraine Orlandi

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's government slammed the main opposition leader on Wednesday for crippling Mexico City to protest alleged fraud in a tight presidential election, but his senior aides vowed to turn the screws even tighter.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is heading the protests to pressure Mexico's electoral court into ordering a full recount of votes in the July 2 presidential election he narrowly lost to the conservative ruling party's candidate, Felipe Calderon.

Thousands of leftists have seized the capital's vast Zocalo square and the main Reforma boulevard in support of Lopez Obrador, causing three straight days of traffic chaos and drawing fire from the government.

"Mexico City belongs to everyone. All those who live here deserve to have their rights respected," said Ruben Aguilar, spokesman for President Vicente Fox, in a rare outburst.

He said the leftists were hurting the economy, putting jobs at risk and violating residents' rights of free movement.

While the protests have been very peaceful, analysts say the tactic could backfire by angering residents and alienating some of Lopez Obrador's former supporters.

Calderon is trying to take advantage. "They are shooting themselves in the foot," a senior aide, Arturo Sarukhan, said of Lopez Obrador's Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD.

Lopez Obrador has apologized for the disruption caused by his followers setting up protest camps in the Zocalo, one of the world's biggest squares, and a six-mile (10-km) stretch of Reforma. But he insists it is a small price to pay and plans to extend the campaign of civil disobedience even further.   Continued...