This appears to be the case. Now that every election in the US that is lost by the candidate of the left was stolen in some arcane fashion that involves Democratic election committees willingly helping Republicans without so much as leaving any real evidence, we're exporting those attitudes south of the border.
"It's good that we have the institutions to channel the challenges," said Carlos Heredia, who became a leading adviser to candidate Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas after his loss in the contested 1988 presidential election. "What has me concerned is whether the institutions have the confidence of the citizenry -- that's the big question in the air."
Doggone it, it's the same issues we had up here. The rules are the rules. Just because you don't care for the outcome, you can't change the rules and rescore the game. If they really wanted anything except their guy to win, they'd be advocating changes to the laws to prevent any actual or perceived manipulation. Instead, I think we're going to get the dreaded paper mache puppets followed by violence.
Dozens of large posters, installed downtown by well-known artists who support a recount, have been torn apart, presumably by vandals who don't.
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Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the runner-up, has called for "peaceful civil resistance." And there are fears that López Obrador's mostly poor followers could resort to violence if their calls for a full recount fail.
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