{"id":3214,"date":"2006-08-10T20:20:48","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T03:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3214"},"modified":"2006-08-10T21:52:51","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T04:52:51","slug":"mexican-protesters-sieze-toll-booths-blockade-stock-market-and-government-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3214","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Protesters Seize Toll Booths, Blockade Stock Market and Government Offices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Guest blogged by <a href=\"http:\/\/WinterPatriot.blogspot.com\">Winter Patriot<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mexican_protest.jpg\" width=200 hspace=8 vspace=4 align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.workers.org\/2006\/world\/mexico-0817\/\">Mexican sit-ins demand vote recount<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Throughout Mexico, the movement for social justice continues to take to the streets to press its demands.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of presidential candidate Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00e0\u00b3pez Obrador took over tollbooths throughout Mexico City on Aug. 8, preventing federal officials from charging tolls on the highways into the city, and blockaded the agricultural ministry, preventing employees from entering. (Reuters)<\/p>\n<p>The actions were in response to a court ruling that dismissed a full recount of ballots from the July 2 presidential election, in which what appears to be massive fraud led to the victory of the big-business candidate Felipe Calder\u00e0\u00b3n over L\u00e0\u00b3pez Obrador by a margin of less than one percentage point.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters have occupied the Paseo de la Reforma, Mexico City&#8217;s main thoroughfare, for nearly five miles since July 30. The 47 encampments have stalled traffic along a street containing government offices, the U.S. Embassy and luxury downtown hotels, with business in the area claiming losses of millions of dollars. They have also blocked the entrance to Mexico&#8217;s stock market.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.workers.org\/2006\/world\/mexico-0817\/\">Please read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Could something like <strong>this<\/strong> happen <strong>here<\/strong>? <\/p>\n<p><strong>Only if YOU want it badly enough!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest blogged by Winter Patriot Mexican sit-ins demand vote recount Throughout Mexico, the movement for social justice continues to take to the streets to press its demands. Supporters of presidential candidate Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00e0\u00b3pez Obrador took over tollbooths throughout Mexico City on Aug. 8, preventing federal officials from charging tolls on the highways into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mexico"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3214"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}