Mexico
Right-wing election fraud

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Matt Waine

The "outcome" of the Presidential election on 2 July has plunged Mexico into instability as populist candidate Lopez Obrador, who led throughout the campaign, lost the election to conservative candidate Calderon.

The waffer-thin margin for Calderon of 0.6% and the disappearance of up to three million votes has led many to believe that the capitalist establishment have once again rigged the result to ensure their prefered candidate won.

The government of outgoing president Vincente Fox has implemented serious attacks on the Mexican working class. These attacks and the mass opposition of miners, teachers and metal workers to them has fueled support for Obrador who is seen as standing in opposition to these attacks.

If elected, Obrador has promised to renegotiate aspects of the NAFTA agreement. While he has called on his supporters to take to the streets in mass demonstrations, hundreds of trade unions and community groups representing over ten million people have called a general strike across the country on 28 July.

This could be the beginning of the Mexican working class taking the same road as the masses in Venezuela and Bolivia have taken towards a serious attack on capitalism.