AMLO arrest warrant issued

Apparently now a judge has to decide whether to accept the warrant. Bush buddy Vicente Fox and supporters are attempting to prevent Mexico City's popular (leftist) mayor (Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador: AMLO) from running for president in Mexico's 2006 election. For fear he will win, of course. Their method is to have him arrested for building a hospital access road on land whose ownership was in question. By Mexico's laws, a conviction would prevent him from participating in politics.

Even citizens who would not vote for Mayor Lopez Obrador are unhappy about the move, as they recognize it for what it is and are determined Mexico should have a democracy. It should be interesting, as a concerted organized drive is expected to protest the action and keep AMLO in the presidential running.

Either way, it looks like a very, very bad move on Fox's part. But, I guess desperate measures were deemed necessary. If you're going to lose anyway.

Maybe he should have asked for electronic voting machines instead.

While we're on the subject of Mexico...

The Minuteman Project, which attracted international attention by putting armed civilians along the Arizona-Mexico border to deter illegal immigration, announced Wednesday that it was entering a new phase and would stop its patrol activities.

The roughly 750 volunteers, organizers said, would remain in the border area through April under the direction of Civil Homeland Defense, a Tombstone, Ariz., group similar to the Minuteman Project.

The project will focus on protesting businesses that employ illegal immigrants, pushing for immigration reform and organizing Minuteman branches nationwide.

  Yahoo News article

Minutemen? Such patriots.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

And...

U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton in San Antonio, Texas, announced earlier this week that his office cut a plea bargain with Heriberto Santillan-Tabares, who U.S. prosecutors claim is a top lieutenant in Vicente Carrillo Fuentes’ Juárez drug organization.

Santillan had been charged with cocaine and marijuana smuggling along with five counts of murder. His case was slated to go to trial this May in federal district court in San Antonio.

The plea deal caps more than a year-long effort by federal prosecutors and ICE officials to keep a lid on the U.S. government’s complicity in multiple murders in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juárez.

  Narco News article