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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | March 2007 
Mexico Fights Oil Privatization
 Prensa Latina
| | Former presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, speaks to supporters at the Benito Juarez monument, during the second annual Democratic National Convention in Mexico City, Wednesday, March 21, 2007. Lopez Obrador, who claims fraud in the last 2006 presidential elections, is calling on supporters to organize and plan ways to oppose the actions of the conservative government of Felipe Calderon. (AP/Eduardo Verdugo) |
Mexico - The 2nd Assembly of the National Democratic Convention (CND) will end on Sunday with a huge rally to denounce government attempts to privatize the oil industry.
Former candidate to the presidency in last July's elections Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is expected to close the CND meeting since he officially opened it last Wednesday in front of about four thousand supporters.
In his speech Lopez Obrador launched a harsh attack on the current Mexican president Felipe Calderon, whom he accused of using his post to pay invoices of those who backed him for the presidency in an electoral fraud.
The opposition leader also criticized the mass media for the treatment given to the movement and insisted his movement suffers a media blockade, showing the lack of democracy in the country.
He added that on Sunday he will present an initiative to rescue Mexican Oil State Enterprise and keep it from private hands, as the current administration hopes.
The CND is focused on main issues like the defense of the popular economy and energy resources, fighting corruption, the right to information and restoration of the Republic. |
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