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	How long can López Obrador keep up his fight? - By Eliza Barclay - Slate Magazine
		Eight days after Mexicans went to the polls, many breathed a sigh of relief that their candidate, Calderón, triumphed over the charismatic but divisive López Obrador, who castigated the excesses of the government and the elite and championed the poor.
		The charges were murky and evidence of López Obrador's direct involvement in the incident was scant; after Mexican intellectuals and foreign observers denounced the plot as undemocratic, Fox and PAN backed down and dropped the case.
		For many Mexicans, and longtime PRD supporters like Jesús Elias Mártinez, a retiree who also attended the rally, memories of robbed elections—a fixture of the many decades when the Institutional Revolutionary Party was in power—can kick-start suspicions.
	www.slate.com /id/2145414/fr/rss (1587 words)

	Geopolitical Diary: A Mexican Standoff Worsens
		Mexican federal police advanced into the center of Oaxaca City on Sunday, firing tear gas and water cannons at protesters who have been camping there for months.
		By late Sunday, police were advancing on a group in the central plaza who were slowing their advance by burning tires and trash and, occasionally, throwing rocks.
		The political action is intensifying at a key moment - for both talks aimed at ending the standoff and the upcoming presidential transition.
	banderasnews.com /0610/eded-standoffworsens.htm (588 words)

	Mexican standoff \| MetaFilter
		Long-time favorite center-leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador, of the Party of the Democratic Revolution, who had been running with an up to 10 percentage point lead earlier this spring, is down to a 2-3 percentage point lead in the last polls before the poll flout started on the 23rd of June.
		One of the rallying cries of the Mexican revolution, which ended the 35-year de facto dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, was "effective suffrage, not reelection", a reaction against the reelections of Díaz.
		López Obrador had secured only second place, Mexicans were treated, on national television, to a flash of anger that revealed the trademark intolerance that has made him such a polarizing figure: The red- faced candidate gripped the podium in frustration, pledging to exhaust every available legal channel.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/52692 (2098 words)

	New York's Premier Alternative Newspaper. Arts, Music, Food, Movies and Opinion
		The Bush proposal to offer amnesty to some three million Mexicans living illegally in the United States (some estimate it at seven million) is motivated, we are told, by Republican determination to win the Hispanic vote.
		The Mexican Hispanic population increased by 52.9 percent.
		The U.S. regards Mexico as little more than a permanent source of cheap labor—a means of ensuring that U.S. workers behave themselves lest they get replaced by people willing to work for $1 an hour or have their jobs transferred south of the border.
	www.nypress.com /14/32/taki/bunker.cfm (850 words)

	Mexican standoff
		Unfortunately, the FCC's database only showed one of the licenses when the FCC entered into an agreement, called a protocol, with the Secretaria de Communicaciones y Transportes of the United Mexican States to decide how this spectrum would be used within 120km of the border.
		When the protocol was announced, the FCC did grandfather the use of all licensed facilities using the channels on the U.S. side of the border.
		The Mexican government is getting heat from its licensees, who thought the channel would be clean near the border.
	mrtmag.com /mag/radio_mexican_standoff/index.html (1107 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Mexican Standoff by Allan Wall
		After all, the Mexican Congress was in that time merely functioned as a rubber-stamp for the president.
		The Mexican judiciary has a long way to go in achieving true judicial independence and shedding its corrupt reputation, but daylight savings ruling was a step in that direction.
		The Mexican foreign minister continued to criticize the U.S. Supreme Court decision and proposed a UN commission — headed up by Cuba - to investigate the treatment of illegal aliens in the United States.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=1835 (635 words)

	Mexican standoff. - By Noah Leavitt - Slate Magazine
		The Mexican high court's reasoning in 2001 sought to comply with Mexico's ban on cruel and unusual punishment—particularly in instances where the suspect could be extradited to a death-penalty-loving nation.
		Over the last few years, the Mexican government has filed a slew of lawsuits in U.S. courts and international tribunals challenging the American failure to comply with the VCCR with regard to Mexican nationals.
		In the case of Medellin, and 50 other Mexican nationals housed on America's death rows, the ICJ found that the United States had violated the Vienna Convention by failing to inform Mexico of its arrests of foreign citizens.
	www.slate.com /id/2132349 (2088 words)

	Mexican standoff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		White are in a Mexican standoff as Mr.
		In popular culture, the Mexican standoff is usually portrayed as two or more opponents with guns drawn and ready, creating a very tense situation.
		The Mexican standoff is now considered a movie cliché due to its frequent use in Spaghetti Westerns and B-movies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mexican_standoff (309 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Inboxer Rebellion (Mexican Standoff)
		The totalization plan now under discussion between the Bush administration and the Mexican government (both parties still describe the discussions as "informal and preliminary") would allow Mexican citizens who paid into the U.S. Social Security fund while legally employed in the USA to collect the benefits they accrued even if they return to their homeland.
		Security plan would no longer be penalized for having gone back to their country of citizenship, nor would they lose retirement benefits because, having split their working lives across two countries, they failed to meet the minimum requirements of either country's social security system.
		Mexican workers who once labored in the United States illegally and paid into the system using false Social Security numbers.
	www.snopes.com /inboxer/pending/mexican.asp (1450 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Texas border standoff with Mexican military
		Chief Deputy Mike Doyal of the Hudspeth County Sheriff's Department told the paper Mexican military Humvees were towing what appeared to be thousands of pounds of marijuana across the border into the United States.
		The Mexican soldiers set fire to one of the Humvees stuck in the river, Doyal indicated.
		Mexican officials last week denied their military was making incursions into the United States.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48485 (529 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Defusing the Mexican standoff
		Icaza's solutions are straightforward: a guest worker program for Mexicans, legal and illegal, who "travel abroad" — in his phrase.
		One of the most striking monuments in Mexico City is the Child Heroes, a grand alabaster shrine commemorating the deaths of military academy students when the U.S. Marines invaded the "halls of Montezuma." Resentments still exist over that and a dozen other abuses — both real and perceived.
		In recent years, Mexican leaders have been trying to create more give and take, though the people themselves have tended to balk.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,635165809,00.html (408 words)

	eG Features - Mexican Standoff
		Students claimed that although tuition was inexpensive, the cost of a post-secondary education in terms of books, transportation, or lost employment opportunities was prohibitive to the average Mexican, half of whom live beneath the poverty line.
		According to Article 3 of the Mexican constitution, all state education should be free.
		This event, coupled with the Mexican national presidential election slated for July 2000, raised hopes for a swift and effective resolution.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~gauntlet/eg/features/stories/20000309/index.html (1832 words)

	Mexican Standoff - Public Eye
		So close, in fact, that in the aftermath many in the media suggested that a replay of the 2000 US presidential election was in the making.
		But Mexicans don't much trust their media, with many believing that many media outlets are in the pocket of the ruling party.
		Grech told Garfield that every single political commentator he spoke to said not announcing the results was a political decision that "reflects a lack of courage on the part of the local media down here." The commentators lamented the fact that media outlets published "only the government's polls rather than their independent poll data."
	www.cbsnews.com /blogs/2006/07/10/publiceye/entry1787472.shtml (601 words)

	Dean's World - Mexican Election Standoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I think the Mexican system shows the limitations of the whole idea of term limits.
		But anyway, either way, it's the business of the Mexicans, who are a proud and beautiful country of their own, whatever their flaws (just as we have our flaws).
		I agree Dean that the Mexican idea of limiting the president to one term is term limits gone haywire.
	www.deanesmay.com /posts/1152259580.shtml (651 words)

	Jim Geraghty on Mexico & Immigration on National Review Online
		House panel is beginning to take a hard look at the newest wrinkle in the immigration debate — identity cards distributed by Mexican consulates in the United States to illegal immigrants.
		A little more than a year ago, Mexican consulates began widespread distribution of "matricula consulars" — identification cards issued by the Mexican government to illegal immigrants in the United States.
		According to Immigration Matters, a group calling for stricter enforcement of enforcement laws, about one million matriculas were distributed by Mexican consulates last year, and the card is now accepted as a form of identification by 402 localities, 32 counties, 122 financial institutions, and 908 law-enforcement offices.
	www.nationalreview.com /geraghty/geraghty062003.asp (825 words)

	FOXNews.com - Men in Mexican Army Uniforms in Border Standoff, Official Says - U.S. & World
		SIERRA BLANCA, Texas — Men in Mexican military-style uniforms crossed the Rio Grande into the United States on a marijuana-smuggling foray, leading to an armed confrontation with Texas law officers, authorities said Tuesday.
		The men retreated and escaped back across the border with much of the pot, though they abandoned more than a half-ton of marijuana as they fled and set fire to one of their vehicles, authorities said.
		The Mexican government denied its military was involved.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,182650,00.html (717 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Mexican standoff
		That's how I'm feeling today after reading the reports of outgunned, outmanned Texas law enforcement officers and Border Patrol agents being involved in an armed standoff with Mexican military personnel and drug smugglers inside our country, north of the Rio Grande.
		The Mexican military vehicles, with mounted machine guns, were, according to the American law enforcement officers, towing thousands of pounds of marijuana into our country.
		I don't blame ordinary Mexicans for trying to flee the dreadful conditions with which their leaders have enslaved them.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48510 (752 words)

	Mexican Standoff
		The Mexican government's contention that the U.S. is dumping pork into their country is politically motivated and without merit, says Dave Roper, president of the National Pork Producers Council and a producer from Kimberly, ID.
		Mexican pork producers, who have benefited significantly since NAFTA was signed in 1994, are not satisfied with the current treaty and are currently disrupting Mexican commerce with protests and other measures aimed at further restrictions on American agriculture.”
		Roper says Mexican hog operations are highly profitable and do not need protection from imported pork.
	nationalhogfarmer.com /mag/farming_mexican_standoff/index.html (256 words)

	Mexican Standoff [Fool.com: Commentary] August 26, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In what has to be one of the all-time great moments in chutzpah, wealthy Mexican tycoon Ricardo Salinas has nearly finished delisting the U.S. shares of the three Mexican companies he controls.
		In all three cases, he claims that the companies are delisting because the costs of listing in the U.S. aren't worth it and that the Mexican markets are now sufficiently liquid to serve the companies' needs.
		Somehow he forgot to mention that the SEC was looking to prevent Salinas' ongoing participation in the companies and that the choice basically came down to delisting or Salinas quitting.
	www.fool.com /news/commentary/2005/commentary05082606.htm (1054 words)

	This Is Texas Music \| Michelle Shocked, Mexican Standoff review
		Mexican Standoff pays tribute to Mexican and African-American musical traditions.
		Shocked affects a Mexican accent for some near-parodic border music on "Lonely Planet" and "La Cantina el Gato Negro." "Picoesque" celebrates the melding of cultures through the example of Santa Monica's famed Pico Boulevard.
		In reality, though, nothing on Mexican Standoff proves particularly noteworthy.
	www.thisistexasmusic.com /reviews/mexicanstandoff.html (97 words)

	BW Online \| September 10, 2001 \| Bush's Mexican Standoff
		When President Bush sat down with Mexican President Vicente Fox on Sept. 5, he told his good buddy that he wants to move toward liberalization of American immigration policy as quickly as possible, according to an account relayed by a Mexican business leader.
		Fox's role is the Mexican version of the one Ross Perot tried to play a few years ago.
		By providing Mexicans living in the U.S. with legal protection, and by pushing for a new program to allow other Mexicans to work in the U.S. on a temporary basis, Bush could boost the local economies on both sides of the border.
	www.businessweek.com /bwdaily/dnflash/sep2001/nf20010910_538.htm (976 words)

	USNews.com: Mortimer B. Zuckerman: End the Mexican standoff
		It matters very much that Mexican democracy not be hijacked by demagogic ambition, and that is the threat now posed by the conduct of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the leader of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).
		López Obrador is behaving less like a democrat than like the Mexican caudillos, the strongmen from one party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), who ruled Mexico for 71 years.
		On that day, the votes of almost 42 million Mexicans were monitored by 25,000 national observers and more than 600 international observers.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/opinion/articles/060910/18edit.htm (592 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! Movies - The Mexican Review - Mexican standoff
		The Mexican is no Notting Hill, Runaway Bride or even that subversive Roberts' comedy My Best Friend's Wedding.
		The Mexican is a comedy caper movie that has shades of Sam Peckinpah's Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia.
		The Mexican is a fun movie but it's often irresponsible fun.
	jam.canoe.ca /Movies/Reviews/M/The_Mexican/2001/03/02/753728.html (646 words)

	Mexican standoff at ruling on poll \| The World \| The Australian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		US President George W.Bush's administration is evidently relieved the Mexican presidency will remain in conservative hands, after a series of electoral victories by leftist leaders in Latin America over the past several years.
		The ruling by the seven tribunal judges confirmed the presidential election was the closest in Mexico's history, with Mr Calderon winning by a margin of 0.56 per cent.
		Mr Calderon must win over millions of Mexicans angry that Mr Fox didn't make good on promises of sweeping change - and fend off thousands of radicalised leftists who say they will stop at nothing to undermine his presidency.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,20367464-2703,00.html (419 words)

	Mexican standoff
		Mexican standoff Posted: January 26, 2006 1:00 a.m.
		Mexicans are invading our country daily and Bush does everything but openly invite them.
		He's acting like the Mexican Army invaded and hauled off all of the women and children of small Texas city and we did nothing.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1565733/posts (2950 words)

	Mexican Standoff? - FreeConservatives
		Castaneda had been the Mexican foreign minister in the current Vicente Fox administration.
		That the current and past administrations have ignored the problem means nothing, espcecially when the American public is fed up with paying for illegals.
		The mexican government may wake to to find the American military manning the border then we'll see if the mexican government can do anything about the border.
	freeconservatives.com /vb/showthread.php?t=25210 (558 words)

	Texas border standoff with Mexican military - Sean Hannity Discussion
		A Mexican government agency is to issue some 70,000 maps marking main roads and water tanks for people wanting to cross illegally into the US.
		Each year thousands of Mexicans breach the frontier and attempt to cross the parched Sonoran Desert.
		Last year the Mexican government issued comic-book style pamphlets warning of the dangers of illegal migration, while also giving advice on how to stay safe.
	www.hannity.com /forum/showthread.php?t=51459 (1229 words)

	Border Patrol In Armed Standoff With Mexican Military : Diggers Realm
		There was an armed standoff between the US Border Patrol and what appeared to be Mexican military personnel.
		The standoff ended when the "soldiers" used a bulldozer to pull the dump truck into Mexico, sheriff's officials said.
		Doyal said the bulldozer is kept in the area and is suspected of being used to create makeshift paths across the river.
	www.diggersrealm.com /mt/archives/001387.html (976 words)

	Mexican Standoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The 11-30 million Mexican illegal criminals will be responsible for violent retaliation upon all Hispanics.
		This consular protection guide is not promoting the crossing [of the border] of Mexicans without legal documentation required by the government of the United States; its objective is to make known the risks implied and to inform about the rights of migrants regardless of their legal residence.
		Mexican and Muslim and other illegals are criminals - they come from corrupt criminal cultures and backgrounds - they want to and will continue to break the laws of the USA
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-bloggers/1623764/posts (3652 words)

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