2003: U.S. government purchase data on Mexico’s 65 million registered Voters
05/01/03: (Guadalajara Reporter) A probe has been launched into how the Atlanta-based corporation ChoicePoint Inc. was able to purchase data on Mexico’s 65 million registered voters as well as six million licensed drivers in Mexico City.
According to an investigation carried out by the Mexico City newspaper Milenio, ChoicePoint was commissioned by the U.S. government to obtain the data.
Mexican legislators want President Vicente Fox to ask his U.S. counterpart for what reason the U.S. government needs this confidential information.
ChoicePoint is the only data-gathering company that specializes in acquiring information on foreign nationals in general and Latinos in particular.
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Calder„n Says He Would Accept Partial Recount
MEXICO CITY, July 11 — Felipe Calderon, a free-trade booster who was declared the winner of Mexico’s disputed presidential election last week, said Tuesday that he would accept a partial recount but that a complete recount would be “absurd” and illegal.
Calder„n’s main opponent, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the Democratic Revolutionary Party, has alleged widespread election fraud, called massive street protests and asked Mexico’s special electoral court to order a recount of votes cast in all 130,000 polling stations. In his first international media interview since being declared winner, Calderon said Tuesday that he would abide by the decision of the court, even if it orders a recount of as many as 50,000 polling places.
“I will respect what the tribunal says,” said Calderon, of the National Action Party.
During the wide-ranging interview at his Mexico City campaign headquarters, Calderon also took exception to remarks made Monday by President Bush’s spokesman, Tony Snow, about Calderon’s opposition to building more walls on the U.S.-Mexico border. Snow told reporters that the “last time I checked, Calderon did not have any official authority over the activities of the United States government.”
In the interview, Calderon said, “President Bush’s spokesman is someone who does not have the authority to tell me what I should be saying.”
Mexico Splits in Half: the Election Hits the Streets
A full week after the most viciously contested presidential election in its modern history, a Florida-sized fraud looms over the Mexican landscape and the nation has been divided almost exactly in half along political, economic, geographical and racial lines.
Mexico has always been two lands “Illusionary Mexico” and “Profound Mexico” is how sociologist Guillermo Bonfils described the great divide between rich and poor. But now, should it be allowed to stand, right-winger Felipe Calderon’s severely questioned 243.000 vote victory over left-wing populist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) will split the country exactly in half between the industrial north and the impoverished, highly indigenous south with each winning 16 states although the southern states won by Lopez Obrador, who also won Mexico City by a million votes, constitute 54% of the population.