Mexico City
Mexico’s supreme electoral court ruled this week that conservative Felipe Calderón won last July’s presidential election, but Calderón’s opponent, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and his supporters show no signs of accepting the result. Last week, Obrador backers forcibly blocked Mexican President Vicente Fox from delivering a major address to Mexico’s legislature, and Obrador has called for a “national democratic convention” later this month. The convention’s main agenda item will likely be a bid to set up a parallel government to Calderon’s.
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