Here are some pictures I took today at the mega march on Sunday in defense of oil:



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Zany means: THE PEOPLE NO FOOL!
PRD mobilization spot radio
They call for "urgent" to join the civil resistance Sunday at 10:00 am at the Angel of Independence
The PRD has launched a new radio spot in which convenes a mobilization on Sunday April 27th against the privatization of Pemex.
The message called The oil is ours, we hear the voice of Andrés Manuel López Obrador at a rally where he called on his followers to continue the fight to keep Pemex be privatized.
Unlike the spot aired on April 10, which was signed by the Broad Progressive Front (FAP), this message only mentions the PRD.
On that occasion the Tabasco also made a call, but "urgent" and "peaceful civil resistance is our only way."
The call for this Sunday is at 10:00 hours to leave the Angel of Independence to the Zocalo.
Mexico will record slower growth in AL in 2008: ECLAC
countries of the region will grow in 2008 on average 4.7 percent, while our country encrypt 2.7 percent. AFP
Santiago. Latin America will grow in 2008, one point less than last year, to achieve an expansion of 4.7 percent against a backdrop of slower growth for the entry into recession in the U.S. economy, which hit hardest in Mexico, ECLAC estimated Tuesday .
countries of the region will grow in 2008 on average 4.7 percent, which means a downward adjustment compared to an estimate made last December by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which is based in Santiago.
"Latin America will grow in 2008 by 4.7 percent, partly due to drag" of the previous year's growth, said executive secretary of ECLAC, José Luis Machinea. In 2007, Latin American economies grew 5.7 percent, successfully dodging the global financial volatility.
Now, however, Latin America will suffer from the effects of the entry into recession in the U.S. economy, which in turn will cause a slowdown in European economies and a slight reduction in growth in China, said Machinea.
"There will be an impact on the region," The Economist.
The most affected will be Mexico, whose economy will expand just 2.7 percent from 3.3 percent reached in 2007 to become the country with the lowest yield in the region.
Panama, with a GDP growth of 8 percent, instead lead regional growth, followed by Peru and Argentina, which recorded a growth of 7 percent, Uruguay, with 6.5 percent and Colombia and Venezuela 6 percent.
mediocrity is located in Bolivia and Paraguay, with 5 per cent, followed by Brazil with 4.8 percent and Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, will expand 4.5 percent.
Lowest growth recorded El Salvador (4 percent), Haiti and Nicaragua (3.5 percent) and Ecuador (3 percent).
The Mexican economy is affected because the main defendant in his lower especially important expansion of its manufacturing exports to the United States, representing more than 73 percent of their shipments, said Machinea.
This factor will also affect other economies in the region, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica and Guatemala, all of which are among its exports a high percentage of manufacturing.
The economic crisis will also impact on remittances to nations in the region, might be reduced in 2008 to a value estimated yet, mainly affecting the Central American countries, where the reception of dollars from abroad represents a significant percentage of its GDP.
poorest countries in the region will be affected also by higher food prices, which should register a decrease between now and year's end, according to ECLAC, which previously held that the rise in food prices will poverty to 10 million Latin Americans.
This time, however, "the impact on the countries of the region will be lower than in the past for its less vulnerable" stressed the head of ECLAC. For 2009 "is difficult for the region to grow by about 4 percent, if the global economy is slowing," said Machinea.
The economist was also a call for countries in the region carry restrictions on capital inflows and intervene the foreign exchange market, should take anti-inflationary policy to increasing interest rates.
"Raise interest rates without intervention in the foreign exchange market and the uncontrolled influx of capital will generate more appreciation," said Machinea.
Calderón is one that has sown hatred and resentment in the country: EPR
The government insists the criminalization of social protest, warns a statement.
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Posted: 22/04/2008 15:16
Mexico City. The Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) pointed out to President Felipe Calderón as "the leading man who has been sowing hatred and discord" in the country, and that due to their lack of ability and reasoning, "rather than solve existing problems, the more acute."
Through a statement released the same day, the EPR question as expressed last week by President Felipe Calderón to the effect that "when hatred and sowing division and discord is reflected outrage."
The text also mentioned the current situation arising from the energy reform bill proposed by the federal executive: "We agree absolutely that Petroleos Mexicanos Mexicans, because being really protect him and would give our life for him and if anyone wants to take us with euphemisms such as the modernization or have no technical or economic capacity to exploit it will have the proper rejection and resistance
Although, at this attempt, the people have responded through the actions of peaceful resistance, the government has insisted on criminalizing social protest. Therefore, he adds, "as people have the legitimate right of self defense, and everyone in his trench must continue exposing corruption and the overlap that makes the State of the dregs of society, including corruption in the sport that complaint Ana Gabriela Guevara, pedophilia that unmasks Lydia Cacho and San Juana Martinez and Senators who have discovered the impunity of the Fox family, especially the Bribiesca brothers. "
note to legislators of the PRI, Emilio Gamboa Patron, Manlio Fabio Beltrones, Francisco Labastida and Diodoro Carrasco, and PAN, Santiago Creel and Hector Larios," as a club of criminals who have attempted by all means sell the sovereignty of our country and they did hijack the country. "
also announced that it will continue its campaign of harassment" under our times and means "to demand the release of his two companions Edmundo Reyes Amaya and Gabriel Alberto Cruz Sanchez, allegedly detained for 11 months by the Mexican Army and transfer to another prison José Luis Duran Mata and Sergio Bautista Martinez, held in the Altiplano.
also belies any communication with the "illegitimate government" of Felipe Calderon as he was released by a national newspaper, which warned that Guillermo Valdez, director of the Center for Investigation and National Security (CISEN) ensured have some "contacts" with members of the EPR to prevent further attacks.
That is a vicious lie, he insists, as well as the accusation that we are dedicated to plagiarism and other acts to get cheap funds because from our congress in 2000 we have relied on our people in their efforts and creativity to the tasks of the revolution. Zany
reform will almost certainly not happen in this period: AMLO
We can not trust us and we insist on this demand that has a national debate, plural and democratic on the domestic energy sector, he said.
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Mexico City. "There will be no early bird! Is almost certain that in the current session, which ends next April 30, the initiative may not be approved submissive" in oil, Andrés Manuel López Obrador said.
However, he added, we can not trust us and we insist on the main demand of a national debate, plural, democratic on the domestic energy sector. What we ask, he said, is rational, peaceful and possible, especially on the understanding that oil belongs to all Mexicans and as such we are all entitled to your opinion.
The informational meeting held at noon Sunday at the plate the Zocalo, the "legitimate president" announced that as part of the actions of peaceful civil resistance, next Sunday information meetings will be held in the main squares in the country, which will be coordinated by the brigades of the National Movement in Defense of Oil.
also drew stay tuned for what happens next Tuesday in the Senate as that's where some decisions could result in the mobilization of the brigades.
He also said that tackling the fence most of the media, the brigade will carry a primer to disclose - "until the last corner of the country "- the reasons behind the movement against the reform bill filed just last Wednesday by President Felipe Calderón, which attempts to privatize Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex).
Tabasco
politician also joined in the defense of legislators who make up the Broad Progressive Front, who last Thursday began the actions of peaceful civil resistance in both houses of Congress.
In the media, he said, claim that our legislators hijacked the Congress. Does a senator should be allowed to idly violation of the Constitution, he asked.
not stop us all these hate campaigns and political lynching. Nothing and no one will make us accomplices of such intention national robbery. It may be that legislators have the final word, but first the people have. While there is no response to our request for debate on oil and what it implies in terms of sovereignty, history, law, development, welfare and social peace, we will continue with peaceful civil resistance, he said.
The informational meeting began an hour later than originally scheduled so as not to interfere in the funeral of Cardinal Ernesto Corripio Ahumada which were held in the Metropolitan Cathedral.
agreed that once the bells chiming religious precinct attendees socket should remain silent, while the local sound should be discontinued.
Jesusa Rodriguez, who heads one of 20 brigades in the defense of oil ", said the idea that the meeting takes place at noon is also to" wait "for the rest of the troops reached the capital's main square.
rally as speakers took the PRD senators Carlos Navarrete Ruiz, Guadalupe Castellón Fonseca, Silvano Aureoles Rabbit and José Guadarrama Márquez, and Dante Delgado Ranauro, Convergence.
They came in caravans from the big house Xicoténcatl the first frame of the city. Zany