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Obrador Begins Zocalo Speech

After asking for "a moment of silence" for the late Pope John Paul II, Mexico City Governor Andrés Manuel López Obrador began his speech before a Zocalo absolutely packed wall to wall with supporters:

"Friends: They are on the verge of committing an attack on the democracy for which so many Mexicans have suffered, a return to the authoritarian epoch when Los Pinos (the Mexican presidential palace) ruled against the will of the people...

"The PRI and the PAN will comply with orders from Los Pinos and with the complicity of Carlos Salinas de Gortari when those who claim to be 'popular representatives' will remove me, illegitimately, from the post that you elected me to...."

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