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Madrazo blew it on this one

Submitted April 30, 2005 - 9:55 am by Jules Siegel
I am well-known (and universally despised) for my view that the PRI was nothing as bad as it was portrayed. I felt that Zedillo made a big mistake pushing Labastida over Madrazo, but when Madrazo enforced party discipline on the desafuero he lost all credibility in my eyes. He should have freed his people to vote their conscience.

As I said in my diary on the nuclear option, if López Obrador runs and wins big, the remmnants of the PRI will probably be absorbed into the PRD, and we will be back where we started in 1987 when Cardenas and his followers were ejected -- only now the rightful heirs of the PRI and the Mexican revolution will be running the show.

I don't know. Don't hold your breath would seem to be the best advice right now.

Meanwhile, let's not forget what the Mexican revolution accomplished against all odds.

I am really annoyed about the arrest of Cancun environmentalist Araceli Dominguez on absurd defamation charges, so I will have to slow down and breathe. This could never have happened under Zedillo. This is what Fox gave Cancun -- the business. Are you reading this, Al? Fox has been an environmental disaster for Cancun. Is López Obrador going to be any better?

I will get back to this later. Meanwhile, see:

Mexican Environmentalist in jail for defending dolphins

By Yolanda Alaniz

[Press release]

Al-Jazeerah, April 25, 2005

We need your support!!!

Mexican Environmentalist in jail for defending illegally imported Solomon Islands dolphins

The Mexican environmentalist-lady Araceli Dominguez was imprisoned on Saturday 23rd of April for defending the freedom of the Solomon Island dolphins.

In response to a query this morning, I received the following reply from ecoTerra:

Mexican Dolphin Defender Released

[Excerpts]

Cancun / Mexico - 28.04.2004 (WTN) The Mexican environmentalist Araceli Dominguez, head of Grupo Ecologista del Mayab (GEMA), based in Cancun, Mexico, who was falsely imprisoned on 23. April 2005, was released from prison in the early morning hours, just after  a representative of the PRI [text in bold added by JS] Governor of the State of Quintana Roo had gone around midnight personally to the prison to facilitate the unconditional release of Araceli Dominguez.

The owner of the dolphinaria "Atlantida" and Park Nizuc "Wet 'n' Wild", Mr Bernardo Zambrano was forced to drop all criminal charges against the accused: Araceli Dominguez, Sara Rincon, head of the Association to Protect Animals of Cancun, Cecilia Navarro from Greenpeace Mexico, Ben White from Animal Welfare Institute, five local reporters and Yolanda Alaniz from Comarino.

But the fight for the release of the hijacked and illegally imported dolphins from the Solomon Islands and against their criminal abductors and prison warders continues.

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