Thread: Research Needed: How many black elected officials in South A

Friends,

We need some volunteers to look into the following.

We would like to know how many black elected officials serve as President or in the Congress of Mexico and all other Central and South American nations?

Many of these nations once had black slave populations of similar proportion to the United States.

W

Now this is a really interesting question

And I bet the numbers are very very low

look at www.zonalatina.com -its not exactly what you are asking for but it may give you basis,etc of these caste systems that are still in place today that the media never speaks about.

This is a tough nut to crack

I can find elected bodies in several countries but there
is nothing by race , just names

You will have to google 'racial clasifications in latin america' and when you click on it that website shows up -

looking for a pic of the mexican congress and this came up

http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/v ... o=1&tt=910

Here are some enlightening articles.


http://www.mumia.org/wwwboard/messages/354.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/30/inter ... exico.html

http://www.afromexico.com/brief.htm

http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?f ... _id=122312

I googled to and found this from Dec..LOL the one line sounds just like Obama's People ... Yes we can and the other sounds like our country's People and our government
...I will keep looking Wiliam just thought this was interesting.

http://www.xispas.com/blog/2006/12/thie ... -door.html

On November 20th, the official anniversary of the 1910 Mexican Revolution, over 300-000 people held their own inauguration ceremony in Mexico City’s main square. The popular candidate of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, was sworn in as president by the masses as they chanted, "¡SÃ*, Se Puede!" (Yes, We Can!) Deafening roars of approval met Obrador’s remarks, "A government divorced from the people is nothing more than a facade, an egg shell, a bureaucratic apparatus, the legitimate government is the organized people" and "When there is no justice, there can be no peace." Obrador announced his support for the rebellion in Oaxaca and demanded the resignation of Ulises Ruiz.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Mexican

Some info here if you trust it

http://fistyouth.wordpress.com/2008/01/ ... -by-mumia/ This is very interesting. If it's true the upper class people didn't like him, I would like to know how they found fault with him.