Thread: Mexico protesters pull down new statue of ex-president Vicen

Mexico protesters pull down new statue of ex-president Vicente Fox
3 hours ago

BOCA DEL RIO, Mexico - Opposition protesters egged and then tore down a bronze statue of former Mexican President Vicente Fox down today, just hours after it was erected.

Workers put up the commemorative statue before dawn in the city of Boca del Rio, in Veracruz state.

But by 9 a-m some 100 angry protesters, many of them members of the Institutional Revolutionary party, or P-R-I, surrounded the figure.

Fox, of the conservative National Action party, ended 71 years of P-R-I rule with his historic election in July 2000.

The crowd launched eggs at the statue, fastened a rope around its neck and pulled it to the ground, breaking off the right hand and damaging the base.

Boca del Rio Mayor Francisco Gutierrez de Velasco, a member of Fox's party, condemned the acts but said municipal police did not intervene because the statue is the state's property.

An inauguration ceremony scheduled for Sunday has been cancelled until further notice.

http://canadianpress.google.com/article ... n1jALD1NAQ

LOL...DONT THINK THEY LIKE FOX

Makes ya wonder what will happen to his presidential library!

Well it looks like poor old Fox will have problems setting up his library eh. He won't be alone though, Presidente Jorge will have the same problem .

Maybe both can built their little library in some desert in Mexico. Visitors can then jump a fence to enter the vincinity and enter illegally.

Is Vicente going to overstay his visa as he stumps his book tour in order to avoid the wrath of his muchachos?

THAT JUST MADE MY DAY!!!

This story made me think-
If the people can have the courage and confidence to destroy a newly erected statue of a president in Mexico then that just proves to me they ARE capable of fighting to build their country into a first world nation.

Rawhide!

It must have taken a lot of anger and courage to do it.

That sends a powerful message.

The Mexican's want a different direction for their country. Let's hope it continues.