Violence May Erupt at "La Frontera" on July 2

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La Voz de Aztlan

La Voz de Aztlan has received information from reliable sources that violence may erupt along the US/Mexico border on July 2 when the Mexican National Elections take place. There are approximately 8 million Mexicans in the United States eligible to vote in the Mexican elections. In northern Texas alone there are 400,000 Mexican voters who plan to travel to the border cities in Mexico to vote.

It is in the best interest of the PRI to keep Mexicans in the United States from voting because most will vote for a non-PRI candidate if given the chance. There was a movement afoot last year that would have allowed registered Mexican voters living abroad to cast their ballots in the United States, but it was stopped by the PRI dominated Mexican government. Mexico is the world's only industrialized country without such voting procedures.

The future of Mexico will be decided within 10 hours on July 2 because there is no absentee voting in Mexico. To cast a ballot, a voter must physically be in the country and possess a current voter registration card. The front of the card contains the voter's name, address, age, sex, picture and other information. On the back are the voter's signature and fingerprint. The election will be monitored by the Federal Electoral Institute. Final results are tabulated by computer and will be ready early the next day.

Voting booths will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. only. A voter must visit an official voting location, some of which have been set up in Mexican border cities for voters who reside in the United States and would not have enough time to return to their home state to vote.

Most of the Mexicans that will travel to the border towns and cities are expected to vote for Cuauhtemoc Cardenas of the Partido Revolucionario Democratico (PRD). Cuauhtemoc is Lazaro Cardenas' son and inheritor of his legacy. Lazaro Cardenas was the honest and popular President of Mexico from 1934 to 1940 who on March 18, 1938, expropriated the assets of seventeen foreign oil companies that had been doing business in the country. This legacy of Cuauhtemoc makes him an undesirable Mexican presidential candidate tor U.S interests in Mexico. These interests as well as the the PRI will be doing everything possible to stop voters from the U.S side to reach the ballot booths on the Mexican side. La Voz de Aztlan has information that on the days leading to the election, the US. Border Patrol as well as the Mexican Patrulla Fronteriza Preventiva will be escalating their harassment of Mexican migrants to deter them from crossing the border to vote.

The will of the Mexicans in the US to vote is great because they desire major political changes in Mexico. Many are economic refugees due to the corruption and ineffectiveness of the PRI to provide jobs at home. The Zedillo/Clinton resolve is great also in maintaining the economic status quo that benefit their corporate supporters. With the tensions at the border due to the recent shootings and murders by US vigilantes, the bomb scare in Nuevo Laredo, the drowning of two Mexican youths in the Rio Grande while both country's border police just watched and the thousands of voters that will be crossing the border, the situation will be a like a powder keg!