[lbo-talk] Video documentary on Mexico's legitimate president

[Julio Huato]

The link below is to a video documentary by Víctor Hernández from the
Sendero del Peje blog (http://senderodelpeje.blogspot.com/).  It shows
the gigantic groundswell of popular energy the movement in support of
López Obrador generated.  Among other things I found remarkable, the
celebration of Independence Day (September 16, 2006) in Mexico City
was full of symbolism.

Eugenia León's song by the middle of the documentary is incredibly
moving as it touches the most sensitive buttons in the national
sentiments of Mexicans.  If I caught the lyrics correctly, it links
the current situation to the U.S. invasion in the 1840s (by which the
U.S. chopped off and swallowed one half of Mexico), the French
invasion of Mexico in 1864, the imposition of Maximilian of Habsburg
as emperor of Mexico, and the relentless resistance by president
Benito Juárez, the first Indigenous president in Latin America.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8136401529506488350