Giordano: NNTV: Al Gore's Mexican Adventure

Giordano: NNTV: Al Gore's Mexican Adventure

August 16, 2010
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Dear Colleague,

Today we make available the first in a series of video reports from Narco News TV. The video, titled “Al Gore's Mexican Adventure” and produced by 2010 School of Authentic Journalism graduate Sebastian Kolendo, examines Mexico's upcoming presidential elections in 2012 and how Washington is already beginning to meddle in the race.

Al Giordano reports:

“The 2012 presidential campaign is already underway... in Mexico. And, as in previous Mexican elections, US interests are all over it like a cheap suit.

“...Now comes Sebastian Kolendo, of Narco News TV (you’ll be seeing and hearing more from the nascent NNTV project very soon) with a video report underscoring the key points of the story. In just two minutes, Kolendo – who reported the story with León and Rosa – offers viewers a crash course of the surrealistic relationship between US and Mexican politicians, and introduces the guy that key gringo economic and political powers have already designated as Mexico’s next president, the violent repressor Enrique Peña Nieto, governor of Mexico state, the most populous in the country.

“...Foreign policy deciders in the Obama administration should think again whether Peña Nieto - the man who in 2006 in the town of Atenco brought back the violent tactics of the dirty wars of the sixties and seventies against Mexican social movements – is really what the twenty-first century needs in the nation next door. A new wave of government repression would only serve to motivate millions more to cross the border in order to escape the return of brutal authoritarianism in Mexico.”

Read the complete article online at Narco News:

http://www.narconews.com

>From somewhere in a country called América,

Erin Rosa
Staff Reporter

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