Thousands of supporters of Andres Manual Lopez Obrador again filled Mexico City's central plaza, the zocalo, Nov. 20 to witness his swearing in as Mexico's parallel "legitimate president," with a cabinet of 12 mostly drawn from his former administration as the capital's mayor. (AP [2], Nov. 20) "It is an honor to be the legitimate president of Mexico and above all the leader of free men and women like you," López Obrador told the crowd after leftist senator and human-rights activist Rosario Ibarra de Piedra placed a red-white-and-green "presidential sash" over his shoulder. (LAT [3], Nov. 21)
"Those neo-fascist reactionaries better not think they'll have room to manoeuvre," he told his supporters Nov. 18. "We're going to keep them on a short leash." (BBC [4], Nov. 20)
See our last posts on Mexico [5] and the electoral crisis [6].
