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During a May 16 campaign rally in Guamuchil, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the socialist candidate for the presidency of Mexico, denounced incumbent Vicente Fox for acting as a "puppet, a plaything of foreign governments." In the same populist vein, Obrador lamented the Mexican government's use of illegal immigration as a way of exporting its unemployed population to the United States.
"It is not the solution," declared Obrador. "It is not an alternative but it is a disgrace for us Mexicans because of the irresponsible rulers of this country."
As a socialist, Obrador predictably coupled that sound diagnosis with a disastrous prescription, insisting that it was the responsibility of the U.S. federal government to provide Mexico with economic aid. "The relation we should have between nations and governments is a relation marked by ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Redistribution of wealth--or of workers.(Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador...