One story that has not been covered a whole lot within the western media is the political problems in Mexico. Right now there is a huge populist movement rallying behind presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and his campaign for a recount of the recent election that was won by conservative Felipe Calderon. The problem is that there have been allegation's of statewide vote rigging, and these claims have been given validity with recent re-counts.

This is a major story, with the real possibility that Mexico could follow Venezuela, Cuba and Bolivia down a left wing path. One country that this would not sit right with would be the USA.


The first reason is oil related. Mexico's main oil field is about ready to crater, this field is one of the largest in the world and having it fall into left wing, socialist hands would cause more instability in the worlds oil markets. Mexico is also joined to the USA economically and militarily through NAFTA and other treaties signed between the two countries.

These are more than enough reasons for the USA not to want Mexico to end up following the example of Hugo Chavez and more than enough justification to help the conservative candidate to power by means legal or not, after all these are the same people that have undermined the American election process through actions that removed black voters, mainly Democratic supporters, from voting lists in 2000 and 2004.