Mexican leftists to disrupt Fox speech
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Mexican President Vicente Fox faces   a rough ride at his last state of the nation speech on Friday,   with leftist lawmakers planning to hijack the ceremony to   protest at what they say was election fraud.
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Mexico warned the United States not to interfere in its affairs on Thursday after criticism by Washington over lawlessness along the border.
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Congress was surrounded by police, soldiers and towering concrete and metal barriers Thursday in advance of President Vicente Fox's state-of-the-nation address, which is shaping up to be a major showdown with protesters demanding a recount of the July 2 election results.
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Facing noisy protests by leftist deputies, Mexican President Felipe Calderon has turned his back on Congress and booked a Mexico City concert hall to deliver his first state-of-the-nation speech.
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Leftist protesters targeted Mexican   President Vicente Fox at a major military parade on Saturday,   then rallied to plot their next move in a long battle to   overturn a July election they say was rigged.
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Venezuela readies for protests as a TV station opposing President Chavez is set to be taken off air at midnight.
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A government call for Mexicans to  show unity by singing the national anthem en masse met a tepid  response on Wednesday in another embarrassment for President  Vicente Fox.
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Mexico's departing President Vicente Fox has signed with an exclusive speakers agency that also represents former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Irish rock star Bono, according to the agency's Web site.
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A year after apologizing to the Mexican people for failing to meet his own expectations, President Vicente Fox will give an upbeat state-of-the-nation address focusing on his more popular moments, including a likely reference to Mexico's opposition of the Iraq war.
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Mexico City's leftist mayor led tens of thousands of demonstrators in a march Sunday to protest efforts to impeach him, an issue his supporters say threatens Mexico's political stability and pits "those on the bottom" against "those on top."
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President Vicente Fox said Tuesday that Mexicans do not support "extremist" and "messianic" politics, a thinly veiled slap at a leftist candidate who has launched street blockades to press for a full recount of last month's presidential election.
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Mexican President Vicente Fox said Monday he will appeal the legislature's 2005 budget with the Supreme Court, saying the lawmakers overstepped their powers and failed to develop a workable spending plan.
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico  - Public health and  education workers kicked and punched a sports utility vehicle  carrying Mexican President Vicente Fox on Friday, in Ciudad  Juarez on the U.S. border, witnesses said.
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Leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador called Sunday for hundreds of thousands of his supporters to erect permanent protest camps to cripple Mexico's capital until a disputed presidential election is decided.
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Chicago Tribune - After waiting patiently until after the U.S. presidential election, Mexican President Vicente Fox will be applying pressure anew on the Bush administration to adopt immigration reforms during a one-day binational meeting here Tuesday.
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Riot police, steel barriers, and water cannons surrounded Mexico's Congress as protesters vowed to stop President Vicente Fox from delivering his final state-of-the-nation address Friday, fueling fears the country's electoral crisis could turn violent.
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President Vicente Fox fired Mexico City's police chief Monday for allegedly bungling the response to a mob attack that killed two federal police officers. Fox's action sharply increases a political clash with leaders of the opposition-led capital ahead of the 2006 presidential race.