Film on Mexicoâs Disputed â06 Election Stirs Emotions
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A documentary about last yearâs disputed presidential election has drawn big crowds and generated controversy in Mexico.
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There&#39;s a growing number of nonfiction films on current affairs, which usually means politics in this election year. They&#39;re diverse enough to prove Moore&#39;s brand of muckraking isn&#39;t the only way to bid for attention.
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Mexico's leftist presidential candidate said Thursday that he would never recognize the results of the election he said he lost by fraud, and Catholic bishops called for a week of prayer to heal the divisions widened by the bitter dispute.
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A tight governor's race Sunday in Mexico's poorest state has become the latest political battleground for the country's leftist party, which is disputing the results of last month's presidential election.
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Mexico at last will have a final decision Tuesday on its disputed July 2 presidential race, with the nation's top electoral court expected to declare ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon president-elect.
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Mexico's leftist presidential candidate said Thursday he has lost faith in Mexico's main electoral agency, and doesn't want them overseeing the national recount he is demanding.
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Anyone living in Canada who tuned into TVO last night saw an eye-opening documentary called El Contrato. The film, directed by Min Sook Lee, follows Teodoro Bello Martinez, a poverty-stricken father of four from Central Mexico, and several of his countrymen as they make their annual migration to southern Ontario to work for eight months of the year as migrant labourers picking tomatoes -- in return for wages and working conditions that no locals will accept. Despite their fear of almost certain repercussions, the workers voice their desire not just for better working conditions, but for the simple dignity and respect that all human beings deserve.     Growers hire foreign workers under the government's Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP), which is administered by the Foreign Agricultural Resource Management Services (F.A.R.M.S) in Ontario (and by F.E.R.M.E. in Quebec, New Brunswick and P.E.I.). Because the growers monitor themselves, and because there is a long line of jobless men "back home" willing and eager to take the place of those in the program, the workers are as ripe for exploitation as the fruit they pick.
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JALAPA, Mexico  - Mexico's main opposition party  fought to hold on to one of its oldest electoral bastions ahead  of 2006 presidential elections, in a close governor's race on  Sunday in Veracruz state.
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Walter Salles's stirring and warm-hearted film reconstructs a journey across South America taken by Ernesto Guevara before his career as a revolutionary.
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For director Emilio Estevez, his new   movie about the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968 is a   call to young people to shake off their cynicism and engage in   the political process.
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One film provides a positive message of unity. Another dramatizes the president's difficult days. A third offers sympathy to a nation wounded on Sept. 11, but includes foreign filmmakers' points of view.
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Ballots from Mexico's disputed presidential vote are to be burnt, despite a plea by President-elect Felipe Calderon.
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A political feud that has sharply   polarized Mexico's left and right soured the country's most   important national fiesta when two opposing leaders hosted   rival ceremonies ahead of independence day on Saturday.
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Once compared to the Soviet  Communist Party for its monolithic grip on power, Mexico's  Institutional Revolutionary Party is now in turmoil over how to  win back the presidency it lost in the 2000 elections.
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Felipe Calderon took power as Mexico's president on Friday but he faces a rough reception from leftist opponents who claim he stole July's election and plan to stop him from being sworn in later in the day.
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Films become more politicized as filmmakers seek to influence the upcoming election.
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For director Emilio Estevez, his new  movie about the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968 is a  call to young people to shake off their cynicism and engage in  the political process.