"Those who attend these meetings should be honest and if they are with López Obrador, they can't be with the EZLN." In sum: He never said it. (In our own account of Saturday - titled Report: Marcos Appears in Public, Criticizes López Obrador we made a point of stating that the quotation was "according to EFE (so far unverified by other sources)."
Translated from tonight's report, below and in Spanish, by Luis Gomez in La Paz and El Alto, Bolivia In a televised message, Bolivian President Carlos Mesa attacked social leaders Evo Morales and Abel Mamani (from the city of El Alto) for trying to use him.
This hemisphere’s political class received a strong message this month: make a promise to break from old – to turn your country in a new direction, to govern for the people instead of the corrupt elite – and you’d better keep it.
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