“The cathedral is state property, but as a religious association we have the right to determine what religious rites are held there,” he said. “And because the site was profaned, we can declare the suspension of the rites.”
Apr 292006
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MEXICO CITY — Do a Google search on “AMLO,” the initials by which the populist front-runner for the presidency is known, and you’ll get a prompt: “Did you mean: malo?” Spanish for “bad.” Whether Andrés Manuel López Obrador — whose initials are as widely recognized here as JFK and LBJ in the U.S. — would be good or bad for Mexico is anyone’s guess. López Obrador resigned as mayor as of today to run for president in 2006 — a move sure to kick this country’s continued experiment with democracy into high gear. A member of the leftist Democratic Revolutionary ….Read More
