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Calderon Victory Advances Bush Agenda Lowell Ponte Mexico's national election commission on Thursday declared Felipe Calderon the tentative winner, by less than a quarter-million votes of 41 million cast, of the nation's presidential election. The seven judges of Mexico's Federal Electoral Tribunal have until September 6 to certify these results or order a new election. The most "conservative" of the three major candidates who were running, Calderon of outgoing President Vicente Fox's National Action Party (PAN) could make changes more revolutionary than either of his defeated left-wing opponents. As many expected, U.S. President George W. Bush maintained a strongly pro-Mexican public posture on issues of illegal immigration and free trade to boost Calderon's prospects in a close election. But Mr. Bush began, almost the moment Mexicans finished casting their ballots, to signal his willingness to move toward the U.S. House of Representatives bill that requires tougher enforcement on America's southern border. Clearly his attention has shifted from winning Mexico's election to keeping his own Republican House and Senate majorities from losing power this November. What now should we expect from Mexico's new president and our old one? (Belated Happy 60th Birthday wishes to President Bush, who celebrated this life milestone on Thursday.) President Bush, the former border-state governor of Texas, remains committed to his vision of one common market, a European Union-like integration that will virtually erase the borders between the U.S., Canada, Mexico and eventually the rest of Latin America. Calderon's victory advances this agenda in several ways.
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Calderon and President Fox had been ideologically attacked by regional Marxists Fidel Castro, dictator of Cuba, and Hugo Chavez, dictator of Venezuela (which is also Mexico's competitor in the world oil marketplace and in OPEC). Calderon ads had identified his chief leftist opponent, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, as the ideological ally of these Marxists – and Obrador, who during the campaign depicted himself as Mexico's New Dealer Franklin D. Roosevelt, has spent time in Cuba embracing Castro. In Mexico's election, voters rejected such radical class warfare by selecting Calderon. On that same Sunday, voters in Bolivia rejected Chavez-puppet Evo Morales' request for power to rewrite the national constitution along anti-capitalist, anti-private-property Marxist lines. (Morales is following Chavez's Venezuelan model by flooding his country with thousands of Cuban secret police, so a dictatorship is being locked into place in the land that killed Marxist terrorist Che Guevara that could soon foreclose future free elections in Bolivia.) Voters have also recently rejected Castro-Chavez-backed presidential candidates in Peru and Colombia. So Calderon's victory suggests that the latest leftward political surge in Latin America, nicknamed "the red tide," has crested and is now losing momentum.
As this column suggested, the most outspoken American opponents of illegal immigration might have preferred a Lopez Obrador victory in Mexico. Despite its many negative consequences, the presence of a Castro-Chavez-aligned regime in Mexico would have produced enormous political pressure to build a 40-foot-high fence on the border. Calderon's victory adds political weight to President Bush's policies to keep capitalist goods and labor (legal and illegal) flowing unimpeded across that border. Among these policies, which Mr. Bush has been implementing bureaucratically without congressional approval, are the planned North American SuperCorridor to speed trucks from Mexican ports into America's heartland as well as four other trade corridors to expedite shipping between Mexico and all regions of the continental United States. Felipe de Jesus Calderon Hinojosa, 43, is a technocrat and advocate of free trade. Born the son of one of PAN's founders, he became head of its youth auxiliary and later as head of the party. He also served as a local representative to Mexico's Legislative Assembly and twice in the Chamber of Deputies. After PAN's Vicente Fox won election as Mexico's first president since its revolution not of the corrupt socialist PRI party, Calderon was appointed director of the national development bank Banobras. Calderon was later accused of borrowing and repaying three million pesos from its accounts. Calderon also served for eight months as Energy Secretary in President Fox's cabinet. Both Fox and Calderon were involved with a sinister, anti-American institution – Harvard University. Calderon earned a master's degree in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Vicente Fox Quesada, the scion of a Spanish-Irish-Mexican family (like folksinger Joan Baez), was able to run for president only after Mexico's constitution was changed to make those with a non-Mexican-born parent eligible. (His mother is Spanish.) He attended seminars by Harvard's Business School. Fox launched his career with The Coca-Cola Company, working his way up from route supervisor and deliveryman to become supervisor of its operations in Mexico and then all of Latin America. The Left has spoken for decades of America's cultural imperialism as "Coca-colonialization." This is one of the chief reasons why leftists relentlessly, and on any pretext, try to drive Coca-Cola out of every actual or potential socialist area of conquest, from public schools to foreign countries. This soft drink symbolizes America and our ideals of individual choice, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The very name Coca-Cola is the world's second-most-understood word, after "OK." It comes from a global company that "wants to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony," as its most famous ad said. This is what English-speaking, America-loving Vicente Fox has embodied. Felipe Calderon shares these values, supports Israel, and is said to be "even more of a New World Order guy" than President Fox or the two presidents named Bush. (Rumors persist that the New York Times plans, in the "public interest," to publish the secret Coca-Cola formula reportedly stolen and offered for sale to competitor Pepsi-Cola by Coke employees. Does this planet-addicting beverage yet contains its namesake Coca leaves – albeit de-cocainized – as a flavoring ingredient? This gives the Times one more way to undermine America in the world, to expropriate and redistribute capitalist property, to practice its left-wing pseudo-journalistic "running of the bull.") Mexico probably will be better off with Felipe Calderon as president. The unanswered question remains: Will we?
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