Show Mexico Holds an Election A MID DEATH DEATH DEALING DEALING BULLETS bloody rioting and wholesale charges of fraud and denial of the right to vote Mexico has held a presidential election Perhaps election ought to be in quotes be because ause it can be called that only by courtesy No accurate reports on the foil Poll of dead and wounded in the election battles is available but it appears probable nearly were slain and thousands were wounded by bullets or knives or injured in rioting Actually Mexico didn't hold an election Sun day Actually Mexico isn't a democracy The Mexican government is almost as as much of a dictatorship as is that of nazi Germany Mexican Mexican can can- elections are almost as meaningless There is really only one organized political party in Mexico the Mexico the Party of the Mexican I I Revolution called P. P R. R M M. This party controls 1 the election machinery and can manipulate the results as it pleases Under the Mexican system the ballots are not noG even counted for four sour days after the elec tion Even then the results do not have to be announced by the government for two months Thus there is ample opportunity and time for juggling the returns if necessary Furthermore the election itself is more of a free for for all than an orderly poll of the elec elee By Bylaw law the first citizens at t the polls run the election Thus control of the polling places becomes a matter of survival of the f fittest Truth of the matter is that the law of survival survival survival sur sur- vival of the fittest governs not only the elections elec but all of Mexico Mexico- The party in power can only be turned out by revolution revolution and and an election is merely a test of revolutionary strength The opposition knows it cant can't win in the ballot count but if it can show enough strength in the election free free for for all it may initiate initiate ini a revolt which will sweep the ins out and the outs in Whatever may maybe be the final outcome of Sundays Sunday's Sundays Sundays Sunday's Sun days day's election in Mexico it proves that the western hemisphere has a long way to go to establish true democracy throughout its length and that the United States and the few other truly democratic c countries of this hemisphere have a difficult task before them in holding the internal hemisphere front against the tide of dictatorship |