Lopez Obrador Leads Tens of Thousands in Protest of Mexican Oil Reforms Richard Fausset - The Los Angeles Times
go to original September 8, 2013

El excandidato presidencial de la izquierda mexicana Andrés Manuel López Obrador pidió a los mexicanos oponerse al proyecto de reforma energética del gobierno, en un acto que reunió a más de 40.000 personas. (afpes)

MEXICO CITY — Tens of thousands of Mexicans jammed the center of their capital city Sunday to protest President Enrique Peña Nieto’s plan to allow foreign firms to invest in and collaborate with the state-run oil company, whose independence from outside influence has been a source of national pride for decades.

The city government estimated that 44,000 people crowded downtown’s Avenida Juarez to hear the anti-reform arguments of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the two-time presidential candidate and de facto leader of the Mexican left.

Although reform supporters appear to have enough votes in congress and state legislatures to approve the proposal, which requires a constitutional change, Lopez Obrador insisted Sunday that a popular uprising, if large enough, could stop the plan in its tracks.

“I am sure we are going to stop these anti-patriotic reforms,” Lopez Obrador said, standing in front of a three-story sign that read: “NO TO THE ROBBERY OF ALL TIME.” He added: “Don’t let anyone think it’s not possible.”

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