After Call for Unity, Leftists Lopez Obrador and Cuauhtemoc Go Their Separate Ways La Jornada
go to original September 22, 2013

Independently of their call for unity in defense of oil and against the tax increase, Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas will each carry out his own actions.

Cardenas won't attend Sunday's march called by López Obrador, the leader of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), from the Angel of Independence to the Zócalo [central plaza of Mexico City], but he will participate in forums on energy reform organized by the Senate. Meanwhile, Lopez Obrador won't attend the forums on the grounds that they are a simulation, because "everything is already worked out", he said, to pass the constitutional amendments on October 15.

In an interview yesterday with Carmen Aristegui, he said he had obtained a document from the PRI and Enrique Peña Nieto that establishes the strategy to be followed in the Senate to fulfill that role. He said that this document includes holding the forums and the names of those who were invited, including himself and intellectuals, and "it is noted that everything is under control, everything packaged for the media."

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