"Mexico needs a revolution." Financial Times interview with Obrador

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Mexico's leftwing presidential candidate vowed at the weekend to continue to reject last month's election result with increasingly radical tactics conducted "from the streets".

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"The most important changes in Mexico have never come about through conventional politics but rather from the streets," he told the FT in a rare interview. Asked whether there was a danger that people would brand him a revolutionary, he replied: "Mexico needs a revolution."

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"If the fraud is ratified, I could not recognise the institutions, obviously I would not recognise Felipe Calderón because I would consider him to be a spurious, illegal and illegitimate president," he added. "We would fight to make democracy count, renovate the institutions and undertake the changes this country needs."

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"It makes no sense . . . Watergate is child's play compared with what went on here," he said. "But they(the authorities) don't want a full recount because they are going to find many irregularities

Mexico poll loser vows radical fight 'on street'
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/15123d78-30b1-11db-9156-0000779e2340.html