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MEXICO - LOPEZ OBRADOR
Mexican leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador from the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) delivers a speech during a protest at Mexico City's Zocalo (main square) 01 December 2006, moments before the new President Felipe Calderon takes the constitutional oath at the Congress. Calderon took over as Mexico's new president in a surprise early Friday ceremony at Los Pinos presidential house. Early Friday, Mexican lawmakers broke into fisticuffs in Congress, less than two hours before Calderon was to be formally sworn in as Mexico's new president. Deputies from the PRD who had fiercely contested Calderon's victory and insisted that he won the election through fraud, have been holed up in the chamber for more than two days along with members of Calderon's National Action Party (PAN). AFP PHOTO/Yuri CORTEZ
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