Mexico City Shut down by Recount Protesters

Angry protesters in Mexico city shut down access to the city forcing many city and office workers to walk to work today.  The protesters are demanding a recount of the recent election.

Its important to consider that Mexico is an oil producing country.  This puts one more oil producing country into play of the political turmoil cards.  For the second time in almost as many decades Mexico faces serious problems relating to political turmoil surrounding its democracy. 

In a world where all politics is local, it should be important for the United States to consider the most appropriate steps to help Mexico work through this democratical growing pain and help establish more reliable voting measures.  Unfortunately, the United States has little moral high ground to stand on in this area after voting irregularities created a constitutional crisis in 2000, and smaller voting irregularities surfaced in again in a back to back presidential election in 2004.

The United States needs to pay attention to the stability of its oil producing suppliers whether they are allies or not. 

Venezuela is contemplating purchasing arms from the former Soviet Union and threatening to shut off supplies to the US, while simultaneously negotiating oil supply contracts with China.

Saudi Arabia issued statements over the weekend that Israel's actions 'could lead to regional war.'  They purposefully did not indicate, whether they would be involved in that war against Israel.

Iran has moved one step closer to a show down with the United Nations over its Nuclear program. 

Iraq continues to underperform in oil output.


Whether there is an invisible hand, terrorist hand, or sovereign competing countries hand behind the problems in each of these countries, if viewed as a chess board, it would appear that countries that supply the United States oil are slowly being torn apart or torn away from the United States.

Might a check mate follow???

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