Mexican presidential candidate’s supporters seize toll booths, blockade gov’t offices

Mexican presidential candidate’s supporters seize toll booths, blockade gov’t offices
Supporters of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the defeated Mexican presidential candidate, have stepped up their protests as officials prepare to partially recount July’s election.

Followers of Lopez Obrador’s Democratic Revolution Party occupied motorway toll booths to give motorists free entry to Mexico City and blockaded government offices as party officials said the protests would grow.

“Until now we have concentrated an important part of our protests in the capital, but in this new stage we are going to carry out actions all over the country,” Guadalupe Acosta, the party’s secretary general said.

 
Acosta said the protests "will be coordinated, national actions with the same objective: that they open the boxes and count the votes”......

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