Mexican protesters sour Calderon’s homecoming

“Angry protesters sabotaged a home-town public appearance by Mexico’s president-elect on Friday in what may be a taste of resistance to his rule vowed by a leftist rival claiming election fraud, media reported.

Conservative Felipe Calderon, named president-elect this week after a court threw out fraud claims by his leftist rival, was to place flowers in a square in his home town of Morelia in western Mexico as a tribute to a celebrated independence hero.”

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