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Controversial Hitler ad ordered off Mexican TV From: uk.reuters.com

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“Mexico’s top electoral body ordered broadcasters to stop running a controversial TV ad on Monday that compares a firebrand leftist leading a siege of Congress to dictators Hitler and Pinochet.

The TV ad, funded by a Mexican businessman angry at a blockade of Congress by opposition lawmakers trying to derail an oil reform plan, says the antics of protest leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador are endangering democracy.

“The complaints committee decided unanimously to order the withdrawal of the spot from today,” a spokesman for the Federal Electoral Institute told Reuters.”*

*From: uk.reuters.com
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Posted on: April 22nd, 2008
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