(5 Jul 2003)
Mexico City - 5 July 2003
1. Wide shot of neighborhood
2. Mid shot of neighborhood
3. Propaganda sticker on window
4. Close up of sign that reads 'Mazahua Organization of San Antonio Pueblo Nuevo'
5. Wide shot of congress candidate Josefina Flores
6. Flores greeting people
7. Close up of Josefina Flores speaking to people
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Josefina Flores, Mexico Possible Party Congress Candidate
Flores: "Like I told you. First, I want the indigenous people to have a proper space to live in, because here, in Mexico City Center, we are many indigenous people."
Question: And how are the indigenous people treated?
Flores: "We come here because of necessity, not because we want to. In our town there is not enough work and the only thing we find here is a live of selling things on the street. Many of us don't know how to read or write; they can't work everywhere. People can't give them work because they don't have studies. We can't work as secretaries, for example, because we don't know how to read and write."
Q: Do you know how to read and write?"
Flores: "Now yes, before I didn't."
9. Mexico Possible party logo
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Mexico City - June 2003
10. Wide shot of people applauding Mexico Possible party's congress candidate Amaranta Gomez
11. Wide shot of Mexico Possible party's congress candidates
12. Close up of Amaranta Gomez
13. Wide shot of Mexico Possible party's congress candidates
14. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): Amaranta Gomez, Mexico Possible Congressional Candidate
"In Juchitan people accept that sexual diversity is a part of their social entourage, it is a part of culture, of social dynamics, it is cultural, economical and political. Therefore it was possible, of course, to be a sexual diversity candidate."
15. Wide shot of Mexico Possible party's press conference
16. People applauding Amaranta Gomez
Mexico City - 5 July 2003
17. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Luis Carlos Ugalde, Investigator, Centre of Investigation and Economic Development (CIDE)
"These types of candidates are a minority, most candidates are professional politicians, and therefore these isolated cases are different. I would differ two kinds of candidates, you mentioned artists and on the other hand some minorities; in the case of Mexico Possible party, they have candidates from minorities: homosexuals, lesbians, deaf, and that is perfectly respectable, valid and even stimulates the participation of those kinds of groups."
18. Close up of Luis Carlos Ugalde's hands typing at computer
19. Close up of Luis Carlos Ugalde at computer
STORYLINE:
The Mexico Posible Party (which means Mexico Possible Party in English) is a new, small party which is becoming famous for running in elections with unusual candidates.
The party, which has 93-thousand members, participates in the election race with candidates from various ethnic or sexual minorities, AIDS-sufferrers while other candidates are either deaf or blind.
One of these candidates is Josefina Flores, a so-called Mazahua, which means an indigenous folk.
Flores works as a street vendor and lives in a poor neighborhood.
She is also a local congress candidate in Mexico City, who is not directly elected, but is assigned a seat in congress according to the number of votes that that particular party gets.
Analysts say however, that Flores' chance of getting a seat in congress are very slim as the Mexico Possible party would need one million votes to even think about giving her a seat.
According to Flores, only indigenous people understand the problems and the suffering of the indigenous communities in Mexico.
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