Lopez Obrador, leftist candidate for

President of Mexico, hopes to join Hugo Chavez of

Venezuela, Evo Morales of Bolivia, and Luiz da Silva

of Brazil in forging an alliance to counterbalance

the hegemony of their "great northern neighbor."

In the meantime, President Bush is confident that

the fence we're building between the U. S. and Mexico

will keep all the radical ideas from Latin America from

invading the Home of the Brave and the Land of the Free.