Weekly Report - 22 November 2007 (INNS 1741-7422)

On 18 November between 150 and 200 supporters of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the leftwing candidate defeated by Felipe Calderón Hinojosa in the presidential elections in 2006, rioted in Mexico's main cathedral, on the Zócalo in Mexico City. The Roman Catholic Church responded by closing the cathedral: the municipal government, which supports López Obrador, which supports retorted that the Church did not have the right to do this because the cathedral was a national monument.