Lightning of hope in Mexico’s election

“Have you seen the Lightning of Hope? I mean the masked man in shimmering yellow wrestler tights and flowing cape, who looks like he can fly? He was out there in front of the IFE, Mexico’s Federal Elections Institute, spearheading a demonstration, exhorting, “Queremos que el conteo siga siguiendo.” We want the count to go on, shouted the popular caped crusader.

Following the July 2 presidential election, he was part of a preemptive demonstration by about 200 protesters demanding a total recount of some 130,000 voting places before a district-by-district tally was completed.

The protesters represent a constituency commentators refer to as populist, and sometimes as leftist. They also are referred to as the “marginalized.” Many come from slum districts. They are for Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD by its Spanish initials. Lopez Obrador mobilized them when he was Mexico City’s mayor, and again as presidential candidate.”

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