Another Mexican Revolution

“Another revolution has broken out in Mexico, the second in our lifetimes in that country of continuous revolution, where even the government celebrates revolution and clasps to its bosom the interests and desires and images and culture of the poor and indigenous while at the same time systematically excluding them from power if not from welfare programs.

A former governor from the state of Tabasco, the former mayor of Mexico City and leader of the Party of Democratic Revolution (PRD), had himself proclaimed “legitimate president” of Mexico in the central square of the capital on Saturday, September 16 by over a million supporters although it appears he narrowly lost the election.”

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