Violence in 2 states as Mexicans vote in tense mid-term elections
Source: McClatchy
MEXICO CITY Masked assailants Sunday blocked access to voter precincts or burned ballot boxes in more than a dozen towns in the southern states of Oaxaca and Guerrero as voting in tense mid-term elections elsewhere unfolded with only minor disruption.
Thousands of soldiers and federal police patrolled Oaxaca and Guerrero, and the neighboring impoverished states of Chiapas and Michoacan, hotbeds of grievances against the government and Mexicos electoral system.
Shortly before noon, Lorenzo Córdova, head of the National Electoral Institute, said more than 99 percent of precincts had opened and were operating normally in the elections for the 500-seat lower house of Congress, legislators in assemblies in 16 states, nine governors and hundreds of mayors.
"We are defending the vote as the best way to exercise our democratic rights," Córdova said.
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malthaussen
(17,204 posts)They need to learn more sophisticated methods of cooking the books.
-- Mal
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Hire them all at good wages and then nickel and dime them back into hovels.
The use of computers as a new source of magical bullshit is too big a subject for us to attack here.
malthaussen
(17,204 posts)I believe she is on the ground in the middle of this.
-- Mal
bemildred
(90,061 posts)The English language coverage is slow and incomplete at best. And Mexico is largely a failed state at this point, the writ of the government does not reach to many places. But she knows her way around.