[Texan5]

I hope you're right-he shouldn't have taken a page from Al Gore's playbook.

I have a cousin who works for an American hotel chain in Guadalajara and lives there, and also 2 cousins who work for American companies and live in Torreon. They have told me in e-mail that it is quiet where they are, but they are worried about all this, and thinking of asking the companies they work for to transfer them back to Texas. They are concerned that Obregon's people will try to target Americans who are obviously of Mexican ancestry and American companies in some way.

[StJacques]

Lopez Obrador's people haven't crossed the line to violence yet, and AMLO himself fears it because he knows it will split his party and his coalition between those favoring radical change through peaceful means and those willing to use violence outright. And it's impossible for me to tell whether it will happen one way or another. But I will say this; once the genie gets out of the bottle, there will be no putting him back.

And as a side comment, I don't think your friends and relatives are in any danger where they are right now. But they should stay away from the center of Mexico and its southern areas if this thing comes undone.