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Is there any indication that the numbers attending these "informative assemblies" are dwindling?

It would seem that people with jobs and responsibilities have to go home at some point and go on with life.

Only the rabble can carry on Obrador's little crusade.

There was clearly a decline in the demonstration last week from the numbers who attended the second one, two weeks earlier. The second demonstration evidently brought togeether around 1.2 million people, even though the PRD predicted they would have over 2 million. But last Sunday the Mexican press openly rejected the PRD's claims that over a million attended and set the number at just under or approaching 800,000. The PRD got very angry about that reporting and were very critical of the press early last week.

I haven't seen any official numbers for today's demonstrations but I have no doubt whatsoever they will be significantly less than last week. Lopez Obrador and the PRD depend upon people in Mexico City and the surrounding State of Mexico to show up for these protest meetings and these people have been complaining openly about the shutdown of central Mexico City by AMLO and his followers this week, and numerous defections from his organization have become very public, so I must assume that attendance is dwindling. But I'll put some numbers up for you when and if I find them.

Union members get paid to do this sort of thing, even if under-the-table. Fortunately, some unions are still loyal to the PRI and the PRI has been getting along with the PAN more than usual since the power-hungry Roberto Madrazo left the helm. Madrazo wanted Mexico to collapse under Fox's rule so that he could be elected president "to end the gridlock against the PRI". Jerk.