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Hi Saint. I hope your weekend's being good to you. Anyhow, it would seem that Cuauhtemoc's hard sell behind the scenes, trying to get PRD folks to back down, is having an impact. There's a whopping 3 digit sum marching to the Basilica de Guadalupe in Mexico City right now:

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/369794.html

To put this crowd of 700 into perspective, Mexico has at least 4 or 5 times that many people straddle in to visit the Teotihuacan pyramid dozens of miles North of there on any given publicly accessible day, even though it's not symbolic of a widely accepted religion like the Basilica is.

Yeah, the numbers are clearly falling off.

The whole thing was clearly at a turning point on Tuesday when the PRD and their allies had to sit down and calculate their own response to Monday's desalojo of their protestors from the grounds of the national legislature. AMLO began talking his convention shtick hoping to rile everyone up and, based upon what I have seen since, it appears to me that some of the folks are going home. Even Encinas said yesterday that he expects to see the encampments picked up in a couple of weeks.

We've got to keep our eyes on the actions of the TRIFE this week -- I expect them to announce the results of the recount and complete the first stage of the process wherein they tell everyone the votes -- and we still have to watch what will happen on September 1, and possibly the days leading up to it, when Fox will give his national address. Those are the things to look out for right now, but I am getting the feeling this whole thing is cooling off a bit.