Exactly! These updates encompass just the sort of thing the MSM should be informing us of, yet consistently fails to. As Americans, we need to know far more about Canada, Mexico and the rest of Latin America than we do, and we underestimate Chavez, the PRD and the rest of the anti-American Latin American Left at our peril.
For instance, I believe that had America been more informed about Hugo Chavez, there would have been a swell and cry to support the coup that temporarily deposed him.
What's happening in Mexico may be the birth of a transparent (classical)liberal democratic republic or the beginning of a civil war on our border. If its progress along those lines doesn't constitute news, I don't know what does.
I was having a little bit of trouble figuring this post out until I realized who Cardenas was, and that makes this bit of news enormously important.
Even students of Mexican history sometimes don't have this stuff on the tips of their tongue and it's good to have discussion of the material with people who are on top of it.
In terms of politics this is comparable to Republicans stepping aside so that Lieberman can smack around the far leftwingnut candidate who stole the Connecticut primary.
Or, maybe it's even more important and meaningful than that. More like "W" helping Lieberman dig a grave (politically speaking) for the Algore.