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"At this point I feel that all this stuff away from the main election result is actually forms of anarchy or worse."

I've translated at least two editorials from Mexico City newspapers which make the case that contesting "the main election result" is what is really behind the transformation of the Oaxacan situation into a "crisis of ingovernability." If the precedent can be set of removing an elected chief executive in the state of Oaxaca by the promotion of anarchy, then supposedly the same could be done at the national level. This is why the refusal of APPO and the SNTE to accept the referendum offer made by Segob is so significant. Ruiz would clearly lose in any such referendum. That means it's not what results from the protest, i.e. "the removal of Ulises Ruiz as Governor," but how he is removed that is important to the Mexican Left. They want to fix the popular consciousness upon extra-legal means as acceptable in Mexican political and governmental life.

All of the above is another way of saying that the Oaxacan protest is an attack on Mexican institutions and not on Ulises Ruiz. The Left feels they must weaken Mexico's political and governmental institutions or they will fail.