[Kenny Bunk]

Perhaps I may be overly desperate for good news from Oaxaca, but good news is exactly what I am making of your latest report and your links.

I predict that as soon as this simmers down a bit more, Calderón's government will throw out Ruiz on his ear (in a nice Mexican way, of course), and call for new, closely monitored elections in Oaxaca, in which Congress will acquiesce.

Maybe this Obrador Clymer can still be be finessed (triangulated?) into a manageable corner. It ain't gonna be easy. The Left in many countries, including our own, and Chile, has the unique ability to derail progress by convincing the less well mentally-equipped, which in any country can seem to effortlessly form a majority, that the progress being made is somehow leaving them out and mysteriously favoring others.

[StJacques]

I'm going to withhold further commentary on what may look like "good news" from Oaxaca until after I see how the second voting proceeds on Monday and Tuesday, though I suspect the SNTE is gravitating away from APPO.

norton made a really good comment -- yesterday? -- about (I'm paraphrasing from memory) "an animal being most dangerous when cornered," an observation I said then applied to APPO and some of the stuff I'm reading today reinforces that opinion of mine. APPO could do something truly radical this week. Just what, I don't know, but I'm expecting them to do something. Remember that I predicted this right here.