Sergey you're completely right. I'm just wondering what the impact of our own 2000 election will have on those countries who find themselves in the same closely contested election. Will the defeated candidate pull a gore, and try and bluster his way to power with a coterie of lawyers and political hired guns, or will he rise above it all, as Richard Nixon did in the 1960 race. Nixon could have been a whimpering cry baby, like gore, and appealed his loss to the courts, but Nixon refused saying it would be bad for the country and its institutions to challenge the results in the courts. Even the black prince showed a bit of chivalry on this one. One can only hope that Obrador will show the courage and consider his country before his own self-interest. Given he's a leftist/socialist/howard dean type, I'm sure he'll choose the low road, showing once again what a classless bunch the left is.
This is Mexico, and the defeated candidate is an ally of Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. The guns are unlikely to be political, but all too real.