UPDATE -- Please head over to the fiesta in
mariacha mama's election diary where you can hear the Oaxaca report.
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Mexican and Chicano(a) kossaks, or just those on the ground watching AMLO v. Calderon up close -
Fox News has blacked out their broadcast inside your borders to adhere to election laws as has AMLO's website and Calderon's too.
Kossak mango says his employees switched allegiance from populist and former Mexico City mayor AMLO to Calderon for the mere price of a free t shirt. Ouch!
mariachi mama is weathering the violent teacher strikes in Oaxaca and hoping just for a peaceful election, but predicts Calderon will edge out a win.
If
Yucatan Man is on the ground his head is up in the cloud of defecting Kansas Republicans.
As the campaign wound down on June 28th, with voting to take place on July 2, Bloomberg reports:
"It is impossible to know who is going to win," said Jorge Chabat, a political scientist at the Mexico City- based Center for Economic Research and Teaching. "The distance between the candidates is very small."
Wikipedia on AMLO.