- Mexicans are going to the polls, for all the difference it will make – good coverage at La Jornada.
- COHA has analysis of the election prospects here, though sees far greater differences between the PRI and PAN than I would discern at this point.
- Meanwhile the Televisa scandal won’t go away.
- Jo Tuckman’s book on Mexico, Democracy Interrupted, is reviewed by Professor Alan Knight in the Guardian.
- Protestations that violence is coming under control are undermined by the steady stream of stories such as this: open gun battles between different arms of the state.
- Subject to shareholder approval, Anheuser-Busch has completed its acquisition of the Modelo brewery empire.
- Gio dos Santos has had enough of being Spurs’ forgotten man and will go back to Spain to revive his career.
- Son of Culiacán and one-time New York Met Óliver Pérez is back in the big leagues with the Seattle Mariners.
Dr. William A. Booth
Mexico, Latin America and the Global Left
Dr. William A. Booth 