Sunday, January 30, 2011

Last-ditch dirty tricks by PRI: Robocalls and erroneous voting instructions

Yet another fake edition of the La Jornada newspaper appeared this week in Guerrero, where the "front page" called upon voters to mark on the ballot both the party logos for PRD and PAN in order to vote for Aguirre. This, of course, would invalidate the vote itself, as one can only vote for one option - while the PAN candidate declined in favor of the PRD candidate, this came to late to print new election material - which is, of course, the very intent of whoever is behind the fake newspaper.

In addition, the real La Jornada reports of robocalls made in favor of PRI candidate Manuel Añorve Baños, as well as anonymous calls asking people not to leave their house to vote as things are about to "get ugly" in their area.

Dirty tricks to the very end.

While you're waiting for the Guerrero election results....

Here's a great little documentary available freely on youtube, where Mexican writer Paco Taibo II trails the footsteps of Francisco "Pancho" Villa... well worth your time!