"Goodbye, precious pederast": Puebla sends off Mario Marín

Today is the last day of Mario Marín's six-year criminal reign of Puebla.
El Universal reports that banners appeared around Puebla today, with slogans such as "In Puebla, Never More Precious Ones" and "Goodbye, precious pederast," in clear allusion to Marín's protection of pedophiles, leaked in the infamous phone conversations of 2006. I still have not given up the hope that Marín will eventually rot in jail.

Good riddance.

Mexican party politics, as summarized by Jorge Castañeda in one paragraph:

Castañeda dixit:

"PRI defenders invent that everything  was great until 2000 and then everything went bad with the PAN; the PAN says that everything was a mess before 2000, and the PRD say that everything has always been shitty, except when general Cárdenas was president."

AMLO "revelation": Gordillo wanted to negotiate with him ahead of 2006

I know I've heard and even read this on several occasions, so I am not quite sure what the great news value is, yet if nothing else, it is now officially confirmed by AMLO: Ahead of the 2006 election, the all-too-powerful head of the SNTE teachers union, Elba Esther Gordillo, wanted to negotiate with the then-presidential candidate, yet AMLO refused to have a meeting.

On the one hand, it certainly speaks to AMLO's integrity that he refused to negotiate with Gordillo, a person devoid of any ideology but her lust for power, yet at the same time, it is equally well known that Gordillo threw here PANAL party behind Calderón's candidacy, very likely ensuring the victory of the PAN candidate. AMLO, had he negotiated with Gordillo, would likely not be merely the "legitimate president," but the actual president of Mexico.

Aguirre's is a shock victory: PRD-left coalition candidate wins by +13%

The PREP, or the preliminary results program of the Guerrero state electoral institute,  is now 99.3 percent completed, and Ángel Aguirre Rivero is ahead 55.95 to 42.7 for Manuel Añorve Baños.

To his discredit, Manuel Añorve put up a charade merely minutes after the polls closed, where he declared himself a winner.

This is an election with many clear winners - Aguirre, Jesús Ortega, Marcelo Ebrard, campaign chief Jésus Zambrano, DIA coordinator Manuel Camacho, etc - and many losers - Beatriz Paredes, Enrique Peña Nieto, Manlio Fabio Beltrones, Fernando Castro Trenti, and, to be sure, the new president-elect of the PRI, Humberto Moreira.

Yet lest we forget: Despite dire warnings, grounded in real events, of election violence, there were few major disturbances on election day - no murders of campaign activists or violence against voters. Whatever one think of the election results and the candidates: One clear winner is Guerrero democracy.

Ángel Aguirre wins in Guerrero

All pollsters report that Ángel Aguirre's advantage is outside the margin of error; while the counting continues, it is all but certain that the candidate of the left coalition has won the Guerrero gubernatorial elections.

See Consulta Mitofsky, which is projecting Aguirre winner here.

See the PREP where live results are coming in here.

This is an absolutely remarkable comeback for the PRD and the left coalition behind Aguirre, and a stunning defeat for PRI, as well as Enrique Peña Nieto, which had up until relatively recently taken their victory for granted.

For the record: Manuel Añorve Baños has also declared himself the winner....