Thursday, January 20, 2011

Añorve campaign repeats dirty tricks from last campaign: Fake newspapers

When Manuel Añorve ran for mayor of Acapulco in 2008, his supporters produced a fake version of the newspaper El Sur, where the front page declared in bold, "Walton recognizes the triumph of Añorve."

Now it seems they've done it again: Today's regional La Jornada edition had the following image:
The headline state, "Ángel Aguirre lose the debate," referring to the debate held the night before between Aguirre and Añorve, the two front runners to be the next governor of Guerrero.
The problem: The newspaper is fake, yet was distributed, in real-looking newsprint, to thousands of homes as well as newspaper stand, reportedly by Añorve activists.

The PRI campaign appears increasingly desperate as its once-safe Guerrero victory has turned into a very probable defeat, and a victory for Aguirre. They have a more than 8-decades long history of subverting democracy in Mexico; expect them to pull out many more dirty tricks before the election the end of this month.

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