[lbo-talk] Okay so maybe camping out in the Zocalo isn't such a great idea...

[Eric]

>I agree, but if the Mexican economy has been as ravaged as US and 
>Mexican leftists say it has, then why isn't there more discontent? 
>The PRD is hardly radical, and the other 2/3 represent votes for 
>some quite conservative parties.

The turnout for the election was 60%. I read that as at least 40% 
discontentment, which is more than any of the parties got. And if 
elections in the Mexico are like the ones in the U.S.--which I 
suspect they are (I can't find any polling data), probably even more 
so--that 40% is disproportionately poor and disenfrachised.