¡No mas sangre!

MexicoReporter.com has actually been around for some time, but I’d lost track of it and am happy to rediscover both the site (which you should bookmark for excellent Mexico-based English-language reportage) and the site’s editor, Deborah Bonello, who perhaps should not be referred to as a “foreign correspondent”:  she’s a foreigner, and a correspondent, her by-line appearing over the last several years in several British and U.S. “mainstream” publications.  But, Deborah Bonello isn’t some fly-in reporter who relies on the “usual suspects” to explicate a news story, but one who understands how Mexican  cultural trends affect the news, or the news the cultural trends.

Sinaloa, perhaps because it’s a main target of the Calderón “war”, has been slow to join the “¡No mas sangre!” movement, but traveling around the country recently, it’s impossible to miss the banners going up everywhere, even in conservative places like Jalisco.  One thing I think it’s imperative to note in the video is John Ackermann’s observation that while Mexican politicos follow polls — in making statements (and don’t all politicos everywhere do that?) — they tend to act when there are social movements that take to the streets.

By the way, did I mention that you should bookmark MexicoReporter.com?