My, that went well… or not
Enrique Peña Nieto cancelled his appearance here in Mazatlán (think it had anything to do with having a couple of Universities here in town?) in favor of a rally in Guasave. It must have gone well, with reports of 20,000 people turning out at Estadio Francisco Carranza Limón to hear the candidate. Which must have been a tight fit, since the stadium only has a seating capacity of 8000.
Well, it was an awfully hot day to be at the baseball stadium.
According to both the Sinaloan-based Noroeste and SDPNoticias the crowd (however many there actually were… Noroeste estimated 8000, including those sitting in the infield) began leaving early, before the candidate even showed up (only a half hour late, so not bad) to speak for … 20 minutes, amid tight security… what PRI state party leader (and former Guasave Presidente Muncipal) called “discrete” security. By discrete, he must have meant the fifty PRI militants who were there to stop the protesters and rip up protest signs.
This election gets more and more interesting all the time, going totally off script in the most delightful way.
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