Your comments, always welcome, don't dispute any facts that I have reported. They simply impute motive ("you want a crisis") and express your own asthetic tastes against "old fashioned" campaigns and in favor of "modern" (US-style) political discourse.

Even by the official results in which you seem to have such uncritical faith, more than 64 percent of Mexicans that voted chose the "old fashioned" paths, and in the coming days you and the rest of the world will see the evidence that the official results are riddled with bad counting, dirty tricks, and an unlevel and unfree process.

I'll leave you to your own sophist gymnastics to reconcile your defense of "conservative" (perhaps you meant to say "neoliberal"?) with your dislike for "old fashioned."  

I'm here to report the facts, first, and there is a huge job ahead in the coming days and weeks to do that. This is, whether you like it or not, an hour of moral crisis; one of those moments when the true character of every voice reveals itself.

The objective fact remains that the Mexican state is in a new and bigger stage of a credibility crisis that did not begin yesterday, but was exacerbated yesterday by its own inability to deliver a convincing result.

The second part of your rant has nothing to do with anything I have reported: it is an argument you are having perhaps with somebody else or maybe with yourself (what Andrea Dworkin says about "blaming and shaming the oppressed" has absolutely no reference nor relevance to anything about the current Mexican electoral and credibility crisis, certainly to nothing I have reported or said, it is a sideshow inserted into your comments, and a sign of the paucity of your argument that you  pull it out of thin air to unfairly imply that I've blamed or shamed the oppressed for anything. Unable to counter the factual bases of my reporting, you've simply invented a fantasy accusation of my beliefs. I expect better from you.)

I'm going to continue collecting, investigating, translating and reporting the facts, regardless of whether you or anyone else finds them inconvenient or bothersome. The facts themselves are doing the roaring here, not me.

That's something you could do, too, without even having to leave your house. A pity that you choose instead to rail against those of us who are doing the heavy lifting here, particularly because you have the ability and talent to do so if you choose to do so.

Your comments - and their tone - reveal that you essentially agree with the major fact of my report: that there is a post-electoral crisis in Mexico. It is that reality - and not my reporting of it - that is bothering you to distraction.

Wishing won't make that reality go away. Nor will blaming the messenger. And this messenger is immune to that style of false debate anyway. Onward to the real work at hand.

That said, I offer you a cordial saludo, and an agreement to disagree, from somewhere in a country called América.

Al