Mexico, December 19

(Cartoon by El Fisgón in La Jornada Man: Who are those praising the firm hand of Calderon? Woman: The same ones who claimed AMLO (the PRD presidential candidate) was a potential dictator. The spokesperson for APPO, Florentino Lopez said that he and two other members of APPO were kidnapped at gunpoint by local police who identified themselves as a death squad, were tortured over the course of two hours, and released. Teachers are blockading the Oaxaca State Institute of Public Education