Mexicans concerned about security and stability as presidential vote nears

News from The Associated Press:
"In April, suspected drug lords posted the heads of two police officers on a wall outside a government building where four drug traffickers died in a Jan. 27 shootout with officers in the Pacific resort of Acapulco.
"A sign nearby read: 'So that you learn to respect.'"

This story also mentions that Sub-commandante Marcos of the currently quiescent insurgency in Chiapas has been making public statements again. Noted elsewhere is the inability of Nuevo Laredo to find a police chief after having three in a little more than a year.

As has been pointed out repeatedly in this space, Mexico is an incredibly badly run country. If AK-47s were as common in Mexico as they are in Iraq, Vicente Fox would be asking his buddy Jorge Arbusto for asylum in the US.