Oaxaca

So I find that I have more to say about North Korea, thousands of miles and an ocean away, than I do about Oaxaca which is just a little south of here in Mexico. To some extent the business in Mexico comes as a surprise because mostly the situation down there has been ignored by the media - which has its attention elsewhere.

This much seems clear, a revolution is under way. The newly elected government is clearly not justly elected in the heart and minds of the people - and that is what counts more than the fact or endorsements by observers. As always, the vacuum of revolution is sucking in causes and it is to be lamented that the old tired cause of socialism is the only one present to take advantage of the tension. Let's be grateful that it is not the Islamic cause or some other irrational religious cause, like fundamental Christians ... wait for it ...