Don Goyo on the election...

... on the morning the judges decided against a total recount, as if it were echoing the mood of AMLO's people, Popocatepetl, the smoking volcano south of the capital whose eruptions traditionally presage dark days for this distant neighbor nation, exhaled seven great gasps of fiery rock and ash for the first time in several years. John Ross, "The Smoking Volcano" in The Nation (8 August 2006)

And, Roberto Gomez, formerly of Time Magazine and the U.S. State Department, has a comprehensive roundout of Mexican press reports on the latest election news at SFGate's World News Roundout