Merida's rabidly pro-PAN (National Action Party) daily newspaper, El Diario de la Yucatan, is forever locked in battle with PRI (the Institutional Revolutionary Party), which controls both the city of Merida and the state government of Yucatan. Now El Diario says that Mexicans fed up with PRI deception and mismanagement must use social communication networks "as if they were AK-47s." Government officials can never be trusted to tell people the truth about much of anything, according to El Diario, so they have to find out for themselves and spread the word. The paper calls social media the new "cuernos de chivo," or goat horns -- a street nickname, surely known to every Mexican, for the ubiquitous AK-47.
Speaking of Mexican politics, here in Merida -- a declared 2011 World City of Peace -- things got so out of control in July that people actually came to blows over a street project. Read the details: http://www.theyucatantimes.com/2011/07/violence-over-an-underpass-underscores-reality-of-gloves-off-politics-in-mexico/
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