MEXICO:1ST UPDATE: Number of Dead, Missing Drastically Revised In Oaxaca Landslide.

LINK CHANGE/ NYTIMES/  28 SEPT/   An early report--- by Oaxaca's controversial lame-duck governor Ulises Ruiz that 300 homes were covered and 1,000 people were dead from a massive early morning landslide in the indigena village of Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec--- were highly overblown.  It appears that only 11 people — three adults and eight children — were confirmed as missing while the landslide buried four houses and threatened 30 more.

MEXICO: Combining Parties In Oaxaca To Defeat The Dominant PRI.

NYTIMES/       An inside politics story about how the divergent parties on the left and right in Oaxaca state are trying to unite to defeat the long dominant party there, the PRI and its outgoing, much-detested leader, Ulysses Ruiz.
NYTIMES: "To the party strategists in Mexico City, a win by Mr. Cué in Oaxaca will prove that a coalition is the best way to stop a return to the presidency by the PRI in the 2012 election."

Mexico's Supreme Court Rules Oaxacan Governor Violated Citizen's Rights.

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Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled that Oaxaca Gov. Ulises Ruiz’s government violated individual rights during disturbances from May 2006 to January 2007 that saw 20 people die.
The high court said “The governor of the state of Oaxaca bears clear and plain responsibility” for what happened.