PROTESTS IN MEXICO:

Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans marched in silence Sunday against a government campaign to put a popular leftist politician on trial in a battle that could knock him out of presidential elections.

Protesters crammed into Mexico City’s vast central square and narrow streets in the historic downtown, many waving banners condemning the legal case against Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

“Don’t let democracy die,” read one banner. Others vilified President Vicente Fox as a traitor and dictator.

(Via Joe’s Dartblog, which observes: “It is amusing, if not scary, that Americans often have a better idea of what is going on politically across the Atlantic than the situation south of the border.”)