Elections and Floods

Mex Files has a good exposition of the upcoming elections in Mexico here.  For those of you who speak Spanish, and even those who don't but can make sense of maps and cognates, this link to El Diario provides you with a lot of very good information about them, including who is voting for what, elections not held the 5th of July, etc. We are very aware of elections since cars with loudspeakers have been tooling around neighborhoods with great frequency.  However, as you can read in Mexico, electioneering right up to the voting centers as happens in the US is prohibited and in fact by law pretty much stops 72 hours before the event.  If I remember correctly, liquor is not sold in the US on Election Day.  Here in Xalapa, it was illegal to sell liquor forty eight hours previous to the election, but that has been reduced to 24 hours.

On the flooding in our area.

From today's El Diario , a snapshot of the Xalapa-Banderilla highway where much of the flooding has occured.

It seems that as in the United States, the paving over of large swatches of land with parking lots and large box buildings and highway contributes to the problem.   The La Martinica- Banderilla area is very hilly and prone to landslides and rushes of water to begin with, and the development along it has just increased problems. A basket of efforts has been proposed by elected and civil service officials, both short and long term.