For weeks the Goliaths of Mexican politics bombarded the airwaves with advertisements so dreary they made you want to leave the country. So Mexicans were thrilled when political Davids, with almost no publicity and little money, triumphed in congressional and regional elections on June 7th. Independent candidates, allowed to run for the first time, profited from disillusionment with big parties. One trounced mainstream rivals in Nuevo Leon, a rich northern state. A candidate from a tiny protest party became mayor of the second-largest city, Guadalajara. Pedro Kumamoto, an unaffiliated 25-year-old, won a seat in a local legislature in central Mexico with a catchy Facebook campaign called "Yes, walls do fall down."
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