Mexico: Obrador's guys trap IFE in building as they seek to open sealed ballots and truck them away

[Via extremely alert reader Charles.]

I’m sure there’s a very good explanation…

Here’s a Google translation of the La Jornada story:

On the other hand, in Villahermosa, Tabasco, about 500 militant PRD members maintained tonight retained to ten assistants of Instituto Federal Electoral (IFE) in the third district with seat in the municipality of Comalcalco at least.

According to the denunciation of the PRD member Javier May Rodriguez, the retained ones were surprised when they entered the offices of that district to open the electoral packages and to remove documentation, after breaking official seals.

Around the 18 hours, neighbors of the place warned the PRD [Obrador’s party] members who a group of people had introduced itself to the offices of the organ and removed to the patio electoral packages to open them. They affirmed that he was observed reviewing scrutiny acts to them and counting votes.

In addition, he has himself in front of retained a light truck - with logotipo of the BREAD [another acronym for PAN, Calderon’s party] parked the building, in which he is created would take the electoral documentation.

May Rodriguez said that she faced the electoral civil employees and she asked to them who had issued the order to violate seals of the premises and to open the packages.

The electoral assistants argued that the president of the distrital advice, Castilian Takings Alfonso, instructed them to enter the offices and for that reason the military who protect the premises allowed the entrance them. He mentioned that before these facts one communicated to Villahemosa, with the local advisor of the IFE, Aída Castillo, that said to him that he was ” surprised ” reason why it happened. He narrated that they came to speak to a notary so that gave faith of the facts.

Tonight a group of leaders of the PRD went to the offices of the Office of the public prosecutor Specialized for the Attention of Electoral Crimes in Villahermosa, to interpose the denunciation. To Comalcalco - where to the closing of this edition they remained retained the electoral civil employees arrived the senator PRD member Caesar Raul Ojeda.

Charles’s summary of the original above:

In Villahermosa, Tabasco, the PRD was tipped that people had broken the official seals with the intent of altering documents, and were allowed in the IFE offices by the obliging military guards; a PAN truck was parked out in front. It turned out these were local IFE personnel, who argued that the district president Tomás Alfonso Castellanos [note to self: check if TAC is a local cacique] had ordered them to do this. 500 PRDists converged on the offices, made a citizen’s arrest (I think) and are presently holding the IFE personnel. The local IFE rep in Villahermosa said he was “surprised” by this report.

Remember Ohio 2004 in Warren County, when the Republicans sealed off the building where the votes were being counted, because of a terror alert that the FBI said was fake?

In Villahermosa, that’s not happening.

Good for Mexico, good for the Mexican people, good for justice.