Homage to a Hero of mine:

The Mexican election, tossing out the PRI, is a part triumph for Homero Aridjis, who was persecuted as a poet in Mexico for many years, and on a famous day in 1985, when the pollution in Mexico City got so bad that people were openly dying on the streets, he started the Mexican environmental movement with a petition to the government excoriating their inactivity. Since then, he has thrown himself into the protection of monarch butterflies, creating whale sanctuaries, and just beating up on a corrupt and stupid government to improve the disastrous pollution of his beloved country, to his own personal cost. There are heroes out there: Homero is one of them. I wish him and his fellow fighters in the lucha good luck in what is -- with all of its flaws (the new president was after all the President of Coca Cola Mexico) -- a new day.