Upset over alleged election fraud, some 200 men armed with rocks, sticks and machetes blocked the highway and stoned vehicles in this town in the edgy southern state of Chiapas. Some 1,500 others seized City Hall.
The protesters Tuesday were upset over results of the Aug. 21 poll, which locally found ruling party candidate Eduardo Robledo Rincon winning as governor with 51 percent of the vote.Mexican and foreign observers reported hundreds of voting irregularities but are not sure the results were significantly affected.
Nationally, Institutional Revolutionary Party candidate Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon won the presidency, and the party kept its 65-year hold on power with a strong majority in Congress.