Town Booted Out Mexico's Political Parties, But Now Some Residents Want Them Back Melissa del Pozo - VICE News
go to original May 18, 2015

Cheran residents at the May 3 council election. (Alejandro Guerrero)

A small band of citizens in Mexico has stood up to what they call their corrupt government, demanding accountability and calling local elections a fraudulent display of the politics of cronyism.

It might sound like a common conflict in any of the remote towns in Mexico that in a less than a month will elect mayors and lawmakers from within the country's established political parties.

But it is actually the opposite.

In Cheran, Michoacan, some residents are now openly opposed to its citizen-led "high council" form of government, put in place here to great expectations just four years ago. And surprisingly, the dissident residents of Cheran want Mexico's old party system back in place.

VICE News traveled to Cheran, an indigenous farming community set amid Michoacan's forested hillsides, to observe the town's "high council" election on May 3. It was not a pretty sight.

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