According to the Washington Post, hundreds of thousands of Mexicans protested government action to imprison the Mayor of Mexico City, thus preventing him from running for President.

“The business of America, says President Bush, is spreading democracy. “The leaders of governments with long habits of control need to know: To serve your people, you must learn to trust them,” Bush said in his inaugural address this January. “Start on this journey of progress and justice and America will walk at your side.”

Unless, of course, you’re Mexican.”