And MORENA did not quite get the outcome of the election they expected. The most voted candidate teo the Supreme Court was Nuu Savi (Mixtec) attorney Hugo Aguilar Ortiz who will be the next president of the high Court

whether Aguilar will defend indigenous rights vs. megaprojects?

Still to be seen

But many voters did spoil their ballots as a form of protest as in the era of PRI hegemony.

Discontent did not mean citizens shirked from the civic duty

Mexican elections are run by citizens who volunteer in the polling booths, which were all installed

INE oversaw with professionalism.

Turnout was very low, but that does not automatically mean democratic practices were eroded

Citizens did not quite understand what they were voting for

There is no obvious counterfactual for what the "normal" turnout would be.

The complexity of the ballot would perplex any rational voter

The election of judges at all levels including the Supreme Court is not enhancing democracy

The misunderstanding comes from believing democracy = voting. The most important aspect of democratic accountability of power to citizens comes from the institutions that create checks and balances on power

This intelectual and scholarly aggiornamiento means reading and learning about the NEW scholarly work

Acemoglu, Robinson y Johnson (institutions) Banerjee y Duflo (poverty)
Przeworski (socialdemocracy)
Piketty (inequality)
Otros Saberes (indigenous and afrodescendant peoples)

1. Democracy: only regime that self corrects errors
2. Political institutions as checks and balances on power
3. Social democracy makes market and redistribution compatible
4. Poverty relief based on evidence and evaluation
5. Other Knowledges by original peoples social movements