- and watched. and watched. and watched, as they marched past for several hours - incredible numbers. I don't know what the number was, but it was a multiplier on 100,000. As a uk resident here, voluntary working I would like to remind PRI that the PRI government in the southern state of Chiapas in 1997 were accountable for the massacre of innocent women, men & children in the village of Acteal. All the paramilitary who committed this atrocity have still not been caught. It was PRI who in 1994 signed the NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement] agreement which has favoured the USA & Canada & not Mexico [who are still suffering from a shortage of their own Maize [sweetcorn] & contamination of Maize & some other foods by USA GMO's. I agree with everything written here. There is extreme poverty & I have seen this & some of the northern states crops were completely destroyed this year from lack of basic rain. Emergency state help were slow to respond. The campesinos [poor farmers] were desperate. Will PRI make any difference to the poor in this country? On past records, I personally very very much doubt it. I agree with a lot of the well-informed comments above, the meeting in the Zocalo was somewhere near the million mark. But one thing the reporter totally overlooks and no-one has mentioned so far is the degree of buying and intimidation votes by the PRI. Youtube is full of videos people have