Weekly Report - 10 January 2006

The Zapatista leader 'Marcos', who now insists on being called 'Delegate Zero', may end up providing the only colour in what is unfolding as an uninspiring presidential campaign. As frontrunner Andrés Manuel López Obrador seeks to win over the middle classes and businessmen, and runner-up Felipe Calderón struggles to find a way of conveying how he might improve on Vicente Fox's performance, Marcos/Zero has set out on a tour of the country to advocate a boycott of the elections.