Raise your hand if you think a campaign commercial showing a nervous prisoner wetting his pants would be likely to sway your vote. Yeah, me neither. Anyway, the pants-wetting, voodoo, a dancing pharmacist and more are all elements of the current presidential campain in Mexico. Welcome to a truly wacky election. Here’s our story, by Catherine Bremer:

A saleswoman holds up a doll of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, presidential candidate for Mexico’s left-wing Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), in Mexico City May 26, 2006. REUTERS/Daniel Aguilar

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Viva el Colonel Sanders!
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