Commenters who are framing this story in left/right/utopian politics are missing the point and not letting the brutality of the situation sink in enough to supp

Commenters who are framing this story in left/right/utopian politics are missing the point and not letting the brutality of the situation sink in enough to suppress their need to grind philosophical axes. It is a shame that apparently no Mexican HN visitors have come by to set them straight or perhaps they turned away in disgust at all the blather. I am just an ignorant gringo who has been briefly to Michoacan and heard talks by Cheran villagers at a conference, but anyone can see that these are heroic apolitical indigenous people who have invented a functioning government on the fly and under fire. One aspect that I have not seen mentioned outside of the talks I heard (and I am sorry that I could not quickly find a reference) is that early on they realized that choosing corruptible leaders would be fatal, and they came up with an unusual rule requiring that leaders be godparents - (a double filter as it requires unusual trustworthiness to be asked to raise children in the event of parental death and unusual generosity to accept.)