Acteal Polling

Excélsior pollster BGC asked Mexicans about their reaction to Supreme Court direction to the PGR to release the 40 Chiapas residents who'd been erroneously jailed for eleven years following a massacre in Acteal, Chiapas. Oddly, while 65 percent of respondents labeled the ruling a good thing, 72 percent said it was only a minor event, because those responsible for the massacre are still free. Another 69 percent expressed little or no confidence that the Supreme Court's ruling will help prevent future massacres. The finding did result in a spike in esteem for the Court itself; only 13 percent expressed a negative opinion of the institution, compared to 20 percent in February.