Um novo procurador-geral, no México

Mexico's president, Vicente Fox, sacked his attorney-general after several hundred thousand people took part in a “silent march” of support for Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the mayor of Mexico City, who was facing contempt of court charges which could bar him from standing in a presidential election next year. Mr Fox said a new attorney-general would review the case and seek to preserve “political harmony”.

In The Economist