Earlier this week, Mexico’s election board nixed some campaign ads from the conservative PAN party as too fear-mongering, for their warnings about the danger of electing leftist PRD candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador president of Mexico. Election day is July 2 in Mexico.

The ads compared Lopez Obrador to Hugo Chavez, with big pictures of Chavez, Fidel Castro and Evo Morales, warning of the danger of populism.

The ads were nixed from government-regulated television, but they’ve since gotten out onto the Internet, via YouTubes, and now everyone can look at them, and see for themselves. Miguel has found the links here.

Here a link to the famous ‘chachalaca’ ad, where the PAN placed side-by-side footage clips of Lopez Obrador and Chavez, both yelling about President Fox, and looking intolerant.

UPDATE: The New York Times has an excellent essay by Enrique Krauze warning of the dangers of an AMLO presidency to Mexico’s fragile democracy. Read it here.

Hat tip: RealClearPolitics

UPDATE: Here is a good article from the Washington Post about the use of Chavez’s imagery as a scare tactic in the Mexican campaign. The last part of the article, on AMLO’s response to the Chavez-image attack ads is delightfully funny. Read it here.