He's really built a national social movement. Fox has been a great campaign manager for him.

I think it's a step forward. It's not the kind of progress that we would like to have; something dramatic and to see the breakdown of an old regime and the beginning of a new one. This is something in between.

The PRI is going to have a tremendous identity crisis. It's an internal cataclysm for them.

A frantic response by bureaucrats who felt the (student) movement was threatening their grip on power.

I think it's a step forward,

[Several analysts also said the episode had greatly increased Lopez Obrador's chances of winning the presidency by expanding his support beyond Mexico City.] He's really built a national social movement, ... Fox has been a great campaign manager for him.