Mr. Cohill, it is a bitter thing indeed... to learn an officer who's had nine years' experience... the officer to whom I'm yielding command of the troop in two days... should have so little grasp of leadership... as to allow himself to be chivvied into a go at fisticuffs... while taps still sounds over a brave man's grave.

Felipe Calderón has taken the oath of office, braving the wrath of his left wing opposition, out smarting the Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) and its leader, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, but nonetheless paying a high price. Every TV news show and front page headline in the world ran the same headline New Mexican President inaugurated in chaos and fisticuffs.