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The anger felt by Mexicans for the past few weeks over the skyrocketing price of tortillas reached a boiling point yesterday, when over 75,000 people took to the streets in Mexico City to demand that the government do something about the crisis:

During Wednesday’s march, protesters carried one banner that read “Calderon stole the elections, and now he’s stealing the tortillas!” Others waved handfuls of the flat corn disks and chanted “Tortillas si, Pan no!” a play on the initials of Calderon’s National Action Party, the PAN, which also means “bread” in Spanish.

In a press statement, Calderon’s office said the president shares the protesters’ concerns and pledged to “continue taking all necessary actions to maintain price stability for basic goods and services, (and) punish all types of hoarding and speculation in the markets.”

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