Nahua Indigenous women weave strips of dried palm leaves into braids February 9 in the...

Nahua Indigenous women weave strips of dried palm leaves into braids February 9 in the thousand-strong village of Zizicazapa, in Mexico's southern Guerrero state, two days after elections were held for governor. The women get paid one peso (ten U.S. cents) for every 30 metres of braid, equivalent to half a day's work. [The ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) candidate Rene Juarez took a narrow lead in preliminary results, which leftist challenger Felix Salgado of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) was due to vote buying in poor villages like Zizicazapa. ]