A crowd of around 80 people has set upon a statue of Mexico's conservative ex-president Vicente Fox and pulled it down just after it was put up.
Protestors linked to the former ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) attached a rope to the neck of the 3m tall bronze statue in Boca del Rio in the eastern state of Veracruz and tugged it down.
In 2000 Mr Fox, a member of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), became the first opposition candidate to win the presidency from the PRI, which had been in power for 71 years.
The idea to honour him with a statue came from the town's mayor, a member of the PAN who a year ago named a street after President Fox.
