In a booklet published by Mexico’s Federal Electoral Tribunal, the researcher David Recondo describes community assemblies in Chiapas, drawing on Lenkersdorf’s work among the Tojolabal. The assemblies “pueden durar horas y horas” (can last hours and hours). “Luego de varias horas de discusiones, las voces acaban por extinguirse una a una” (After several hours of discussion, the voices die out one by one). Then the authority announces the decision.
The same text notes that in Oaxaca, assembly practices today depart from the logic of consensus.