Mexican mayor weds a reptile

By Agence France-Presse

Jul 03, 2023 12:11 am

(UPDATE) SAN PEDRO HUAMELULA, Mexico: As onlookers clapped and danced, a mayor of a small southern Mexico town entered into holy matrimony with a female reptile in a traditional rite to bring good fortune to his people.

Victor Hugo Sosa, mayor of San Pedro Huamelula, a town of Indigenous Chontal people in the Tehuantepec isthmus of Mexico, took as his betrothed a reptile named Alicia Adriana, re-enacting an ancestral ritual.

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