2024-04-26 19:52:51
Under the argument of “usages and customs”, yesterday on the terrace ofl Senate of the Republic A chicken was sacrificed as part of a pre-Hispanic ritual to “venerate” and celebrate the God Tlaloc, associated with rain.
He was the senator of Morena for Oaxaca, Adolfo Gómez Hernándezwho invited a group of people from indigenous peoples to perform dances, burn herbs… and also cut the throat of a chicken and its blood was placed in a container.
Given this, the president of the Senate Board of Directors, Ana Lilia Rivera distanced herself from the sacrifice and said that “the events that occurred were carried out under the strict individual responsibility of Senator Adolfo Gómez Hernández.”
According to Senator Rivera, “the presidency of the Board of Directors had previously communicated to the aforementioned senator the express refusal to authorize the entry of any type of animal into the building, in accordance with the current security and civil protection protocols,” she even said that “measures will be taken disciplinary.”
Interviewed by 24 HOURSthe senator Adolfo Gomez He justified that the sacrifice is part of the “usages and customs” of the native peoples of his state.
The Mixtec senator said that it is a belief of his region to do this type of rituals to satisfy Tlaloc. “In our towns we celebrate our deity, the rain on the 24th and 25th of this month, talking with groups of indigenous peoples, the idea arose to ask for authorization and carry out the offering to our God Tláloc.”
The Morenista said that the ritual was protected, because “the second constitutional article manifests our free right that the practices of the native peoples must be respected, we rely on the second constitutional article.”
In this regard, the coordinator of the senators of Morena, Ricardo Monreal, reported that his party They ordered him not to do the ritual: “In the Morena Parliamentary Group, the majority did not agree and it was not an agreement but a personal decision of the senator,” he declared.
He stressed that “even when it concerns, as he alleges, the customs and practices of his native peoples, he represents the native peoples in Oaxaca, but the majority of Morena have distanced ourselves from this type of acts that may be framed in customs and customs, but that we do not share,” he clarified.
Meanwhile, the Parliamentary Group of Green party He also condemned “the act of sacrificing, for a ritual, a bird on the premises of this House. “Nothing justifies animal abuse,” he noted.
Until now it is unknown what the “disciplinary actions” that the president of the Board of Directors, the Morenista Ana Lilia Rivera, will take against the senator of the same party and bench.
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2024-04-26 19:52:51