Sunday, December 28, 2008

December Fools

December 28th is the Día de los Santos Inocentes in Mexico, which has an April fools component to it. The following story appeared on the front page of El Universal:
The president-elect of the United States, Barack Obama, yesterday surprised the Mexican authorities when he made an unscheduled trip to Mexico City, with the intention of ice skating on the rink installed in the Zócalo by the government of Marcelo Ebrard.

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"The president doesn't like Mexico. He'd never been here before, until now. He's a skating lover. He just came for that," the spokesman added. Nevertheless, other sources revealed that Obama regularly travels to Tijuana "in search of Corona beer." "He doesn't want it known. He used to go to Juárez but due to the violence he decided, during the campaign, not to return," added the source.

It also emerged that Barack Obama in effect preferred Juárez to Tijuana. In 2007, it is known, he was arrested for a "suspicious attitude" at a roadblock. He returned to Chicago without his wallet, and embarrassed by the abuse on the Día de los Santos Inocentes. 
I'm not sure I'll ever trust a newspaper here again. 

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