“Sol Prendido” for Borderland Beat
A chicken was sacrificed, on April 24, 2024, in the facilities of the Senate of the Republic, during a ritual ceremony carried out within the framework of Rain Day, which was promoted by Adolfo Gómez Hernández, legislator from the Morena parliamentary group.
On a terrace on the second floor of the headquarters of the Upper House of the Congress of the Union, dancers with incense burners surrounded the two people who sacrificed the chicken. The first held the bird while a woman cut the animal’s neck with a knife, whose blood fell into a vessel.
“These events were carried out under the strict individual responsibility of Senator Adolfo Gómez Hernández, who justified the action under the protection of the uses and customs of an indigenous group or community to which he expressed his self-assignment,” reported Ana Lilia Rivera Rivera, president of the Senate Board of Directors, in a statement.
“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,” insisted the Morena legislator, who also announced that “Pertinent disciplinary measures will be taken with the responsible senator.”
Interviewed by representatives of various media outlets, the senator from Oaxaca justified his decision to sacrifice the bird, arguing that the second constitutional article indicated that the practices of the native peoples should be respected.
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