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每日英語跟讀 Ep.K450: About Mexico - 墨西哥市長和鱷魚結婚與找人也消失 In age-old ritual, Mexican mayor weds alligator to secure abundance

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每日英語跟讀 Ep.K450: About Mexico - In age-old ritual, Mexican mayor weds alligator to secure abundance

A small town Mexican mayor married his alligator bride in a colorful ceremony as traditional music rang out and revelers danced while imploring the indigenous leader to seal the nuptials with a kiss.

墨西哥一個小鎮市長在一場多采多姿的儀式中,迎娶了他的鱷魚新娘,現場演奏傳統音樂、狂歡者翩翩起舞,同時懇求這位原住民領袖用一個吻來為婚禮封印。

San Pedro Huamelula Mayor Victor Hugo Sosa obliged more than once during Thursday’s wedding, bending down to plant his lips on the small alligator’s snout, which had been tied shut presumably to avoid unwanted biting.

在週四的婚禮上,聖.佩德羅.瓦米魯拉的市長維克多.雨果.索薩不只一次答應要求,彎腰把嘴唇湊上這隻小鱷魚的鼻子,而小鱷魚的鼻子被緊緊綁住,大概是為了避免不必要的咬傷。

The ritual marriage likely dates back centuries to pre-Hispanic times among Oaxaca state’s Chontal and Huave indigenous communities, like a prayer pleading for nature’s bounty.

在墨西哥瓦哈卡州Chontal及Huave的原住民社會中,這種婚禮儀式就像是一個祈禱,祈求大自然的恩賜,可能可以追溯好幾個世紀,一直到前西班牙時代。

Oaxaca, located in Mexico’s poor south, is arguably the country’s richest in indigenous culture and home to many groups that have stubbornly maintained their languages and traditions.

瓦哈卡州位在墨西哥貧窮的南部地區,可說是墨國原住民文化最豐富的地區,也是許多堅持維護他們的語言和傳統的群體的家鄉。

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In Mexico, those searching for missing relatives can vanish too 在墨西哥,尋找失蹤親友的人也會跟著消失

70-years-old Maria Herrera is scraping at the earth on a hill in the town of Huitzuco, in southern Mexico, looking for the mounds that indicate a decaying corpse.

70歲的瑪莉亞.赫雷拉在墨西哥南部威特蘇科鎮的山上四處挖掘,希望找到代表埋有腐爛屍體的土堆。

Digging in the dirt with a group of 100 other activists in the violent state of Guerrero, she wants to find her four missing son.

在暴力事件頻傳的格雷羅州,赫雷拉與100名行動人士一起挖土,想要找到4名失蹤的兒子。

More than 40,000 people are missing in Mexico, which has been swept by a wave of violence since the government declared war on the country’s powerful drug cartels in 2006.

2006年,墨西哥政府向勢力龐大的販毒集團宣戰後,這個國家就被暴力事件肆虐,目前已有逾4萬人失蹤。

At first, Herrera and her husband used the profits gained by selling household goods door to door to launch gold exchange business, which involved traveling the country to buy and sell gold.

起初,赫雷拉和丈夫用挨家挨戶賣居家用品的收入,展開黃金兌換生意,包括全國走透透買賣黃金。

They did not realize a bloody cartel turf war was just breaking out in the state. They believe a local cartel mistook the brothers, Jesus and Raul, for members of a rival group and were captured. Two more brothers started looking for them but disappeared too.

但他們沒料到,一場腥風血雨的毒梟地盤之爭已在國內爆發。他們相信,自家兒子赫塞斯和羅爾,是被一個地方販毒集團誤認為敵營的人,才被俘虜。另外2名兒子開始尋找兩人後,也下落不明。Source article: https://features.ltn.com.tw/english/article/paper/1539233 ; https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/world/paper/1292410