High in a tree sits a creature. She has long white hair and chalky white eyes that stare at the photographer. The photo is black and white, dark and blurred – but according to Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, it is quite clear.
The photo is proof that mythical beings do exist in reality.
López Obrador shared a photo of the creepy creature in a Twitter post. What it means can be seen in the image is an alux, a kind of spirit that appears in the mythology of the Mayan people.
In the post, the president wrote that the photo had been taken three days earlier by an unnamed “engineer” when he was working on a railroad.
López Obrador concludes his letter by writing: “Everything is ambiguous.”
Les comparto dos fotos de nuestra supervizione a las obras del Tren Maya: una, take por un ingeniero hace three dias, al parecer de un aluxe; otra, de Diego Prieto de una espléndida escultura prehispánica en Ek Balam. Todo es mystico. pic.twitter.com/Tr5OP2EqmU
– Andres Manuel (@lopezobrador_)
February 25, 2023
But in fact, the photo was shared much earlier.
At the beginning of February 2021, the newspaper wrote, among other things El Siglo de Durango That people on social media started sharing pictures of what they claimed was a witch in northeastern Mexico. The “witch” photo is the same one shared by the Mexican president.
A persona de nombre Juan Pacheco capto estas imágenes en el municipio de # General Terran las imágenes Rapidamente se han echo virales, hay quienes aseguran se trata de una #proja 👇👇👇😱😱😱😱 pic.twitter.com/t8gWSVkRff
– Johnny Martinez (@Juan Francisco Martinez R:.) (@johnnymtz800)
February 9, 2021
According to a user on Twitter, the photos were taken by a person named Juan Pacheco, but the GP could not verify who actually took the photo or created it.
The Mexican president’s Twitter post received a lot of comments, which ranged from joking to criticism. Lopez Obrador did not comment on the incident afterwards.
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