Showing posts with label San Luis Potosí. Show all posts
Showing posts with label San Luis Potosí. Show all posts

Sunday, October 16, 2011

If we don't get a bishop, we change religion:

Interesting religious dynamics in San Luis Potosí: An entire people changes religion following miserable customer service from the catholic church.

The Pames / Xi'iuy are an indigenous people found in  San Luis Potosí, among the very few surviving in the state. They make up around 3 percent of its population. Following multiple complaints and petitions to the catholic church to send them a priest or bishop, which were all apparently ignored, the Pames decided to simply change their religion toward a denomination that was indeed willing to send a religious minister to their area: The Anglicans.

They lined up to get baptized, and celebrated their new religion as it should be, with a party and dances.

From La Jornada

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

How to deal with criticism if you're governor of San Luis Potosí

On his way to an event honoring teachers, Governor Fernando Toranzo of San Luis Potosí passed a teacher who told him, "Hola, señor corrupción."

The PRI governor's response? He punched him in the face.

When the teacher tried to fight back, he was blocked by the governor's bodyguards.

My response: Pinche cobarde.