Anonymous ID: 3d789a Sept. 12, 2024, 3:12 p.m. No.21579126   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>9135 >>9147

"After several minutes of rhythmic dancing to pounding drums, the spirits arrived, seizing a woman and a man. The man proceeded to rub a burning torch all over his body and walk on hot coals without being burned. The woman, in a frenzy, screamed repeatedly, then grabbed a live chicken and bit its head off. Then the spirits left and those who had been possessed fell to the ground."

Anonymous ID: 3d789a Sept. 12, 2024, 3:13 p.m. No.21579135   🗄️.is đź”—kun

>>21579126

Bill Clinton wrote that "the most interesting day of the trip" came when he, Hillary and Edwards got a chance to see voodoo in practice in a village near Port-au-Prince. The priest was Max Beauvoir, a former chemical engineer who had studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. Beauvoir had abandoned that career when his voodoo-priest grandfather died and named him as his successor.

Beauvoir gave the three visitors what Clinton described as a "brief course in voodoo theology."

Clinton wrote that his "brief foray into the world of voodoo" furthered his fascination with "the way different cultures try to make sense of life, nature, and the virtually universal belief that there is a nonphysical spirit force at work in the world."

Anonymous ID: 3d789a Sept. 12, 2024, 4:17 p.m. No.21579681   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>9686 >>9693 >>9702

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/09/world/americas/el-salvador-helicopter-crash-police.html

El Salvador’s Police Chief Dies in Helicopter Crash

Mauricio Arriaza Chicas led the nation’s police force during a crackdown on gang violence. The president expressed doubt that the crash had been an accident.

The chief of El Salvador’s national police, who played a key role in the government’s campaign to jail thousands of people as part of a crackdown on gang violence, has died in a helicopter crash, the authorities said early Monday.

A Salvadoran Air Force helicopter carrying the police chief, Mauricio Arriaza Chicas, crashed in an eastern region of the country near the border with Honduras, according to the Salvadoran military. Everyone on board died, it said.

The passengers on the helicopter included Manuel Coto, the former head of a credit union, the military said. Mr. Coto, who was arrested in Honduras over the weekend, has been accused of money laundering in El Salvador. Mr. Coto was being transported back to El Salvador.

Mr. Arriaza Chicas served as police chief under President Nayib Bukele, a popular leader who easily won re-election in February on the strength of a contentious crackdown on gangs.

On Monday, Mr. Bukele said on social media that the helicopter crash could not be considered a mere “accident,” though he provided no evidence of foul play. He said his government would ask for international help with an investigation.

“Director Arriaza Chicas was a fundamental piece in bringing peace and security to our people,” Mr. Bukele wrote.

El Salvador, the smallest country in Central America, once had one of the world’s highest homicide rates outside of a war zone. That changed after Mr. Bukele swept to power in a 2019 election and declared a state of emergency to quell gang violence.

The campaign against violence produced a crackdown on civil liberties. Mr. Bukele’s government has jailed thousands of innocent people, suspended key civil liberties indefinitely and flooded the streets with soldiers. The advocacy group Human Rights Watch said in a 2022 report that he was “responsible for widespread human rights violations during the state of emergency.”