The singing, hijacking pastor– and Mexico’s relief
Yesterday’s hijacking crisis in Mexico ended in farce. In truth, that’s a relief for all Mexicans. Their vital tourism industry was already stung by the H1N1 virus earlier this year. If the hijacker of the Aeroméxico flight had been a narco, recalling the violent heyday of Pablo Escobar in Colombia, Mexico would have seen its tourism plummet and the effectiveness of its drug war beset by even more questions.
Instead, the hijacker turned out to be a musically inclined and deranged evangelical pastor, who worried 9/09/09, yesterday’s date, signaled the apocalypse. The reason? Yesterday’s date 9/9/09, could be read as 666– turned upside down. The Bolivia-born José Mar Flores Pereyra, who is married with three children, ran a small Christian church just outside Mexico City. Supposedly, his intent was to hijack the plane as a way to warn President Calderón of the impending danger. According to newspaper Universal, his wife Elsa Vergara apologized to Mexican President Felipe Calderón. “My husband suffers from mental disturbances,” she said.
His “bomb” turned out to be two cans of fruit juice fringed with light bulbs.
Here’s a video, from YouTube, created by yesterday’s hijacker, who wouldn’t stop smiling, even when flanked by two Mexican paramilitary officers in face masks, escorting him on his media-friendly perp walk. Enjoy–
P.S.
Since the first video is mostly audio, I’m also posting the following action-packed clip recommended by True/Slant’s Mary Cuddehe. The pastor performs many stunts to validate his claims to a gun-toting past in Bolivia (presumably before he was born again):
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Exactly. The moment tourists become the targets of narcos, Mexico will be in serious trouble.
Here’s another video of Flores, this time showing off his skills with nunchakus and a pistol: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejhUlZ6jZPQ&feature=player_embedded
This is why when we start to reach the Aztec calendar dates of catastrophe in 2012, things are going to go batty. I highly enjoy the video of him playing with his gun and nunchakas. Thank god this ended peacefully.
Mary – thanks for the video, it’s really something.
There’s something about some Latin American pastors, they really have a talent and proclivity for kitsch.
And I also felt like this may have been an early blip on the 2012 batty graph.
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