In a Holy Week with a rather adverse weather, the rain has not lacked at the last appointment of the traditional processions of the Domingo de Resurrection, in almost all of Spain called El Encuencia, a day in which Donald Trump has also been cast to star in another tradition: Burn Judas, the apostle that betrayed Jesus ..
And this year, international news has sneaked into these customs, as has happened in Alfaro (La Rioja), where a dozen cartoon figures of characters such as the president of the USA, Donald Trump, and the prime minister of Israel, Benjamín Netanyahu, have burned to vindicate freedom and the end of wars.
It has not been the only municipality in Spain that has agreed from Trump to follow that tradition. In Coripe (Sevilla) a figure of a blond doll dressed in a dark jacket suit with a large red tie, which recreated Trump, It has been shooting and burned to follow the tradition of each resurrection Sundaythat of lynching a figure of Judas that represents someone whose action is reprehensible under the criteria of the neighbors.
The figure of Netanyahu in La Rioja
It is a centenary tradition in this Sevillian town, which every Holy Week hangs from a tree, to be shot dead and set fire, a doll that represents a known character that during the last months has stood out for having performed some bad action. In past years, figures such as PUIGDEMONT, AZNAR the Rodrigo Rato.
The people who make him do it jealously keeping the secret of his identity, who only know three in the town, and reveals himself when he reaches the place where he is lynching. On this occasion, the doll The mothers of second students of the CEIP IPO of the town have made it.