MEXICO CITY — Huichol native mobs in Mexico’s Jalisco state have driven Christians from their homes and threatened to burn them to death, according to news reports.
The first wave of 70 Huichol refugees from the village of Agua Fria, near Mezquitic, fled on foot across the state border into Tepic, Nayarit, beginning Aug. 14. The total number of refugees was expected to reach more than 300.
Most arrived ill from the 20-hour walk. Town leaders insisted that if the Huichol Christians wish to return to Agua Fria, they must renounce their faith and return to native traditions and rites — such as drinking liquor and using hallucinatory peyote — which are practiced there alongside Roman Catholic customs.
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