Chupacabras Essay

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CHUPACABRAS

Mexico. 1996. In a small municipality in the Sierra de Puebla, the mysterious death of at least 30 sheep was reported. Involved with the search for information, Televisa's state newscast covered the story through a group of reporters. The staff arrived on time to observe a victim still alive, who was sacrificed. Dr. Soledad de la Peña, arrived at the place and performed an autopsy live and live for television. The drama was accentuated while the doctor's gloves remained white, while affirming that the animal had no blood. Although a dead animal can not bleed because its torrent has already coagulated, it does not stop redding everything within reach, which is why speculation grew about whether the use of the perspective favored the false autopsy. The news impacted the audience, who immediately referred to a mysterious monster that hit the Puerto Rican farms a year ago; a
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Alfredo Adame, conductor of 'Viva la Mañana', received in the studio the 'ufologist' Jaime Maussán, a man destined to become part of the Mexican idiosyncrasy of the decade. Maussán spoke of the Chupacabras and described the case of José Angel Pulido, a trailero originally from Tlatomulco, Jalisco, who claimed to have been attacked on May 2, 1996, by a strange being of 60 centimeters in height and a gelatinous body. The man was heading to his trailer, a few streets from his house, when an animal jumped the fence of a nearby pen and attacked him. In defense of his life, Pulido hit the animal until he managed to get away, but he remembers the softness of his body and the intense smell of swamp. Arriving at his home and being questioned by his family about the smell, the man went to a hospital, where an alleged doctor Mario Rivas assured him that his wounds were similar to those of the famous