Mexican Warlock Makes 2007 Predictions
 Theresa Braine - Associated Press
| | Antonio Vazquez, Mexico's self-proclaimed "Grand Warlock" or "Brujo Mayor" speaks to members of the press during a news conference to announce his predictions for 2007 in Mexico City, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2007. The "Brujo Mayor" has made predictions since 1980 on events ranging from politics and the economy to sports and the private lives of celebrities. (AP/Eduardo Verdugo) |
Fidel Castro will be dead by May. Losing presidential candidate-turned-protest leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will fade into obscurity. The anti-immigration wall between the United States and Mexico will not get built. And global warming will force everyone to unite.
These were just some of more than a dozen predictions Mexico's self-proclaimed "Grand Warlock" issued Wednesday for 2007, which he called "the year of the woman."
El Brujo Mayor, aka Antonio Vazquez, has been making predictions since 1980 on events ranging from Mexican politics to international events, the economy, sports and the private lives of celebrities.
The year 2007 "has a very special characteristic," the prognosticator told reporters. "The year is 100 percent feminine."
In 2007, he said, women will be at the forefront of politics worldwide, including Europe, where a woman will become a prominent leader, and in the U.S., where Hillary Clinton is widely expected to seek the Democratic party's presidential nomination. Women also will figure more prominently in the art world, he said, adding, "But don't be afraid."
Reading from Mayan tarot cards, the warlock expanded on his feminine theme, warning that the human race needs to honor Mother Earth in the midst of dangerous global warming.
"We must join hands and unite, please!" he said, his tufted brow furrowed and his flowing salt-and-pepper beard partially obscuring an orange witch stenciled on a black T-shirt.
Regarding immigration, "they are not going to build the wall of shame," Vazquez predicted of the fence that the United States recently approved along its 3,220-kilometer (2,000-mile) southern border.
The 80-year-old Castro, who temporarily stepped aside five months ago following emergency surgery for intestinal bleeding, will die before May, Vazquez predicted. His brother, Raul, will open up the island so that it will be closer to the United States. Eventually, even the casinos will be back.
In general, Vazquez said, the world in 2007 will be a better place, with developed nations truly helping smaller ones with "many international investments."
Mexico will attract a lot of investment, reap a robust harvest, and enjoy stable oil prices, while Mexico's petroleum production will increase substantially, he said, contradicting the predictions of government officials, who have warned of depleting oil reserves.
"We will have many sources of work," Vazquez said, but warned that Mexicans have a responsibility, too: "If Mexicans want a new Mexico, they have to pay their taxes."
Lopez Obrador, whose slim loss to Felipe Calderon ignited massive protests, will lose many of the supporters who once worked for him, Vazquez said. But the former presidential candidate, who has refused to accept Calderon's victory, also will start to heed the opinions of others.
Meanwhile the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ruled Mexico for 71 years before its 2000 ouster by Vicente Fox, will ally itself with the ruling National Action Party, or PAN. In short, "The political war will freeze," he said.
Last year Vazquez accurately predicted that the PAN would again win Mexico's presidency, but he also said Germany would win the World Cup.
The championship went to Italy. |
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