The San Pedro Huamelula: In a customary ceremony meant to bring prosperity to his people, the mayor of a tiny town in southern Mexico wed a female lizard while bystanders cheered and danced. In reenacting an ancestral tradition, Victor Hugo Sosa, the mayor of San Pedro Huamelula, a village of Indigenous Chontal people in the Tehuantepec isthmus of Mexico, chose Alicia Adriana, a lizard, as his bride. The reptile is a caiman, a marsh creature that is native to Mexico and Central America and resembles an alligator. Marriage between a man and a female caiman has happened here for 230 years to commemorate the day when two Indigenous groups came to peace – with a marriage. Tradition has it that frictions were overcome when a Chontal king, embodied these days by the mayor, wedded a princess girl of the Huave Indigenous group, represented by the female alligator. The Huave live along coastal Oaxaca state, not far from this inland town.