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Indigenous people of Chiapas hold ceremony to ask for rain

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Chenalho, Feb 23 (EFE).- Tzotzil indigenous people carried out Sunday a ceremony dedicated to the deity that protects them to grant rain and profitable plantations in the municipality of Chenalho, one of the 122 that makes up the state of Chiapas, in southeastern Mexico.(Camera: MITZI FUENTES)FOOTAGE SHOWS RITUALS CELEBRATED IN CHENALHO, IN THE MEXICAN STATE OF CHIAPAS, SOUTHEAST OF MEXICO BY TZOTZILE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE TO ASK FOR RAIN.

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