DUCK STRANGLING FESTIVA, MEXICO

Target: Rolando Zapata Bello, Governor of Yucatan
Goal: End festival in which ducks are strangled and other animals beaten to death.
Every year in a small city in Mexico, the Kots Kaal Pato festival occurs. Kots Kaal Pato roughly translates into “strangle the duck.” In Citilcum, a city in Izamel, Yucatan, festivalgoers bind a duck to a wooden frame and then proceed to stamp over each other to try to rip off the bird’s head.