"I wanted to tell you what happened to my brother and a couple of other neighbors here in Tahíche, at the pilgrimage.
My brother took a shopping cart and covered it with wood. He put his
palm trees on it, painted, very well covered, and so well decorated that it didn't look
like it was a shopping cart.
The day of the pilgrimage arrives and my brother and many other people with carts, super excited to take them on the expected day. As soon as we left, they told us that carts were not allowed, because this would become a pilgrimage only for carts. That was the excuse they gave us and they told us that if the police saw us in the pilgrimage with the carts, they would kick us out of there. They should have warned us in advance and not on the same day and they should have put a note in the festival program, so we wouldn't go through this and know it in advance! In the end, so much effort and so much hope for nothing.
Then they told us to calm us down, with the anger we already had, that for next year we should take a cart that they would give us there and that we would have to rent a donkey to carry the cart.
I'm really disappointed with this year's pilgrimage in terms of what I've told you and the organization and everything else. They also tell us that for the pilgrimages that are going to be held now, including the one in Los Dolores, carts will not be allowed either."
