Some Mexicans have found a way to blow off steam over Donald Trump - creating an effigy of the White House hopeful to burn in an Easter ritual.
It took Felipe Linares a week to make his more-than-two-metre-tall papier-mache likeness of Trump wearing a blue suit, white shirt and red tie in his Mexico City workshop.
The smiling figure will go up in flames on Saturday during the “Burning of Judas”, a tradition in which Mexicans torch effigies of the devil, politicians and others they dislike on the eve of Easter Sunday.
Felipe Linares arranges his Trump effigy at his workshop in Mexico City. Photo: AFP
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“We are going to burn Trump now because we don’t like him. He speaks ill of Mexicans,” Linares said, referring to the real estate tycoon’s description of Mexican migrants as criminals and rapists.
He attached fireworks to the figure’s feet to add noise to the pyrotechnics.
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Linares has been making effigies for more than 50 years at a workshop founded by his father in the early 20th century.
