The Voladores de Papantla are indigenous performers who demonstrate an ancient cultural tradition that is closely associated with the Totonac people from the Papantla area of Veracruz.
According to a report of noticiaspv, the Voladores de Papantla are blaming the SEMARNAT (National Environment and Natural Resources Agency) as the authority responsible for denying them the required permit to keep performing this indigenous ritual, as they were doing for the last 8 years until the New Malecon works started.
Trisanto Méndez Jiménez, spokesman of the Voladores, said that the City of Puerto Vallarta first told them that they were going to be re-located to the area just in front of the Punto V nightclub, but now it seems that the sub-delegate of SEMARNAT, Daniel Alejandro González del Rincón, is not authorizing the return of the Voladores de Papantla to the Malecon, for reasons still unknown.
At the moment, if you visit the Malecon of Puerto Vallarta you might see some of these brave and acrobatic men collecting signatures, trying to make their voice heard and, at least, get to know the reasons of why there is no room for them in the Malecon anymore.
Would you like to see the Voladores the Papantla back in the Malecon? If so, which area of the New Malecon do you think would be the perfect spot for them?
