Twinning with US cities
Communities
City Of North Las Vegas, in the state of Nevada, and several cities in California would be twinned to at least eight municipalities in Yucatán when this Tuesday, the 16th, in Tekax, the “Twinning of Mayan towns in the southern state of Yucatán” is announced. USA ”, anticipated Sara Zapata Mijares, president of the Mundo Maya Foundation of the city of Los Angeles.
This is a significant event through which a rapprochement between the peoples of Yucatán and the cities of the United States would be fostered, which would initially generate a closer dynamic of cultural, tourist and commercial exchange.
The funny thing is that all this has been possible, to a large extent, thanks to the interest that there is in Nevada and California for the traditional Mayan ball game, since only in those two states there are six teams that practice it with all that that implies. , from the ritual and the rules to the outfits and the same type of ball, according to Sara Zapata, who is Yucatecan and leads the representation of Yucatecan migrants in Los Angeles, California.
As he explained, there is the Mesoamerican Ball Game Association and the Ball Game Association in the USA and Canada, headed by Armando Osorio Uscanga and Marco Chávez, respectively, who have extensive knowledge of this cultural, religious and sporting expression.
They have known how to permeate the interest of the ball game among the American community, to such a degree that now the possibility of strengthening the ties between these cities and the municipalities of Yucatán is opening up to continue spreading the art, culture and tradition of the Mayan people. . There are six teams that practice it in Nevada and California.— Emanuel Rincón Becerra
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