Ayotzinapa: Where people dance and live-jaguar

 By Oscar Cortes Palma

Normal Raul Isidro Burgos Rural School, better known as Ayotzinapa Rural Normal School is located in the town of Ayotzinapa, in the town of Tixtla (Guerrero, Mexico).

In the municipality of Tixtla is very popular dance called: Tlacololeros, traditional dance that is hunting a dancer dressed Tecuani (jaguar or tiger) you are eating the crops of the villagers.

The location of the normal Ayotzinapa is in Chilpancingo-Chilapa Km. National Road 14. And in both villages.

In Chilpancingo and Chilapa, places close to Ayotzinapa, traditionally danced the dance of the tlacololeros (where a dancer dressed Tecuani or participates Jaguar)

Nearby, a few kilometers north of Ayotzinapa in Acatlan Zitlala and there are also dances on Tecuanes in these villages is traditionally bout Tecuanes (tigers or JAGUARES) for rain to God Tlaloc.

Many more kilometers to the north are more than 90 villages located between the borders of the states of Guerrero, Morelos, Puebla and Mexico, where people dance the dances of the Tecuanes.

Similarly, Southern Ayotzinapa people also dress up Tecuanes (Jaguars), for example in the festivities called "fighting tigers" in Chilpancingo Chilapa, and many more villages.

And many more kilometers south of Ayotzinapa in Tecpan de Galeana is traditionally danced the dance of the tiger, but in those villages will no longer says Tecuane the Jaguar, there is told tiger or Jaguar; likewise in the neighboring villages between the states of Guerrero and Oaxaca, DANCE OF THE TIGER AND TLAMINQUES, which by its nature is similar to the dance of the Tecuanes, dancing although these villages is no longer called "Tecuane" the jaguar, but is usually called TIGER.

Also for this region, jaguar masks are made and many more artistic events related to Jaguar. Animal surianas symbol of these lands.

For all the foregoing that the Ayotzinapa village is located in the territory where people dance and live-jaguar.

JAGUAR, the emblematic animal called Tecuane (Nahuatl word that literally means person or animal that eats, but his usual practical significance is Jaguar, tiger, beast, wolf, bear, animal carnivore, wild animal, etc.

The jaguar is a symbol of art, including traditional dances Suriana that characterizes this region of the world.

To conclude this paper I have to mention that one year of the slaughter of Ayotzinapa, for the present and for the future of Mexico, it is necessary to make a renewal, a revolution in our minds, to restructure Mexico's political and economic system that all lights being ineffective, fickle, impractical, outdated and unable to cope with energy, enthusiasm, intelligence, and commitment with which adversity has to deal the people of Mexico.