Mexico's Grand Warlock predicted US President Barack Obama would fail to win re-election and two more Latin American leaders would be diagnosed with cancer, in a traditional New Year's forecast Tuesday.
The Grand Warlock, or "Brujo Mayor" in Spanish, leads a Mexican tradition of "brujeria" or sorcery centered in the southeastern city of Catemaco.
The Grand Warlock, also known as Antonio Vazquez, said that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who claims to have beaten an unspecified cancer, would have a "terrible relapse." Terrible?
Argentina's President Cristina Kirchner, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, former Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Paraguay's Fernando Lugo have been diagnosed with cancer in recent years.
Chavez suggested last month that the spate of cancer among leftist leaders could be a US plot.
Vazquez, who sports a long grey beard, put the cancer cases down to "witchcraft" against Latin American leaders, during a Mexico City news conference giving his 25th annual predictions.
Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ruled for more than 70 years to 2000, would return to power with its candidate Enrique Pena Nieto winning the presidency in July, according to Vazquez, who bases his predictions on tarot card readings and observations of the stars.
Vazquez, who claims to have a 75-80 percent accuracy rate, last year said the euro would weaken and recession would return to developed economies but he also predicted, incorrectly, that a Latin American leader would be assassinated. OK, so the timing on Chavez's cancer didn't work out perfectly ....
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I wonder if there's a Grand Warlock in Canada. Maybe ant and then I've got a chance to acquire the title--I like it. I may need a wing of moonbat and not sure about eye of Newt...
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Good to see that Charlie Sheen finally landed a job.
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He also predicted that there will not be a world destroying apocalypse in 2012. Which is a pretty safe bet, if you think about it.
He is probably pretty much a joke in Mexico, waving around Tarot cards like that. Their brujo subculture has an ancient history, and lots of specialties, so the assumption would be that he is just using them as props for his schtick.
Way back when, they were a professional class, like doctors and lawyers are in our culture, and attracted people with similar temperaments and abilities, who took what they did seriously.
So think of going to a doctor, complaining of a problem, and after doing some discreet tests and checks, he whips out tarot cards and says that "the cards say" you have a plantar wart in your heel that needs surgery. Just part of the schtick.
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The news stated that a man was going to sue Obama, as he was using a false Name, social security Number and was thereby INELIFIBLE for office.
I love it, win lose or draw this will Put a lot of ghosts to rest.
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Mexico's Grand Warlock predicted US President Barack Obama would fail to win re-election and two more Latin American leaders would be diagnosed with cancer, in a traditional New Year's forecast Tuesday. 
