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The Governor of Ocotlán Silvia Villarruel Resigns After Controversy by Spider Monkey
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Well they say that what happens in our country surpasses the AI... and that is that a week ago, the governor of Ocotlán, Jalisco, Silvia Iliana Villarruel, was caught loading and zaping a spider monkey. Now, after becoming viral, the official accepted her “error and announced her resignation, besides ensuring that the changuito was not of his property and that nomas borrowed it. Regidor with spider monkey // Photo: social networks (screen captur…
The governor of Ocotlán, Silvia Iliana Villarruel Gutierrez, announced her separation from office on Friday, February 13, 2026, following the complaint filed by environmental authorities for the possession and interaction with a spider monkey, a protected species. In a statement broadcast on social networks, the official acknowledged the error of interacting with the wildlife specimen and insisted that it is not her property.
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