In annual New Year's tradition, Mexico's Warlock predicts increased Islamic State attacks in the United States

Record ID: 163149

  • Title: In annual New Year's tradition, Mexico's Warlock predicts increased Islamic State attacks in the United States
  • Date: 5th January 2017
  • Summary: PHOTO OF TRUMP
  • Embargoed: 20th January 2017 22:30
  • Keywords: Mexico's Grand Warlock Donald Trump assasination attemps terrorist attacks in US death Chapo
  • Location: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
  • City: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
  • Country: Mexico
  • Topics: Human Interest/Brights/Odd News,Society/Social Issues
  • Reuters ID: LVA0045XT1G03
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Mexico's self-proclaimed "Grand Warlock' held a news conference in Mexico City on Thursday (January 5) to present his predictions for 2017 on topics ranging from Islamic State attacks in the United States to Donald Trump and jailed Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
    Antonio Vazquez, known as Mexico's "Brujo Mayor" or "Grand Warlock," said there would be increased terrorist attacks by the Islamic State in the United States. He added there would be a slump in the health of US President-elect Donald Trump in April.
    "The largest number of (terrorist) attacks to take place this year in the world, will be in the United States, for sure, it has already started and we are already in that and will continue. So, something else, around April, we have a decline in Trump's health," Vazquez said.
    Vazquez also predicted there would be two or three assassination attempts on Trump, which would not be successful.
    "I'm not getting he'll be killed this year. But there will be two or three attempts, you'll see. They already helped him out of a problem last year, they're going to look for it, more and more and more and more and they're going to look for that obviously. And forces are coming. Upon entering, he is closing the way to Arabs and the jihadists and everything. They will seek to kill him evidently," Vazquez said.
    Trump is set to be sworn in as president on Jan. 20.
    Lastly, Vazquez predicted fugitive Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, would die in prison.
    "Nothing will happen. He's going to stay there (in prison). But I do understand that Chapo could die in two or three years inside the jail. They won't for any reason let him go," Vazquez said.
    The Warlock has warned that his predictions are not definitive, saying that any of his forecasts could be counter-acted or totally changed with magic spells, prayers or by people taking actions or changing attitudes to prevent them.
    Vazquez has a long history of making predictions, having first been broadcast on television in the 1960s.
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