The vehicle is called the âPorky-mobile,â a silver all-terrain Mercedes Benz with a huge sky-blue âRâ emblazoned on it. The R stands for Rafael and for Popular Renewal, the political party led by this 60-year-old businessman whose interests include hotels and tourist trains and who is nicknamed after the famous cartoon pig from Looney Tunes, Porky. It is a suggestive moniker for a presidential candidate with links to Opus Dei who has said he is âaddicted to the eucharistâ and who self-flagellates daily with a spiked metal cilice to preserve his celibacy. He has also proclaimed he is âin loveâ with the Virgin Mary, that coronavirus lockdowns are âMarxistâ and that there is a global conspiracy afoot designed to destroy the economy and install a âSocialist paradise.â
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