(20 Dec 2024)
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Miami – 20 December 2024
1. Zoom out of pigs, Glinda and Elphaba, to be pardoned by Miami-Dade County mayor
2. Close Miami-Dade County mayor feeding pig apple
3. Wide Miami-Dade County Mayor Danielle Levine Cava
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Danielle Levine Cava, Miami-Dade County mayor:
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“I, Danielle Levine Cava, mayor of Miami-Dade County, on behalf of our almost three million residents, grant a full mayoral pardon for our lucky friends, Glinda and Elphaba, and wish them many healthy happy years ahead.”
5. Close of mayoral proclamation
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Castellanos, owner of Latin Café 2000 and host of ceremony:
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"This is our seventh annual pig pardoning ceremony. We actually started this because one year we were looking at the presidential turkey pardon and we… it started as a joke that we don’t really do turkey here in Miami. It’s more lechon and pig. So we looked at each other and said: ‘someone should do this.’
7. Close of pig pardoning ceremony sign
8. Pan pig
9. Close café sign
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Castellanos, owner of Latin Café 2000 and host of ceremony:
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"Every year we pardon pigs. The mayor comes and we do it with her and she actually pardons the pigs, gives them a pardon proclamation, and they live out their lives in a farm."
11. Wide pigs pen
12. Pig coming up to photo camera
STORYLINE:
As the stars of Friday’s show in downtown Miami, baby pigs Glinda and Elphaba won’t have to worry about gracing the dinner table at a Cuban American family’s home this Christmas Eve.
Public pardons to the two pigs were granted by the mayor of Miami-Dade County, Daniella Levine Cava, a seven-year South Florida riff on the White House tradition of pardoning two turkeys at Thanksgiving.
The 4-month-old pigs, named after the good and wicked witches in the musical “Wicked,” will live out their expected 12 to 15 years at an animal sanctuary south of Miami.
Glinda and Elphaba didn’t seem too interested in the ceremony and crowd surrounding their makeshift pen outside the Latin Cafe 2000, the restaurant that created and sponsors the event.
The tan-and-black pair, about the size of pudgy beagles, hogged down apple and orange slices when offered. Otherwise, they seemed determined to find some way to nibble on the plastic grass lining their enclosure.
If not for the pardons, they could have joined the thousands of their kind that will be barbecued whole Tuesday in underground pits, on spits or in special metal boxes by Cuban families on the island, throughout Miami and elsewhere. They will become the “lechon asado” served during Nochebuena dinners.
“The holidays are definitely the favorite part of the year for me and for so many. It’s a time of gratitude. A time when we reunite with our families and our loved ones. And of course, good food, right? So important, but not a very good time to be a pig in Miami,” Levine Cava joked as she presented the proclamation giving Glinda and Elphaba permanent amnesty from barbecues.
Eric Castellanos, the Latin Cafe 2000’s owner, said the event started out as a joke among staff after seeing a news story about the presidential Thanksgiving pardon, “because we really don’t eat turkey here in Miami. We eat pork."
“So we looked at each other and said, ‘Hey, someone should do this’,” Castellanos said.
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