Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador raised eyebrows on 25 February by posting a photo to his social media allegedly showing an , a Mexican woodland spirit. His Twitter post, which did not appear to be a joke, read: “I share two photos of our supervision of the Maya Train works: one,; another, by Diego Prieto of a splendid pre-Hispanic sculpture in Ek Balam. Everything is mystical.” The Maya Train works referred to is a railway being built on the Yucatan peninsula, which is a pet project of the President, intended to open the region for tourism. Pronounced “a-shez”, are classic trickster spirits not unlike British brownies or boggarts.
