Jorge Santini, Mayor Of San Juan, Baffles Public With Astoundingly Strange Christmas Photo

Nothing says Christmas quite like a stuffed leopard murdering a fear-stricken antelope. Err... wait, how did we miss that part of the Bible?

Mayor Jorge Santini of San Juan, Puerto Rico landed himself a spot in the famed Awkward Family Photo blog with his 2011 Christmas picture which depicts his family huddling around a taxidermied killing scene. As a leopard sinks its teeth into a poor creature’s throat, a little girl strikes a very sassy pose.

The caption under the astoundingly strange photo is equally as puzzling:

“May this Christmas illuminate your dreams,” the caption loosely translates into English. We’re not quite sure what the mayor’s dream is, but the hunt scene was chosen to embody the mayor's holiday spirits over a few other creepy options -- including an unconvincing penguin figure staring into a young man's ear in an frosty wonderland and a giant bird swooping over the Mayor’s head as a black bear poses nearby.

While some political rivals have interpreted the picture as Santini’s understated warning for opponents in the upcoming election, the mayor insists that he was promoting the San Juan Wildlife Museum.

Whatever Santini's motivations may be, here at HuffPost LatinoVoices, we wish you a holiday filled with sassy seven-year-olds and taxidermied jungle cats.

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CORRECTION: A prior version of this article translated the Spanish caption in Santini's Christmas card as, "That you may illuminate your dream this Christmas." The text has been updated to reflect a more apt translation: "May this Christmas illuminate your dreams."

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Comments

[BrandyWine25]

10:59 AM on 12/29/2011

This belongs on Awkward Family Photos.

[storm14k]

09:45 AM on 12/20/2011

Late to the party here but I don't see the point in saying "a leopard sinkts its teeth into a poor creatures throat". If the leopard didn't eat would we then talk about the poor starving leopard. Seems like people are beginning to even hate the food chain because there are dominant roles.

[Latinlawyer]

02:07 PM on 12/25/2011

You seem to want to look past the fact that the photo includes an image of the killing of one animal by another in a Christmas family photo! Christmas! which is supposed to represent the birth of Jesus Christ of love and peace and goodwill to all mankind. What does the image of killing have to do with Christmas? Not much. But it seems to me that you are either a political supporter of this nutty Mayor Santini or and avid hunter or meat eater that you fail to see the disconnection between the killing image an the Spirit of Christmas.

[mcq721]

06:02 PM on 12/29/2011

The spirit of christmas is greed...lets stop pretending!!

[Andre Fabre]

07:15 AM on 12/18/2011

The picture shows how messed up is Mr. Santini, as well as the rest of the party he belongs to.

[elmacar]

06:48 PM on 12/16/2011

Wouldn't you just love to know what that penguin is whispering in the boy's ear. Maybe some like, "put me on the tele".

[Rosa Casillas]

08:05 PM on 12/15/2011

I hate the christmas card from Santinini, I hope PETA , see this astrocity and fine him very big..THAT DISGUSTING .....................................

[sarsipius1979]

01:18 PM on 12/16/2011

PETA doesn't have the authority to "fine" anyone for anything. So that won't be happening.

[free of speech]

10:10 PM on 12/20/2011

PETA = People Eating Tasty Animals, no fine there just good food!!

[WhatDaBleep]

01:27 PM on 12/15/2011

Does he thing they're the Addams Family or something?

[nicky2148]

01:00 PM on 12/15/2011

This is how the mayor utilizes the money of the taxpayers and makes his family a ridicule of everyone. He thinks he is funny but the truth is that beside being corrupt and inhumane , he is a person with a very poor ethic of what it is sensible and correct even dealing with animals.

[librldem]

10:14 AM on 12/15/2011

Are these people somehow related to the Palin's?

[retpo96]

10:12 AM on 12/15/2011

A huge mistake at a studio.....BFD!.. Ever watch the Hunting Channel ? How those "So" brave hunters bring down wild life and then pose.

[theshortladders]

10:00 AM on 12/15/2011

I think the little girl is actually stuffed.

[sillyfrog]

10:13 AM on 12/15/2011

Maybe she has been on the baby beauty pageant show.

[danlounyc]

09:55 AM on 12/15/2011

If I lived in his town, I would start a recall procedure. This shows no sense of right, wrong, propriety or anything else.

[georgiecat]

09:53 AM on 12/15/2011

That is freakishly bizarre.

[u4riah]

09:29 AM on 12/15/2011

Is this just some new acquisition of the mayor's that he wants to show off? Reindeer comes to mind as a better prop -- plastic reindeer.

[Mort Adela]

07:59 AM on 12/15/2011

"an unconvincing penguin figure staring into a young man's ear in an frosty wonderland". Nothing says Merry Christmas quite like that does!

[me again]

07:42 AM on 12/15/2011

Peace on earth and good will towards men......

[Auntydee]

08:51 AM on 12/15/2011

.....and endangered animals.