A woman upset her neighbors by decorating her house in a drug-related style to celebrate Halloween

The Mexican thought it was a good idea to wrap the dolls in black plastic bags and wrap them with grey adhesive tape.

10:57 01/11/2024

A Miami resident originally from Mexico was inspired by Sinaloa to decorate her house for Halloween . To do so, she used dolls that simulated people executed by drug traffickers.

Lizzete Valenzuela thought it was a good idea to wrap the dolls in black plastic bags and wrap them with grey adhesive tape at the head, arms and feet.

One of the bagged bodies, as Mexicans call the executed bodies found in bags on the street or in clandestine graves, was snuck under a tree in front of the woman's house. At another point in the yard, two skulls are carrying another body to put it in a coffin.

One of the bagged bodies was at the foot of a tree (Photo: Facebook)

The decoration became famous on social media, where Valenzuela shared photographs explaining that she is originally from Culiacán, Sinaloa , the same state where Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera was born, and that is why she thought it would be a good Halloween joke to simulate executions.

But his neighbors gave him three days to remove his decorations. Although his post does not clarify whether the ultimatum was because the decorations seemed offensive or excessive, in a recent comment on Facebook he explained that it was for not asking the community's permission to use the green areas.

Days later, she made an update with the modifications she had made to her Halloween decorations, this time with a more identifiable Mexican style and “so that there are no senses we sit down with the bagged one,” she wrote on Facebook.

The woman had to change the decoration because she had not asked permission to use the green areas (Photo: Facebook)

He sat two skulls on wooden chairs on the porch of his house. One of them was dressed as Pancho Villa , one of the leaders of the Mexican Revolution, wearing a hat, bulletproof glasses, a mustache, a machete and an axe. His companion looked like a bandit, with a red bandana on his chest and a scythe in his hand. Both of them rested their feet on piles of straw.

A white blanket stained with blood covered a third skull that lies in front of them on the floor. Another one lies inside a black grave with only its leg and arm showing. The bagged man is sitting next to the skulls.

Some users who felt identified shared their own experiences replicating Mexican culture in the United States. “You can tell when you are from Culiacán. I live in Fort Myers and I had my party with a band, and within five minutes the neighbors had already sent the police to me,” wrote one woman.

Valenzuela clarified that he had not asked permission to put his decoration in that place (Photo: Facebook)

Valenzuela has made the most of her Halloween theme on social media. On Thursday, she told another anecdote about her neighbor, who joined her Sinaloa style . To illustrate, she posted a photo of a skull carrying a bagman while waiting for her partner to finish digging a hole to put it in. The first post has more than 2,000 comments and has been shared 16,000 times.

A woman in Culiacán put up a similar decoration last year in a subdivision in the port of Mazatlán , Sinaloa. She placed bundles shaped like human bodies wrapped in black plastic bags hanging from the ceiling and placed on the floor of the entrance as a welcome to curious neighbors.