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And now it's time to witness history on the BBC World Service with me

Maria Lena Nawa's. Today we are going back to 1991 and the story of how a

rumor about Mirac miraculous healing waters in a small village in

central Mexico spread across north and south America.

It all started in a village called Tla Kote in the state of Keretaro, around 200 kilometers northwest of Mexico City.

When the boya Klacote, city.

When I arrived in Clacote and I realized the size of the problem, I was really alarmed.

Really alarmed. There was a large crowd of people and dozens of buses arriving from all over the country.

The public...

The Edmonde Gonzalez Jaka was an official of the Ministry of Urban Development and Environment in the State of Keretaro.

It was 1991, and like many other Mexicans, he had also heard about the so-called miracle water of Tla Kote.

One of my co-workers Elliot Baron was a believer in all sorts of magical and

miraculous things and one day he told me he was drinking

miracle water. I really didn't pay much attention but he told me the water was from

Clacote and that he was friends with the owner of the Hacienda where the miracle well was located, a man

named Hesseus Chain.

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