| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | January 2009 
Mayor Gives Smooching Ban the Kiss-Off
 Metro UK
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A mayor has declared his Mexican city the world's "kissing capital" - in a bid to refute rumours he wanted to fine people for puckering up in public.
Eduardo Romero, leader of Guanajuato in central Mexico, has been forced to put on hold an anti-obscenity law after protests about its supposed anti-kissing stance.
And he has now unveiled huge adverts featuring a couple locking lips on one of the city's winding, cobbled streets - with the slogan: "Guanajuato, the kissing capital".
His authority has denied wanting to ban public kissing, but agreed to suspend the new legislation to review its wording.
A local legend of forbidden love gives the city claim to the "kissing capital" title.
It tells of a young woman whose father banned her from seeing her lover because he was too poor.
But the couple lived across from each other in a street so narrow they could lean out their windows to kiss in secret.
That street remains known as the "kissing alley."
Perhaps appropriately, the name Guanajuato translates in the local indigenous P'urhépecha language as "hill of frogs". |
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