"We laugh at the very things that hurt us," he said. "It is a very special, very Mexican humor."

  

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An estimated 500 clowns from around Mexico and the rest of Latin America gathered Wednesday at the International Clown Meeting and held a 15-minute laugh-a-thon "to demonstrate their opposition to the generalized violence that prevails in our country."

As hard as it might sound to be a clown in a country so riven by crime and violence, the laughing came naturally, Villanueva said.

"We laugh at the very things that hurt us," he said. "It is a very special, very Mexican humor."