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For five pesos, I could hold the crocodilo. The handler stood in the shadows of Veracruz’s boardwalk. When I asked why he had an alligator, he told me that he worked for a conservation group, though I did not see any hat or the requisite shirt, no flyers or posters—just a young guy, hustling nature on a Sunday night.
I gave the handler some change and he gave me the juvenile crocodilo. Of course, I wanted a picture.
The transfer was awkward. “Hold your phone in your left hand,” the handler …
