A Pig's Tale: Pig Named Six Seven Granted Clemency by Miami Dade County Leader.

Although not quite at the identical stature as granting clemency to festive fowl, but the county's top official experienced a ceremonial pardon event this week by ritually sparing the life of a pig named Six Seven.

Daniella Levine Cava executed the holiday gesture at the Cuban-themed Latin Cafe 2000 in the center of Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood.

“This pig is innocent. She is worthy of this pardon. She has committed zero crimes,” declared Levine Cava in a speech with obvious nods to the sheer volume of pardons issued since the onset of a current administration.

“Unless you count eating half a dozen apples per day,” she went on. “May this pig enjoy a prosperous future free from concern.”

The event, either celebrating or rejecting the region’s Hispanic tradition of eating roast pork during the holidays, was founded to emulate the yearly bird sparing at the White House.

The pig, donated by a Coral Gables firefighter, was given its name from the modern linguistic fad of young people exclaiming “6-7” – deriving from a rap song lyric – often without clear purpose. The phrase became so pervasive that a leading lexicon site recently named “six-seven” its 2025 word of the year.

A New Life

Six Seven the pig is now destined to live out its days at a countryside refuge “far from charcoal and roasting pans”, according to the event’s official press release.

“The pig pardon has become one of our favorite ways to open the festive period,” said the cafe owner, in a notably cheerful message.

“It captures the character of Miami: joyful, diverse, and grounded in customs that unite the community. Each year, we are honored to observe heritage and mercy in a way distinctively Miamian.”

Participants enjoyed a vegetarian menu of spinach fritters and strong coffee as they marked the swine's new lease on life.