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Article: Voices from inside a black snake, Part II: Sonoran roadside capillas.
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- Journal of the Southwest
- Article date:
- September 22, 2006
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On Saturday, May 19, 1999, we were chatting with Padre Guillermo Coronado, parish priest of Ures, Sonora. Padre Coronado remarked that if one encountered an elaborate (and therefore expensive) roadside chapel or shrine containing both the Virgin of Guadalupe and Saint Jude, it was in his opinion likely to have been erected by los narcotraficantes, or those in the drug-running business. This piqued our interest, and we started paying more attention to these common features of Sonoran roadscapes.
Immediately on crossing the border from Arizona into Sonora, Mexico, one is confronted by a wide variety of roadside religious art. Crosses, tiny shrines, chapels, ...