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Article: La Llorona.(Excerpt)(Fiction)
- Article from:
- The Literary Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 1999
- Author:
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This rendition of the mythic tale of La Llorona takes place in Ciudad Juarez.
She was, as everyone knows, a betrayed woman. After her husband left her without a single centavo, La Llorona and her three children tried to cross the border to the United States. She sold all her belongings in the town not far from Chetumal, the capital of Quintana Roo, where poverty reigns. A distant relative in Arizona (a nephew of her stepfather), to whom she had sent a desperate word, replied several months later saying he wasn't wealthy enough to provide her with the tickets but if she moved to el otro lado, the other side, he knew of a ninera always helpful to Mexican immigrants ...