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Article: `La Llorona' becomes the friendly ghost of independent press.(The Dallas Morning News)
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- October 24, 2001
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EL PASO _ Cinco Puntos Press is named after Five Points, a well-known street intersection near the house where Bobby and Lee Byrd live. But the Byrds call their tiny book-publishing company "the house that La Llorona built."
La Llorona, or the Weeping Woman, is a ghost. If you're Hispanic or were a child in the Southwest, you probably know this. Maybe you've even seen her. She wanders the land, wailing, always wailing and searching for her children, whom she killed in a fit of jealousy.
La Llorona (pronounced "yoh-ROH-nah") is the Spanish retelling of the Medea legend. It probably is the best-known folk tale of Hispanic America. The old people have told ...