It was an article in the May 2010 issue of National Geographic titled “Troubled Spirits” explaining a recent rise in the veneration of some new but decidedly unofficial saints in Mexico that first caused me to ask the question “how much substantive news and information about our national neighbor to the south do non-Spanish speakers in the U.S. receive on a regular basis?” A quick thumb through the periodicals in my reading basket, followed by a more extensive search on the Internet gave me the troubling answer: “not much.”
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