True Tales from Another Mexico

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Chalino Sanchez was once a migrant worker who became a underground singer of narcocorridos — ballads about drug smugglers – until his murder, which remains unsolved. Then he became a legend.

Two traveling salesmen plied their wares in a sweltering small town. The following day they were hanging from the town’s bandstand lynched by a mob, a thousand strong.

Hailed as a cult classic, True Tales From Some other Mexico  takes us to a colony of drag queens — jotos — preparing for Mexico‘s oldest gay beauty contest.

We see how a bunch of humble rancheros invented the Michoacana popsicle, and a business model that poor people used to grow wealthy.

We follow a Oaxacan Indian basketball team in Los Angeles as its coach fights to restore the purity of his sport, besmirched in America.

Aristeo Prado was once a gunfighter and robber — a valiente seeking to escape his past — when he was once ambushed on a noontime street and died going for his gun.

Telenovelas, once a propaganda vehicle of Mexico‘s one-party state, flourished with political change and touched topics — corruption, drug trafficking and poverty — that once were prohibited.

In Nueva Jerusalen, a theocratic village run by an excommunicated Catholic priest, residents receive voting instructions from the Virgin of Guadalupe.

We enter the Bronx – the rude boys within the PRI wing of Mexico‘s Congress — as they struggle with the meaning of revolt.

Some of these stories are peculiar and exotic. More steadily, though, they’re from mainstream though ignored parts of Mexican life.

True Tales from Some other Mexico are the stories of people whose stories never get told.

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