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20 minutes ago - COPY LINK TO DOWNLOAD : https://koencoeng-ygtersakity.blogspot.mx/?lophe=B013EQ6JU6 | PDF/READ True Tales From Another Mexico: The Lynch Mob, the Popsicle Kings, Chalino and the Bronx | A cult classic of a book from Mexico8217s vital margins 8211 stories of drag queens and Oaxacan Indian basketball players, popsicle makers and telenovela stars, migrants, farm workers, a slum boss, and a doomed tough guy.Sam Quinones - one of the great contemporary reporters out of Mexico, the border, and the immigrant diaspora 8211 begins True Tales with the life and death of the godfather of the Narcocorrido, Chalino Sanchez.The book recounts a small-town lynching of two traveling salesmen and how a village of ranchers invented one of Mexico8217s greatest business models 8211 popsicle shops, which are now everywhere part of the country8217s landscape.There8217s the stunning story of Zeus Garcia, a bus boy in Santa Monica and the Michael Jordan of Oaxacan Indian basketball players. And Aristeo Prado, a renegade from a tiny rancho known for poverty and wanton violence.Along the way, Quinones lives with a colony of drag queens in the red-light district of Mazatlan as they prepare for the country8217s oldest gay beauty queen contest. He spends time in Tepito, the Hell8217s Kitchen neighborhood and center of pirated goods in Mexico City. And with soap opera queens, he chronicles how telenovelas reflect the country8217s socio-political change.He attends a Mother8217s Day party put on by La Loba, the ruling-party8217s boss of the Chimalhuacan slum outside Mexico City, attended by 17,000 women, who were entertained by a troop of Chippendale dancers.Those tales and others develop a momentum of amazing storytelling that is rich in surprise, weird turns and, above all, that bursts with the authentic vitality of Mexico.The Economist: 82208230 a tireless reporter, fascinated by the stories that lie behind an ephemeral headline in the Mexican press.8221Tucson Weekly: "... a hell of a storyteller."Los Angeles Times: "...It's hard to choose a favorite tale from this collection, so improbable and delightful are they to read."The Nation: "... a literary manner that tends toward a condensed, almost telegraphic narrative."Amazon readers gave it a stunning 4.8 stars:8220You'd hardly notice that it's all true if it weren't for the fact that these tales are simply too good to be fiction. Quinones has a knack for noticing the seemingly invisible.82218220This book will blow your mind. He has an innate ability to dig up and find the most fascinating stories in the most out-of-the-way places yet also show how they often are a microcosmic reflection of how Mexican society operates.8221 8220It's 13 years since I first read this book and I am still recommending it today for people who are sincerely interested in knowing the back stories of Mexico. 8230 Disneyland has a back lot. If you only want the tourist view, great, spend your money and enjoy! If you want to try to understand a different culture, all of it, here are more parts.8221True Tales From Another Mexico will give you a deeper view of America8217s southern neighbor.<br>
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