I’m not really sure what to say, except that sometimes I cannot understand Latinos’ obsession with the chupacabra, or things with the image of Jesus/Guadalulpe on them. Gotta love it, I guess, right?
*Because there's still residue of Halloween in the air; because Chupcabras always make good reading; because why not? VL By Asher Elbein, Texas Observer (8 minute read) The first time Phylis Canion saw the chupacabra, it was slipping through the pastures on her South Central Texas ranch in broad daylight.…
From the textmex obsessed imagination of William A. Nericcio My review of Benjamin Radford's rad book on the Chupacabra for the University of New Mexico Press,Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction, and Folklore has just appeared in the pages of Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Chon Noriega's fine journal…
By Melanie Mendez-Gonzalez, NewsTaco Carlos Alazraqui, voice of El Chupacabra (El Chu) in Disney’s PLANES movie, is a funny and inspiring actor. Via mobile phone, I was able to discuss the upcoming movie, this show-stealing character, and Latinos on the big screen with Alazraqui. Of the summer animation movies I’ve…
If you’ve been reading NewsTaco, then you know that there are some crazy Latino things coming out of that state, the latest of which is a chupacabra discovery. A Kentucky man named Mark Cothran claims to have found a chupacabra in his front yard, killed it, and then talks about it to the local news.
