“I feel the main query to be thought of in all of that is the why,” Edward Salazar, researcher, cultural critic, and PhD scholar on the College of California, tells Refinery29 Somos. “What kind of emotions, yearnings, anxieties do these tales materialize? Why do these tales, through which [we see] financial success, the overcoming of poverty, violence, the defiance of presidency, and authorized institutional forces, generate such a fierce attraction? And the way, in a rustic the place nearly all of the inhabitants lives in precarity, with little privileges and rights, do these narratives spark a deep affection?”
