Mourning Jenni Rivera: “When a Lady Dies”
…ular culture. Mourning in Public Tomen tequila y cerveza que toquen fuerte las bandas suelten por mi mariposas apláudanme con sus palmas por que así es como celebran cuando se muere una dama (From Rivera’s “Cuando Muera una Mujer”) As Octavio Paz famously wrote in his monumental work on Mexican consciousness, The Labyrinth of Solitude, “A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.” With the public outpourings of remembrance, the candles…
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