All Things Rhapsodical

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“¡Mátale!”

“¡Mátale!”

A story from Baja California

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Alexander Riley
Jun 22, 2022
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Tijuana, Baja California, more than twenty years ago, in a notoriously rough part of the city, a few blocks over from the city’s Red Light district. I was there on a quest for a number of cumbia CDs in the wealth of small music shops concentrated there within a block or two of one another. A Mexican friend had given me a list and a rough map of the sh…

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