Jalisco Region Research Articles

Evaluation of Biogas Potential from Livestock Manures and Multicriteria Site Selection for Centralized Anaerobic Digester Systems: The Case of Jalisco, México

The state of Jalisco is the largest livestock producer in Mexico, leading in the production of swine, eggs, and milk. This immense production generates enormous amounts of waste as a byproduct of the process itself. The poor management of livestock-derived waste can lead to multiple environmental problems like nutrient accumulation in soil, water eutrophication, and air pollution. The aim of this work is to establish a replicable geographic information system (GIS)-based methodology for selecting priority sites in which to implement anaerobic digestion units. These units will use multiple parameters that evaluate environmental risks and viability factors for the units themselves. A weighted overlay analysis was used to identify critical regions and, based on the results, clusters of individual livestock production units (LPUs) across the state were selected. Nitrogen and phosphorus recovery, as well as the energetic potential of the selected clusters, were calculated. Four clusters located mainly in the Los Altos region of Jalisco were selected as critical and analyzed. The results indicate that Jalisco has the potential to generate 5.5% of its total electricity demand if the entirety of its livestock waste is treated and utilized in centralized anaerobic digestion units. Additionally, 49.2 and 31.2 Gg of nitrogen and phosphorus respectively could be valorized, and there would be an estimated total reduction of 3012.6 Gg of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2eq).

Estudio preliminar del fertirriego en el cultivo de la sandía (Citrullus lanatus, thumb) en Tolimán, Jalisco

El cultivo de la sandía (Citrullus lanatus, thumb) es de los que más requiere del factor hídrico, por lo que la implementación de una adecuada nutrición, aunado al uso eficiente del agua, puede ser una buena alternativa de manejo para los productores de este fruto en la región de Tolimán, Jalisco, y en otras regiones del país. Se realizaron muestreos de suelo y de agua para determinar su calidad para riego, así como del estado nutrimental del cultivo de la sandía mediante las metodologías del índice de balance de Kenworthy (IBK) y la desviación del óptimo porcentual (DOP). Los resultados muestran que el IBK es útil para los casos de muestras pequeñas y en estudios a nivel local (por valles y/o municipios). Asimismo, este estudio preliminar sugiere que el número de observaciones sea cuando menos de 48, porque así se tendrán tres rangos nutrimentales: alto, medio y bajo. Bajo este esquema se repartirían las observaciones en una población normal: 48 / 3 = 16 observaciones por rango, lo que es suficiente para determinar los valores reales, sin tener que hacer uso de la desviación estándar.

Why latent entrepreneurs delay their launch to the market in Mexico

Entrepreneurship fosters job creation and GDP growth, a must for emerging countries. Due to its strategic geographical position, the region of Jalisco, Mexico, is an attraction pole with more than 650 high-tech corporations, exporting a total value of USD 21 billion (around GBP 16.4 billion) annually in tech products and services, being micro and small and medium enterprises a significant part of their companies. In this paper, we introduce a new entrepreneurial perspective about latent entrepreneurship, and we propose a multigroup structural equation modelling (MSEM) model using global entrepreneurship monitor (GEM) data. The model explains why latent entrepreneurs delay launching to the market, based on their fear of failure, perceived opportunities, and the emulation effect formed when nascent entrepreneurs interact with other successful colleagues. The main finding of this study suggests that in Mexico latent entrepreneurs' fear of failure does not moderate the relationship between perceived behavioural control, entrepreneurial intentions, perceived opportunities, and the knowledge of other successful entrepreneurs.

Why latent entrepreneurs delay their launch to the market in Mexico

Entrepreneurship fosters job creation and GDP growth, a must for emerging countries. Due to its strategic geographical position, the region of Jalisco, Mexico, is an attraction pole with more than 650 high-tech corporations, exporting a total value of USD 21 billion (around GBP 16.4 billion) annually in tech products and services, being micro and small and medium enterprises a significant part of their companies. In this paper, we introduce a new entrepreneurial perspective about latent entrepreneurship, and we propose a multigroup structural equation modelling (MSEM) model using global entrepreneurship monitor (GEM) data. The model explains why latent entrepreneurs delay launching to the market, based on their fear of failure, perceived opportunities, and the emulation effect formed when nascent entrepreneurs interact with other successful colleagues. The main finding of this study suggests that in Mexico latent entrepreneurs' fear of failure does not moderate the relationship between perceived behavioural control, entrepreneurial intentions, perceived opportunities, and the knowledge of other successful entrepreneurs.

Temporal variation in pollination services to Cucurbita moschata is determined by bee gender and diversity

AbstractIt has been proposed that species‐rich insect communities and species turnover across landscapes enhance the pollination efficiency of crops through complementarity, where both the dominant and less abundant species contribute to reaching a yield threshold from pollination. Alternatively, fluctuations in the most abundant pollinator species, rather than changes in species richness, may drive temporal variation in pollination services. In this study, we used Cucurbita moschata as a model to investigate temporal variation in pollinator communities in a Mexican tropical dry forest region. We sampled floral visitors in the coastal region of Jalisco during the wet and dry seasons and determined the pollination efficiency of all floral visitors. Our results showed that there was temporal variation in the pollinator community and in the pollination efficiency of the main pollinators of Cucurbita moschata crops. In the wet season, native bees of the genus Peponapis were the most frequent and effective pollinators of C. moschata, whereas in the dry season, Peponapis bees were scarce and Apis mellifera became the most frequent floral visitor. Apis mellifera transfers smaller pollen loads than Peponapis, but it provides an effective pollination service in conjunction with other native bees during the dry season. There was also an interaction between flower gender and pollinator species, where A. mellifera had higher visitation rate to female C. moschata flowers, and Peponapis bees to staminate flowers. Mean visitation rate by Peponapis female bees was 17 times higher than visitation rate by male bees. This is the first report of a vis‐à‐vis relationship of pollinator gender with respect to plant gender in which plants of the genus Cucurbita that produce unisexual staminate and pistillate flowers are differentially visited by Peponapis male and female bees, where females are the main pollinators. Understanding the temporal variation in pollinator communities and the contribution of the different species of pollinators to the reproductive success of different crop species and varieties can be crucial to maintaining pollination services under the current global pollination crisis.

Pueblo de papel: la producción social del territorio en el poblado industrial de Atenquique, México

Este artículo estudia, desde el marco teórico de la geografía crítica, la producción social del espacio en Atenquique, un poblado industrial en la región sur del estado de Jalisco en el occidente mexicano. A partir del caso de estudio, se reflexiona acerca de la transformación del territorio a raíz de la entrada del neoliberalismo al país y sobre la precarización laboral profundizada en las últimas décadas. La metodología se sustenta en el trabajo etnográfico durante cuatro meses en el lugar, apoyado en tres metodologías audiovisuales: recorridos con cámara, historia oral y producción de un documental etnográfico. Los resultados del caso de estudio muestran las complejas construcciones –materiales y simbólicas– que los ex habitantes de Atenquique han tejido sobre el territorio, así como el cambio que se le ha dado al mismo. Por último, las conclusiones vuelven a debates amplios sobre las consecuencias territoriales y sociales de la implementación del modelo neoliberal en México.

Annotated Checklist and Biogeographical Affinities of ScarabaeinaeBeetles from Los Altos de Jalisco Region, Mexico

An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeinae fauna from Los Altos de Jalisco region of Mexico is presented in this work. Also, a biogeographical perspective is presented to analyze distribution of the species because of the confluence of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt and the Mexican High Plateau South in the study area. Before this study, little fieldwork was done in the region. During our survey of 3 years in the Los Altos de Jalisco region, we recorded six tribes, 10 genera, and 20 species of Scarabaeinae. This represented 7.4% of the total species diversity for Mexico and 25.3% of the diversity of the subfamily for Jalisco State. We recorded for the first time Canthon humectus hidalgoensis Bates at Jalisco.

Local earthquake tomography of the Jalisco, Mexico region

The states of Jalisco, Colima, and Michoacán in western Mexico overlie the boundary of the subducting Rivera and Cocos plates, presenting an ideal target for seismological inquiry to better understand the resulting mantle flow and regional volcanism. The different dips between the two subducting plates are thought to provide a mantle conduit that has contributed to the Colima Volcanic Complex (CVC), but there is considerable debate on the depth of the Rivera plate and width of the resulting conduit. With data from the Mapping the Rivera Subduction Zone (MARS) and Colima Deep Seismic Experiment (CODEX) networks, two temporary broadband arrays deployed in the region between 2006 and 2008, we inverted for three-dimensional P- and S-wave velocity as well as Vp/Vs structure of the upper ~70km of the crust and mantle in the Jalisco region. Using a newly-developed automatic P- and S-wave picker, we increased P picks by ~74% and S picks by more than a factor of four compared to a database of manual picks for the 803 earthquakes used in the inversion. Additional relocated earthquakes extending to the trench are consistent with previous interpretations of the Rivera and Cocos plate interfaces. Areas of high Vp/Vs above both subducting slabs suggest the presence of fluids resulting from dehydration of subducted material. Extensive crustal seismicity occurs near these anomalies. A zone of high Vp/Vs is also present under the CVC. We also compare the results of different methods for obtaining Vp/Vs: a direct inversion for Vp/Vs from S minus P times versus simply dividing the Vp model by the Vs model. We find direct inversions of S minus P times to be more reliable.

Long-Term Regional Landscape Change in the Northern Tequila Region of Jalisco, Mexico

ABSTRACTThe Tequila Valleys, in Jalisco, Mexico, are well-known in archaeology for an early complex society known as the Teuchitlán tradition (350 b.c.–a.d. 450/500), but later developments have received little attention. Here I report on the first systematic, full-coverage survey of the Tequila region north of the Tequila volcano. I explore the ways in which the societies that occupied this territory experienced sociopolitical change diachronically by investigating settlement scale, integration, complexity, and boundedness. Through the use of these core features, I analyze how each changed in varying ways, resulting in patterns that do not conform to static societal categories. Interestingly, there is no evidence that a large polity controlled the entire region at any point in the sequence. Results indicate a dynamic sociopolitical landscape that did not develop along any predetermined pathway.

Food Sovereignty and Territory: The Domestic Production Unit as a Basic Premise

While in the current economic model problems of poverty and hunger are still not resolved, in Mexico there are about 63 million people (CONEVAL, 2014), public policies should aim to strengthen the production units which, by their economic and organizational nature, they are more likely to produce cheap food for local final consumers and the same housed units allow reproduction of a huge population. In this article, it is exposed the progress of the research entitled Domestic production unit on food sovereignty: case study of localities with highest level of rurality in Jalisco, guided by the overall objective of generating information on domestic unit of production to assist in the development of a theoretical model that provides indicators on how to achieve food sovereignty in Mexico. This research is based on the hypothesis that strengthening the domestic unit of production is the basic premise to achieve food sovereignty. In this article results are shown of analysis of the relationship between the domestic unit of production and food sovereignty, to determine the conceptual criteria, their variables and indicators to develop tools and instruments methodological basis necessary to obtain the data for analysis, diagnosis and generation of information: results of analysis the existing theory and interviews with 38 domestic unit of production located in two municipalities with high rurality, Cuquío and San Cristóbal de la Barranca, located in the Central region of Jalisco, México.

Hacia el perfil del Liderazgo Responsable Empresarial / Towards Responsible Leadership Business profile

La presente investigación se inserta en los ámbitos del liderazgo y la Responsabilidad Social Empresarial, su objetivo es identificar aquellas características que definen al líder de las pequeñas y medianas empresas para atender las expectativas de los grupos de interés y determinar si están dispuestos los líderes a transitar por la gestión responsable. El estudio fue de tipo descriptivo, no experimental y transversal. La muestra fue conformada por 60 empresas de la Región Valles del Estado de Jalisco, a quienes se les administro un cuestionario.

The Cost of Dreams of Utopia: Neocolonialism in Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo and Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses

The Cost of Dreams of Utopia:Neocolonialism in Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo and Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses Susan Savage Lee The journey through unknown landscapes materializes repeatedly in the literary world; however, each quest presents various possibilities when analyzing the context and content of a character’s search. In the case of Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo (1955) and Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses (1993), the protagonists seek out Mexico as a means of developing their interior beings. More importantly, the location of Mexico as the protagonists’ ultimate destination allows for the two novels to play out the neocolonial legacy of U.S./Mexican imperial history through the characters’ utopian visions of landscape. Rulfo’s work begins with Juan Preciado’s search for his father’s legacy in Comala, Mexico. Inspired by his mother, Dolores’ romanticized images of the place, Preciado imagines that he will pick up where his father, Pedro Páramo, left off. In contrast to a utopian landscape, Preciado finds a neglected town filled with deceased townspeople who tell the protagonist all about Comala’s past. Preciado learns that his father was nothing more than a cacique who eventually abandoned the town he once controlled. In All the Pretty Horses, John Grade Cole leaves Texas to find his ideal life in Mexico. Cole, disillusioned by modernization in 1940s Texas, believes that Mexico is an untouched, primitive landscape perfect for his re-creation of the frontier myth. When Cole encounters a ranch which supports his image of what Mexico will be, he believes he has found a utopian landscape. However, as Cole and his friend, Lacey Rawlins, discover in their experiences at the ranch, Mexico also possesses modernization, exploiters of the landscape, and caciques. Although scholars have discussed these two works separately, by comparing Rulfo and McCarthy, we can read the intersection of American and Mexican history contrapuntally. For example, the history of caciquismo, the centerpiece of Pedro Páramo, illuminates the fallacy of John Grady Cole’s Westernized utopian vision in All the Pretty Horses. What links the two novels is this history of caciquismo embedded within Mexican culture and its landscape. The two protagonists, however, approach this system of inequality in different ways. Juan Preciado stumbles upon his father’s legacy through the testimonies presented [End Page 152] by the dead townspeople Pedro Páramo once oppressed. Rulfo’s novel illustrates how neocolonialism can be adopted by the marginalized in order to create a new system of domination/subjugation after the colonizer has moved on. John Grady Cole, in contrast, unknowingly becomes the colonizer as he uses the Mexican landscape to alleviate his disillusionment with American society. During this process, he is forced to witness the effects of caciquismo on the people he encounters during his journey. The emphasis on caciquismo in both novels exemplifies the reliance of native (Pedro Páramo) and non-native (Cole) characters on the universalist concepts of what it means to be civilized and modernized, and what it means to be perceived as the opposite of these values. The utopian visions of the Mexican landscape, which propel the novels’ plots, demonstrate that the neocolonial legacy of U.S./Mexican relations exists in the present moment through the interconnection between universalism and the colonial imagination. Juan Rulfo’s novel, Pedro Páramo, takes place in Comala, an idealized representation of the past inspired by the Jalisco region of Mexico. The province of Jalisco possesses forests, bays, and agave plants. The version of Comala that Juan Preciado discovers, in contrast, is a desolate town surrounded by a gray mist, a veiled horizon, and a lake that seemingly disappears (Rulfo 5). In fact, a part of the title of the work indicates that the protagonist has nothing to look forward to but a remote wasteland (páramo means wasteland). Preciado’s quest suggests his nebulous and dualistic identity. His pledge to his dying mother to seek out his inheritance presents a genealogical sense of Jean Luc Nancy’s belonging to landscape. In The Ground of the Image (2005), Nancy suggests that, “the country manifests itself as something based on a belonging, but a belonging that can...

Salvia cacomensis (Lamiaceae), una nueva especie de salvia deJalisco, Occidente de México

A new endemic species is described and illustrated from a botanically little known region of Jalisco, Western Mexico. The morphology of Salvia cacomensis J. G. Gonzalez, J. Morales et J. Rodriguez is more related with both sections Briquetia Epling and Tubiflorae (Epling) Epling of subg. Calosphace (Benth.) Benth. It manifests an intermediate state between them . However, the new taxon is distinguished by the combination of its essentially glabrous indumentum, the 1-flowered verticillasters, the magenta corollas, and the particular dimensions of the floral bract, calyx and corolla.

Tequila tourism as a factor of development: a strategic vision in Mexico

Purpose – The main objective of the paper is to establish that Tequila Tourism can be a tool in the economic development of the Jalisco region, linking the product, tequila, the agave landscape, and the fact that the tourist route can be a sign of identity for this tourist market. Design – The need to achieve sustainable rural development, taking into account respect for the environment, along with the creation of wealth and jobs, is would involve both public administrations and companies through the promotion of complementary activities in this rural region; thus, this paper advocates the consolidation of the Tequila Route. Methodology – The proposed methodology develops a theoretical contextualization of the subject of this study –Tequila Tourism – using a Delphi approach with a panel of experts, leading to a SWOT analysis. Approach – This study has been developed using the interpretative approach Expert opinion has shed light on the strengths and weaknesses of the Tequila Route as endogenous factors for progress in these rural areas. Finding – This research has established that the enhancement of tequila as a product shows great potential for the development of new tourism practices such as gastronomic tourism. Originality of research – The originality is found in the analysis of the economic potential of introducing Tequila tourism routes in the region of Jalisco, Mexico and providing guidance and ideas for further improvements and research into this important sector of tourism.

Dietary fat and antioxidant vitamin intake in patients of neurodegenerative disease in a rural region of Jalisco, Mexico

ObjectiveTo evaluate and compare the intake of lipids and (A, E, and C) vitamins in patients with and without possible neurodegenerative diseases.MethodsTwenty adults with possible Alzheimer's disease or Parkinson's disease and 41 control subjects (50–89 years old) from a rural region were studied. Dietary intake was evaluated with the analysis of macronutrients and micronutrients conducted by a food frequency questionnaire and 24 hours dietary record. Analyses were adjusted for age, sex, body mass index, and energy intake. Through interrogation and use of medical record form of health secretary we obtained information about the sociodemographic characteristics. Multivariate analysis of variance to allow for covariated adjustment was used.ResultsPatients had a lower energy intake, vitamin C (P = 0.016), fruits (P < 0.001), vegetables (P = 0.037), and oils and fat (P = 0.002), than the controls. Interestingly, the C vitamin intake in patients was still higher than the recommended. Patients had a higher consumption of cereals (P = 0.017), high-animal fat diet (P = 0.024), and whole milk (P < 0.001); 2.4% of the controls smoke and 5% are alcohol consumers. Eighty-five percent of patients and 78% of the controls do not have physical activity. Family history of subjects in this study indicated chronic diseases.ConclusionThe subjects included in this study had a high intake of C vitamin, this is due to the consumption of fruits and vegetables. However, patients with possible Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease had a lower intake of fruits and vegetables, which could be due to type of food to which they have access.

Light-level geolocators reveal strong migratory connectivity and within-winter movements for a coastal California Swainson's Thrush (Catharus ustulatus) population

ABSTRACT. We used light-level geolocators to describe the migratory geography of Swainson's Thrushes (Catharus ustulatus) from a breeding population in central coastal California. Between 11 June and 20 July 2010, we attached geolocator tags to 35 Swainson's Thrushes at three sites in Marin County, California, and recovered 12 in the following two breeding seasons. All 12 birds spent the winter in Mexico, north of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Eleven of the birds went to the Jalisco region in western Mexico, but two of those birds (18% of total) moved east in midwinter to either the Sierra Madre Oriental or Sierra Madre del Sur; the 12th bird went directly to one of the latter regions. The return rate over the next 2 years for tagged birds (34%) was not statistically lower than that for control birds (45%). We combined our results with the results of an earlier study that used geolocators on Swainson's Thrushes from British Columbia to quantify the strength of migratory connectivity using Mantel's correlati...

Regional Development and Sustainability: Cultural Tourism in the Southern Region of Jalisco

This study aims to determine the potential of cultural tourism in the municipalities that comprise region 6 of the State of Jalisco, territorially delimited in the South of Jalisco. (Subject is missing) Are tested first to identify the demand for cultural tourism to determine the profile of the cultural tourist under the assumptions that tourists especially motivated by culture tend to travel longer distances than most tourists. It discusses the motivations and satisfactions of cultural tourists in order to establish the potential market in accordance with the characteristics of the target market in the southern region of Jalisco. Any operation of cultural tourism companies should make the strategic diagnosis, which explains the use of SWOT analysis as a tool for strategic planning of cultural tourism enterprises. Finally, we propose some development strategies of cultural tourism in this region of Southern Jalisco.

Strategies of Mexican Cultural Industry for Regional Development of Northern Jalisco: The Case of Huichol Handcrafts

Cultural industries have taken a very important role in the preservation of culture and national identity, so that the momentum of these is a factor to consider as part of the country's economic growth. In addition to the craft as part of the culture industry plays a key role in modern economies. The present study aims to analyze the importance of craft production in the northern state of Jalisco to be promoted for the purpose of regional attraction, for cultural, economic and social. This work will be announced strategic alternatives that both the State and other institutions can implement to promote regional development by implementing projects involving the promotion of culture and crafts of the northern region of Jalisco.

Salvia cacomensis (Lamiaceae), a new species from Jalisco, Mexico

A new species from a botanically little known region of Jalisco, Mexico, is described and illustrated. The morphology of Salvia cacomensis J. G. Gonzalez, J. Morales et J. Rodriguez is related to that of the species of sections Briquetia Epling and Tubiflorae (Epling) Epling of subgenus Calosphace (Benth.) Benth. The new taxon is distinguished by the combination of its essentially glabrous surface, the 2-flowered verticillasters, the pink to magenta corollas, and the particular dimensions of the floral bract, the calyx and the corolla.

Los Del Olvido

Los Del Olvido David Dorado Romo (bio) Take a good look at what becomes of the Mexican who goes north. He ends up a man without religion, without a country or home… a coward, an afeminado who is incapable of feeling shame for having abandoned his responsibilities to his family. Despite this, the roads are packed with Mexicans headed toward the United States in search of bitter bread. Everywhere you hear the rallying cry—"¡Vámonos al norte!" —St. Toribio Romo, ¡Vámonos al Norte! Every Mexican, to paraphrase the chilango performance artist Guillermo-Gómez Peña, is a potential Pocho. Take my tío Toribio Romo for instance. My father's second cousin was a priest and a writer from Jalisco, Mexico, who didn't like Mexicans-turned-Pochos too much during his lifetime but became, after his death, a transcultural hybrid of sorts. Santo Toribio, who was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2000, is known as the patron saint of migrants. Some call him the "Holy Smuggler." But I like to think of my tío as the first officially certified Pocho Saint. The funny thing is that while he was still alive, Uncle Toribio had some pretty harsh words for Mexicans who crossed over to the US. He called them "traitors to the motherland" and all sorts of other unflattering names. But as divine providence would have it, decades after Toribio was assassinated by Mexican federal soldiers during the Cristero War in 1928 for practicing the priesthood illegally, he seems to have ended up crossing to this side of the border himself—today people in California and Arizona say they sometimes see him walking around or driving a red pickup truck through the deserts rescuing stranded immigrants. Recently, I traveled to Guadalajara where I uncovered a huge batch of St. Romo's writings in the Catholic Church's historical archives. That's where I met the Promoter of the Faith, popularly known as the Devil's Advocate—the archivist appointed by the Vatican to gather documents and dig up dirt on candidates for sainthood. The Devil's Advocate allowed me to take digital photographs of hundreds of pages written by Toribio Romo, none of which have ever been published. Most of them were plays, sermons, homilies, letters to his family, and journal entries he wrote hurriedly on scraps of paper inside caves and abandoned adobe shacks while on the run from government troops. The most fascinating literary piece I came across was a one-act comedy Toribio Romo wrote titled ¡Vámonos al Norte! Believing humor could be an effective weapon in the Catholic Church's "holy crusade" against emigration to the US, Romo staged this slapstick morality play in the Los Altos de Jalisco region in the early 1920s to convince his parishioners to stay home. ¡Vámonos al Norte! depicts a cultural clash between Rogiciano, an Americanized Mexican migrant who returns to his village in central Mexico with foolish airs of superiority, and Sancho, a rough but sharp-witted campesino who never left. In the opening scenes, Rogiciano impresses the locals by flaunting his newly acquired English and proclaiming himself a lover of "progress and civilization." But towards the latter part of the play, Sancho literally beats the acculturated Mexican into submission by slapping him over the head with a cane and forcing him to stand before the audience like a mannequin—Brechtian style—to expose the evils of emigration. Rogiciano is the ultimate Spanglish-speaking cultural half-breed. With his slicked-back hair, sweet-smelling cologne, silk shirt, and high-water pants, he is the very embodiment of the corrosive influences that returning emigrants bring back from the other side—irresponsibility, the loss of family values, materialism, and sexual ambiguity. If you betray your country and go north, Toribio Romo's play warns, you might come back as a "rooster hen that neither crows nor lays eggs" or, even worse, a Protestant. At the end of the theatre piece, Rogiciano is forced to strip down to his underwear, like the mythical Pachuco character of Luis Valdez's Zoot Suit (1978). In the past few years, I've come across quite a...