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A Global Positioning System, The Provincial Whore, & The Dead Woman

A Tale Of The Argentine Department Of Highways by Roger Gallo

The Argentine, while predictable; surprises. The dead woman has shrines on every motorway, littered with hundreds of water bottles. Sometimes the shrine is replete with the sculpture of a woman, child at breast, sometimes not. What I at first glance perceived as mounds of debris in front of a Goodwill Box, was a Eucharist-like offering of hundreds of multicolored plastic bottles; belated offerings of water for a woman who died of thirst in the desert. The dead woman, Deolinda Correa, worshipped by the truck drivers of Argentina, was a woman whose husband was forcibly recruited during one of the Argentine civil wars that occurred around 1840. She is now a popular saint through no fault of her own, unofficially, and unrecognized by the Catholic Church. She performs miracles.

The road to my vineyard passed two such shrines. . . . read the rest of the article here.

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