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| | Mike Davis | Monsters and Messiahs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Indeed, the chupacabra may be an echo of the mythic bestiary of the Taynos, Puerto Rico's extinct aboriginal culture. |
 | | After the chupacabra's immigration to Mexico in early 1996, however, its image was remodeled yet again, as the bug-eyed rat face and punk-rocker hairstyle were replaced by bat wings and a space alien's head. |
 | | The Mexican left, on the other hand, declared that the chupacabra was actually Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the runaway ex-president, who "had sucked the blood of his country," and T-shirts with Salinas's visage, bald and big-eared, on the body of a chupacabra soon became a popular rage. |
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