By Deborah Vargas – NPR.org – Video Capture: YouTube.
Imagine, if you will, being a listener to a radio station on the U.S.-Mexico border in 1939. You would likely be listening to XERA, a radio station broadcast from Cuidad Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico, across the border from Del Rio, Texas. You might hear a song like “La Pollita,” performed by Lydia Mendoza.
