Today is the day of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Across Mexico – and the world – devotees flock to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the heart Mexico City to celebrate and pay tribute to the patron saint that Catholics call the Queen of Mexico and the Empress of the Americas.
Los Angeles is the second city with the largest of population of …

One of the goals of Sonic Trace is to find stories that are local to both Los Angeles and Mexico. The recent Mexican presidential election was one such story. As producers, we wanted to explore the election in a way that was timely, relevant and not boring for KCRW’s LA audience. We wanted to explain Mexican democracy, and the importance of being invested in …

This past Sunday,  Mexican Presidential candidates engaged in their second and final debate before the July 1 election. With three weeks to go, Enrique Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is the front-runner by a comfortable margin.
Sonic Trace teen reporter Luis Carlos sat down with his family and a friend to watch the second Mexican Presidential debate. Two weeks ago, he didn’t …

Sonic Trace– part of KCRW’s Independent Producer Project– is a multimedia project and radio series  bringing you stories that explore the three age-old questions about community and immigration in Los Angeles.
¿Por qué te fuiste? ¿Por qué te quedaste? ¿Por qué regresaste?
Why do people leave? Why do others stay? And, what makes people go back (in either direction)?
Sonic Trace is a story-telling and documentary experiment produced …