Telenovelas

Published: Feb. 3, 2007, 1 p.m.

Hugo Benavides grew up watching Latin American soap operas -telenovelas-on TV in New\n York and Equador. But he never thought that when he\ngrew up, he'd be studying them. We talk to Benavides about telenovelas, and about the US-Mexico border melodramas called\xa0 "Narcodramas".