There was no news about Josué Hernández Mercado, the vanished reporter from La Raza. One night Mary-Sue searched through her file on the Haas case until she came up with the story Hernández Mercado had written after the poorly attended press conference at the Santa Teresa penitentiary. Hernández Mercado’s style wavered between sensationalism and flatness. The story was riddled with clichés, inaccuracies, sweeping statements, exaggerations, and flagrant lies. Sometimes Hernández Mercado painted Haas as the scapegoat of a conspiracy of rich Sonorans and sometimes Haas appeared as an avenging
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