La Catrina: El Ultimo Secreto

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La Catrina: El Ultimo Secreto is an educational video series shown to students taking intermediate level Spanish classes.^[1]. The video, a sequel to La Catrina, was created by David Curland in 1997.^[2] La Catrina: El Ultimo Secreto starts out where the original La Catrina left off. Jamie, Carlos, Rogelio and more are back in an adventure when Don Silvestre tries to enact revenge from Jamie. ^[3]

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The story of La Catrina: El Ultimo Secreto begins with Jamie Gonzalez back in Los Angeles, about half a year after the original La Catrina. Jamie, worried that her boyfriend Carlos back in Queretaro, Mexico, is not writing to her, assumes that a mysterious coyote artifact sent to her is from Carlos. Along with her friend Rosie, Jamie goes on a foreign exchange program in Oaxaca and meets Carlos. To her dismay, Carlos denies sending the Coyote artifact.

Rosie, Jamie, and Carlos eventually find Benito Lopez, a local guide for the Oaxaca pyramids whose mother is head of the art institute. Señora Lopez works on deciphering the credibility of the Coyote, while Jamie, Carlos, Benito, and Rosie meet with Rogelio, a librarian assistant from Queretaro who knows about the secret possessions of Jamie's great grandmother, La Catrina.

Doña Josefa de Gonzalez, or La Catrina, was a very prominent figure during the Mexican Revolution. In the fictional series of La Catrina, she is noted for stealing money from the rich for the poor, in a Robin Hood type of fashion. In the original La Catrina, the mystery behind her estate, La Jacaranda, was revealed. Now, in La Catrina: El Ultimo Secreto, La Catrina's private getaway in Oaxaca, El Mesón de Jaguar, is believed to now be under the illegal art trafficking scene.