Mordida del Chupacabra

Mexico has a Sasquatch of its own: the legendary chupacabra (literally, “goat sucker”), a squat, hairy . . . um . . . thing, which sucks the blood out of small animals in the night and can presumably be conjured up by Mami to keep naughty children in line. Most of your encounters with chupacabras will be in daylight at the local juice stand, where the popular mixture of fresh fruit, beet, and other vegetable juices makes a healthy (if blood-colored) start to the day. The juice