The chisme – gossip – these days among the cooks at Las Palmas Restaurant in San Jose revolves around the Latino trial of the century: the trial in Houston of Yolanda Saldivar, accused of murdering Tejano music superstar Selena. If there’s a similarity between the O.J. Simpson trial and Saldivar’s, it is that both share a level of celebrity that has attracted intense media and public scrutiny. In the Simpson case, however, the attention was nearly universal. In Saldivar’s, it is largely limited to Latinos, among whom the trial has become a near-obsession – as large a phenomenon as the Simpson trial was to the rest of the country.
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