Dear Readers,

Due to budget cuts currently affecting the University of Arizona, the result of difficult economic times experienced across the country, Studies in Latin American Popular Culture will be on hiatus beginning next year (2009) while the editorial team examines new possibilities to secure funding for publication. We thank you for your support and loyalty to the journal, and we assure you that every effort will be made to ensure that SLAPC will be able to continue publishing cutting edge research on Latin American popular culture in the future. 

Sincerely,

Melissa A. Fitch, Editor

Charles M. Tatum, Senior Co-Founding Editor 

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IN MEMORIAM

Donald S. Castro 

Professor Don Castro was an early and very strong friend and advocate for Studies in Latin American Popular Culture. It was back in the early 1980s when we co-founded the journal that Don stepped forward to help us navigate unchartered waters. For many years throughout the 1980s we would rent exhibit space at the Latin American Studies Association and the Popular Culture Association meetings to promote the journal. Don was one of the three or four members of our editorial team that would regularly spend time at our booth while we attended sessions to listen to scholarly lectures on popular culture and to encourage some of the presenters to submit articles for consideration for publication in our fledging journal. Without the backing of a professional organization, the support that Don generously offered us was not only deeply appreciated but crucial to our success. Don also expressed his support by publishing his fine scholarship on Argentine popular culture in early issues of the journal. Don then served for many years as our Book Review Editor until his passing last year. We all miss his enthusiasm, good cheer, and utter dedication to the journal. 

Charles M. Tatum,The University of Arizona

Harold E. Hinds Jr., University of Minnesota, Morris