Healing Traditions: How Curanderismo is Reviving Cultural Connection in the Borderlands

Mexican folk medicine is being reclaimed during a time of deep uncertainty in the U.S. political climate.

Laurencio Lopez Nuñez leads a ceremony in preparation for a healing session. He practices the curandero traditions of his native Oaxaca, Mexico. (Photo credit: Imanol Miranda)

Imanol Miranda can still recall fleeting memories of curanderismo, or Mexican folk medicine, from his childhood in Mexico City. He remembers the smell of burning copal, seeing a ri…