señora

It was an awe-inspiring sight for the pobladores who came from Mexico in 1789 and set up El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles in the name of the Spanish crown.

“La señora said she only grabbed important documents and left,” she told me.

Jurado’s pitch to the señora: Born and raised in the district.

“Senora,” a cellphone vendor called out, asking what she needed and assuming, perhaps, that she spoke Spanish.

In a city that was once part of the Spanish empire, she was no longer “señora,” as she would have been called in Caracas, or perhaps, in her younger years, “muchacha” or “chama.”