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“Thefts from churches have become routine here in the colonial heartland of Mexico, spurred by collectors’ demand, a dwindling number of legitimate pieces and what appears to be only a remote chance of facing prosecution.
Looters have picked through Latin America’s archaeological sites for centuries. These church robberies are newer, arising as the taste for colonial religious art has grown in the international art market. Every country in the region has experienced thefts, but the scale is larger in Mexico because of the country’s wealth of colonial art.”
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