I know Rio Arriba County reasonably well - having lived there part time for over 10 years and follow the politics. This piece is not anything new or insightful about the particular political issues of a poor, rural, isolated part of the US with some ancient history and problems with education and drugs that put it into the top 10 worst counties in the US. I admire the person who produced it but the context of this county is important - and it isn't he connection to the old Spanish but is the problems of poor, disempowered people having to make it with less than most. The conditions of the schools and health care in rio arriba county are among the worst in the US and that never comes out in this piece. This is an "old story" of local control and power that doesn't have enough freshness to put it higher on the list.