El Mundo Gira

"El Mundo Gira" is the eleventh episode of the fourth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files.

The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files.

Shiban was inspired to write "El Mundo Gira" after noticing the long lines of migrant workers he would often see at his job when working as a computer programmer in the Los Angeles area.

Agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) investigate the death of Maria Dorantes, an illegal immigrant from Mexico living in the San Joaquin Valley near Fresno, California who was found dead, with her face partially eaten away, after yellow rain fell from the sky.

Mulder, assisted on the case by Mexican-American INS agent Conrad Lozano, is able to track down and interrogate Eladio, who frightens the other migrants.

Eladio escapes in the foreman's truck and heads to the grocery store where Gabrielle works, spreading the fungal growth.

Initial versions of the story featured a child and later a truck driver as the carriers of the contagion before Shiban settled on the character of Eladio.

Lozano was portrayed by Panamanian singer, actor, and ad hoc politician Ruben Blades, whom Chris Carter had long been wanting to feature in an episode.

Coincidentally, Raymond Cruz and Simi Mehta—the actors who portrayed Eladio and Gabrielle—were in a romantic relationship at the time of filming[2] and later were married.

The show's set designers scouted out a barren stretch of land near Boundary Bay Airport, Vancouver and erected a faux-migrant camp for use in the episode.

"[8] Furthermore, the author criticized the story's "Mexican soap opera" style, noting that it drowned out the themes in "unengaging melodrama".