And here I was pretty sure Marco being Latino was canon ever since I started reading the books some 20 years ago... Maybe something in the French translation? Because I would have bet it was canon...
Again, it’s basically canon, in the sense that anything other than Marco being Latino would require more explanation about where that interpretation is coming from. The least-convoluted and most sensible read of Marco being a self-described Hispanic kid living in the U.S. in the 90s is definitely that Marco is also Latino.
But also there’s a distinct possibility that “Hispanic” got translated to a term with different connotations/implications, because its use in the U.S. is kinda unique to the U.S.
















