When Venustiano Carranza was president. 12,000 Americans crossed the border To hunt down and punish Pancho Villa for a “slip.” Poncho Villa (between 1908 and 1919, Library of Congress On March ...
Viva Villa! is a corking western. It's a big, impressive production which sets out to make Wallace Beery's Pancho Villa appear as a somewhat sympathetic and quasi-patriotic bandit. Viva Villa!
As a sublieutenant under Pancho Villa in 1913, Pedro Gomez took slugs in his stomach and in one leg, was left to die after a skirmish in which government forces routed Villa. Before he could die ...
The demise of dictators is woven into the fabric of history. In his massive, exhaustive, definitive new biography of Pancho Villa, famed Mexican author, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, calls Porfirio Diaz ...