The Juárez city council has declared Sept. 19 as "Día del Pachuco," or Pachuco Day, in honor of the late star of the Mexican silver screen Germán "Tin-Tan" Valdes, who embodied the pachuco style that ...

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L.A. marks the Pachucos' legacy 8 decades after facing racism, mistreatment. In the 1930s, Mexican American youth in the Southwest united to oppose racism, segregation and discrimination in the United ...

Folk heroes arise of a need to articulate feelings unsung by conventionality. Our real leaders, that is, people who actually run the country, are rarely inspirational enough to satisfy our need for ...