"Uncovering the Truth Behind the Myth of Pancho Villa" Topic

…, Movie Star

"Pancho Villa, seen here in a still taken from Mutual's exclusive 1914 film footage. But did the Mexican rebel really sign a contract agreeing to fight his battles according to the ideas of a Hollywood director?

The first casualty of war is truth, they say, and nowhere was that more true than in Mexico during the revolutionary period between 1910 and 1920. In all the blood and chaos that followed the overthrow of Porfirio Diaz, who had been dictator of Mexico since 1876, what was left of the central government in Mexico City found itself fighting several contending rebel forces—most notably the Liberation Army of the South, commanded by Emiliano Zapata, and the Chihuahua-based División del Norte, led by the even more celebrated bandit-rebel Pancho Villa–and the three-cornered civil war that followed was notable for its unrelenting savagery, its unending confusion and (north of the Rio Grande, at least) its unusual film deals. Specifically, it is remembered for the contract Villa was supposed to have signed with a leading American newsreel company in January 1914. Under the terms of this agreement, it is said, the rebels undertook to fight their revolution for the benefit of the movie cameras in exchange for a large advance, payable in gold…"

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Armand

The Truth is in the music.
Fernando by ABBA.
Pancho and Lefty by Townes van Zandt.
That's where I get my True History!

Only the names change.

I posted a reference to a different article on the same topic back in 2017:
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And still nobody has made 1/72 Mexican bandits in plastic… :-(

(smile)

Armand