Pancho Villa

Doroteo Arango Arámbula, better known as Pancho Villa, is one of the most iconic and controversial figures of the Mexican Revolution. His memory was relegated, if not attacked, by the post-revolutionary regime, but his unquestionable popularity, inside and outside Mexico, led to his incorporation into the revolutionary imaginary, with an image between idealized and brutal. Numerous intellectuals of different sign have tried to decipher it, without forgetting that it was Villa himself who fed the cinematographic and Hollywoodesque dimension of him, being the main propagator of his legend. Villa's story also symbolizes the internal contradictions between the northern regions of Mexico and their tensions with the central power, as well as the country's difficult relations with the United States. The upcoming celebration of the centenary of his murder is an ideal time to publish an informative work that reveals the different facets of the man and the myth that Pancho Villa was.