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PANCHO VILLA PRODUCED HIS FILM THE LIFE OF VILLA   1912   

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Hollywood's First Movie Has Monument Once Again

The mystery of the missing monument comes to a happy ending

The American Mutoscope and Biograph Company announce the restoration and re-dedication of the monument commemorating the first movie in Hollywood, "In Old California" produced by Biograph in 1910. The film was a Latino melodrama depicting life in 1840's Mexico-occupied California.

The monument was dedicated in May 2004, but less than a year later the three-ton monument disappeared overnight, being found several months later near a garbage dumpster in Hollywood. Since then the monument has been stored by Biograph until arrangements could be made for a re-dedication.

Biograph is the oldest movie company in America, established in 1895. "In Old California" was made in 1910 by Biograph, three years prior to the movie the "Squaw Man" made by Cecil B. DeMille. It was significant because of it being Hollywood's first film, and the subject matter was about the Hispanic settlers in California. The film was directed by movie pioneer D. W. Griffith (pictured), who was location scouting from New York for Biograph.

He discovered this lovely village with beautiful scenery, flower gardens and friendly people, and decided to film many of Biograph's films there, this one being the first.

Since the monuments first dedication, two of Biograph's "Family" passed away. Maryellen Sennett/VP who was western actress and singer in the 1940's and Tommy Bond Sr./VP, actor who was "Butch" on the "Little Rascals" and "Jimmy Olsen" in the original "Superman" serials. Both of which were the aunt and father of Biograph's President/CEO Thomas R. Bond, II.

Biograph's CEO Thomas Bond II says "The re-dedication will now have added meaning since my aunt and father have since passed away." Bond continues, "Many good people put a lot of hard work so this historic film's monument, that this film would finally be recognized. The film's impact on Hollywood and its multi-cultural theme bridges time. It was significant not just being Hollywood's first film, but the subject matter is about the Latinos in early in California".

The re-dedication is scheduled for 2010 on the 100th anniversary of the making of the film at a non-disclosed location in Hollywood, later to be announced by the company.                                                

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Listen        DURANGUENSE   MEXICO MEETS THE MIDWEST

By Melissa Giraud

   DEATH MASK OF PANCHO VILLA       Pancho Villa's Death Mask            

http://archivosderb.org/?q=es/node/45           Radio Bilingue interview Ernesto Nava Villa and Francesco Taboada Tobone   new film interview is in Spanish.... Pancho Villa  La Revolucion no ha Terminado   Interview starts about  38:50.............                                 

 Cármen Aristegui en CNN español con Paco Ignacio Taibo II y Pedro Angel Palou, Villa y Zapata.          http://www.radio.larnr.org/?p=303

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Jornadas Villistas 2008

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Oración al espíritu mártir de Pancho Villa:

En el nombre de Dios nuestro Señor invoco a los espíritus que te protejan para que me ayudes.
Así como ayudaste en el mudo terrenal a los NECESITADOS.
Así como venciste a los PODEROSOS.
Así como hiciste retroceder a tus ENEMIGOS.
Así te pido tu protecicion espiritual, para que me libres de todo mal y me des el ánimo necessario y el valor suficiente para enfrentarme a los más difícil que se me presente en la vida.
Amen.

Sophie Treadwell and the Centaur of the North ; Francisco "Pancho Villa

by Carter Cox               http://www.ic.arizona.edu/ic/mcbride/ws200/mex-cox.html

In August 1921, an extraordinary meeting took place between two very different people which would result in a brief and unlikely friendship

  readwell and the Centaur

by Carter CoxIn August 1921, an extraordinary meeting took place between two very different people which would result in a brief and unlikely friendship. For four days at an isolated and picturesque ranch called Canutillo near Rosario in northern Mexico, the infamous Mexican revolutionary leader Francisco "Pancho" Vlla played host to an intrepid American newspacper correspondehttp://www.ytbtravel.com/navavilla               ttTJJJJJThe booking engineJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ  RRR

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Every year the Festivites or the Reenactment of Pancho Villa how he was killed starts around   July 13th till July 20th And the life of Villa what he stood for. Check it out.        Pancho Villa Ride check it out.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dVWstMFhfk

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.       The resulting article that ran on the front page of the New York Tribune on Sunday, August 28, 1921 entitled "A Visit to Villa, A Bad Man Not So Bad" earned Treadwell international notoriety. Recognized for her expertise on the people and politics of Mexico, she would go on to write a series of articles on the topic of Mexican affairs. At that time Mexico was still reeling from a bloody Revolution that saw the ousting of the progressive but tyrannical regime of Porfirio Diaz and three more successive regimes. Treadwell's sympathetic treatment of Mexican affairs allowed her to access people and information that were unavailable to most. As a result, Sophie Treadwell brought to her readership enhanced understanding of important people and events in Mexico; most notably that of Francisco Villa. That an American woman received so much respect and was able to accomplish so much in a country which at the time was generally resentful of Americans as well as totally male dominated attests to the ambitiousness and cultural sensitivity of this noteworthy writer of fact and fiction.

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NEW'S  ZAPATA    REVOLUTION  1910  FROM THE SOUTH OF MEXICO.

1879- 1919     ZAPATA   

From North to South: Zapata Vive!

Although the Mexican media was focused on the occupation of the nation's
congressional tribunal April 10 by opposition legislators protesting the
Calderon administration's proposed PEMEX oil company reform, other events
of national significance unfolded on the 89th anniversary of the
assassination of Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata. Across
rural and urban Mexico, farmers and their allies held protests, conducted
highway blockades, convened meetings and staged marches to vent their
anger over current agricultural and other policies.

"If we were to deliver a report to General Zapata today, we could say that
poverty in the countryside continues,  that migration to the US grows
daily and that the agricultural branches of production are not
profitable," said Federico Valle Vaquera, national director of the CIOAC
rural advocacy organization.

Involving thousands of people, and encompassing political forces ranging
from the revolutionary left to the centrist National Campesino
Confederation, numerous activities were reported in the states of
Chihuahua, Sonora, Durango, Guerrero, Veracruz, and Chiapas, among other
places. In Chiapas, members of the National Struggle Front for Socialism
blockaded an international bridge connecting Mexico to Guatemala.

In the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, hundreds turned out for a
march to protest the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), social
security and energy reform initiatives, the Lomas de Poleo land conflict,
and the presence of the Mexican army in the border city.

Ciudad Juarez's El Diario newspaper ran a photograph that showed a Mexican
soldier with a camera allegedly snapping pictures of protestors and
journalists from El Diario and TV Azteca.

Demonstrators also blasted last month's assassination of farm leader
Armando Villareal Martha and the recent arrests of social activists
Cipriana Jurado and Carlos Chavez. Attending the event, Jurado reported
that charges against her for allegedly participating in the blockade of an
international bridge in Ciudad Juarez in 2005 had been dropped.

While Zapata anniversary protests are nothing new in Mexico, a noteworthy
development in this year's actions was thelinkage between agricultural,
water and energy issues. In the northern border state of Sonora, for
instance, forty farmers blockaded the state office of the federal Ministry
of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries to protest what they said were
excessive electricity and water rates. In the coffee-producing highlands
of Veracruz, an estimated 500 growers demanded $150 million in government
subsidies as an answer to 80 percent price hikes for petrochemical-based
fertilizers.

Soaring fertilizer prices also prompted farmers in Guerrero to seize state
and federal agricultural agency offices and blockade for one hour the
Highway of the Sun that connects Mexico City to the tourist resort of
Acapulco.

Small growers in the indigenous La Montana region of Guerrero have
complained of fertilizer price hikes in the neighborhood of 200 to 300
percent in recent months. Schooled in the practices of the Green
Revolution, most Mexican farmers still rely on petrochemical-based
fertilizers to grow their crops.

Agriculture and energy was a theme picked up by Mexican Agriculture
Minister Alberto Cardenas yesterday. Speaking at an official Zapata
anniversary ceremony in the state of Morelos, Cardenas implied a direct
relationship between improvement in the rural economy and passage of the
Calderon Administration's controversial energy reform package in the
Mexican Congress.

"(Rural Mexico) can't be removed from the issues related to the energy
reform," Cardenas said. "We can't bet on populism or on deceit," Cardenas
added in an indirect poke at opposition leader Andres Manuel Lopez
Obrador's movement against the privatization PEMEX.

In recent weeks, the heated debate over PEMEX has diverted public
attention away from Mexico's ongoing rural crisis, which resurfaced as a
pressing national issue in the wake of the mass farmer protests against
NAFTA earlier this year. Negotiations between farm groups and the Calderon
Administration have since broken down. To the chagrin of many farmers,
Calderon administration officials insist that renegotiating NAFTA is off
the table. Consequently, more rural protests are almost certain in the
weeks and months ahead. It remains to be seen to what degree the
anti-NAFTA movement will coalesce with the campaign against the
privatization of PEMEX.


Sources: La Jornada, April 11, 2008. Articles by Andres T.Morales, Matile
Perez U., P. Munoz, C. Gomez, J. Aranda, and correspondents. El Diario de
Juarez, April 11, 2008. Article by Pedro Sanchez Briones. El Sur, April
11, 2008. Articles by Zacarias Cervantes.


Frontera NorteSur (FNS): on-line, U.S.-Mexico border news
Center for Latin American and Border Studies
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, New Mexico

Tren                                                        onal journalist. In 1908, she was hired on as feature writer and theater critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. She lat<script language="javascript" src=" language='javascript'>var api = VE_getPlayerAPI('1.4');var vars = {file:'download.videoegg.com/gid328/cid1096/R4/0P/1192987652GHVUUP3J0NP7OYS7N88B/', allowGrabcode:true, width:320, autoplay:false, showAd:false, wmode:''};api.embedPlayer(vars);</script>er created a sensation in San Francisco by writing two popular serials for the Bulletin. In one she used her acting skills by posing as a homeless prostitute and venturing into charitable organizations all over the city in an attempt to discover what aid was available to women in need. A serial that followed was a fictionalized account of "How I Got My Husband and How I Lost Him", which echoed her less than successful, though amiable marriage to <embed src="http://update.videoegg.com/flash/proxy.swf?jsver=1.4" FlashVars="gc=c2hvd

Pancho Villa was already known throughout the world when Treadwell went to Mexico. He had fought in the revolution of 1910-11 against Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz. Following the exile of Diaz, the Presidency was assumed briefly by fair elections by the leader who had orchestrated the revolution, Francisco Madero. In 1913, Madero's supposed ally General Victoriano Huerta seized the Presidency and assassinated Madero. Villa would ally himself with another revolutionary leader named Venutsiano Carranza in opposition of this new government. The ousting of Huerta led to more conflict, as Carranza took the presidency and a rift developed between him and his former allies Pancho Villa and Emmiliano Zapata. The recognition of Carranza's government by the United States infuriated Villa, and prompted him to stage raids on U.S. border towns (Tuck). The most famous of these was his attack on the New Mexico town of Columbus in 1916 in which several American troops and civilians were killed. Now hunted by both Mexican and American troops, Villa and his loyal "banditos" gained fame for their wily and elusive guerrilla tactics. Meanwhile, Carranza's government floundered and finally collapsed in 1920. While trying to escape the country, Carranza's train, loaded with money and government officials and their families, was attacked, forcing Carranza to flee into the mountains. He was assassinated during this flight by followers of a local bandit-turned-general named Rodolfo Herrero (Tuck).

Because of her background and her love of Spanish culture, the Mexican officials deemed Treadwell simpatico (Dickey 10), and as a result she was able to gain access to important stories. Ten days after the assassination of Carranza, Sophie Treadwell offered the first account of his attempted flight, and of the subsequent investigations into the identities of his assassins . These were lengthy and detailed stories which were run on the front page of the Tribune. Shortly thereafter she was granted the first interview with the new President of Mexico, Alvaro Ombregon (Wynn 62). In these interviews Ombregon revealed his policy towards the United States, and as such were important (Wynn 73). Treadwell's growing reputation as an expert on Mexico led to several feature articles on that country. It was Treadwell's point of view in those articles that America underestimated greatly the importance of relations between the U.S. and Mexico: views which in light of Mexico's huge oil and mineral reserves were ahead of their time (Wynn 62).

Around the same time, Villa and his followers were making moves to strike a pact with the government of Mexico. On the 28th of July, 1920, Villa signed a peace treaty in which he pledged to cease military activity (Tuck 178). Under the terms of the bargain, Villa was to be allowed to retire to a remote hacienda deep in the hills of Durango called Canutillo. It was here a year or so later that Treadwell would spend four days with the Centaur of the North. Treadwell would return to the U.S. with the epithet "La Amiga de Mexico" for her sympathetic reporting (Heck-Rabi 11).

That a woman of that time would endeavor to undertake such a dubious journey into the hills of Durango is remarkable enough. That she was able to do it at all was certainly due to her reputation as a person who was righteous and sensitive in her dealings with the Mexicans (simpatico). For indeed all other newsmen were turned away at the border. The following account, written for a publication from 1936 called Ladies of the Press, attests to the special consideration granted to Treadwell by Villa;

broken and further violence was threatened. But on her previous

trip, Miss Treadwell had rolled up that priceless newspaper asset,

goodwill, and so she was able to arrange an interview with the bad