Francisco “Pancho” Villa was a bandit, an enigmatic general and a hero of the Mexican Revolution. Now his life and legacy are explored in the West Coast premiere of the experimental opera “Pancho ...

HBO has taken a little-known historical event and blown it beyond recognition in And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself, which premieres on HBO Cable Network at 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, September 7. The ...

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president on Tuesday praised Mexican revolutionary Francisco “Pancho” Villa for his 1916 attack on Columbus, New Mexico, a raid that killed 18 Americans, mostly civilians.

Dictators – whether in Spain, South Africa, Romania or Syria —retain power for decades. They can seem impregnable and invulnerable. But they always fall, and when they do fall the world acts surprised ...

TEXAS CITY — Pancho Villa's hard-riding vaqueros and the federal troops they vanquished 100 years ago during the violent Mexican Revolution are never far from Manuel Urbina's thoughts. Urbina, a ...

The Mexican Revolution of 1910, depicted in films and photos with Pancho Villa riding his ferocious horse Siete Leguas. Men and women with bullet belts criss-crossing their chests stood proudly for ...

There are all kinds of Mexican food in the United States. Arizona features Sonoran-style cooking. New Mexico debates red and green chilies. Cal-Mex mastered Baja’s seafood. My favorite, Tex-Mex, ...

On an August afternoon in 1918, a mysterious man approached the U.S.-Mexico border in the bustling town of Nogales. For decades, the boundary between the two countries had been little more than an ...