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 ...

MEXICO CITYMEXICO 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pop quiz: Who was Pancho Villa? Bandit? Revolutionary? “Bad hombre”? Guerrilla saint fighting for justice? Or a severely damaged man (probably lugging around a heavy case of post-traumatic stress ...

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 ...

The Vietnam conflict has been called the first television war, beaming visions of battlefield carnage directly into America’s living rooms. But the first cinematic war likely was the Mexican ...

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