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Article: Pancho Villa rides again
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- November 13, 2006
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MEXICALI, Mexico -- In Douglas, Ariz., a hotel boasts being the
home of the ghost of Francisco "Pancho" Villa.
Not so.
Pancho Villa's ghost still haunts the full 2,000-mile border
between the United States and Mexico. And in recent months, he has
been rattling his cartridge belts.
In Mexicali, Packy's Bookstore has a dozen photographs of Villa
pegged to its walls. They're all for sale and are selling briskly,
thank you. The store also has the new "revisionist" biography of
Villa on order and sells children's books touting the noble deeds of
the man known affectionately as La Cucaracha (The Cockroach).
Much of the interest in Villa is because Nov. 20 is the
anniversary of the 1910 Mexican ...