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Tucson has a Pancho Villa statue downtown. Why? Well, because after the artist made it for Mexico, nobody in that country would buy it. But Tucson's City Council has been known to be extremely gullible for many, many years!



Our local Communists love the Pancho Villa statue! Here are members of Revolutionary Communist Party in 2004.

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Villa was a sort-of communist.
Or, at least, he played one for those communists in the press.

Worth a read - John Reed’s “Insurgent Mexico”
John Reed was a very fine writer, though a complete communist. His Mexico piece, full of humor both deliberate and inadvertent, sort of subverts his own ideas, because at every turn, reporting everything as he does, warts and all, it implicitly raises the question of whether these people can make a revolution work. And as Reed spoke Spanish well, it is unfiltered.

Reed met Villa often. And its completely clear that Villa would have got nowhere without extensive help (money) from Americans. For a couple of years there he was a sort-of American proxy.