The Mexican Cultural Institute has a small museum and is open to the public. Do check their website for days and times. The posters are from a shop on the east side of Olvera. Pictured are Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata.
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Villa is the only person to attack and murder Americans before the Al queda horror of September 11, 2001 on American soil. Mostly, Americans, looking back at Villa do so with a smile. Not that the smile is with the understanding that those 20 odd people killed in Columbus New Mexico had done anything to Villa. He killed them, sacked or destroyed a Coca Cola bottling plant and did other damage. Today, in Columbus, there is a Pancho Villa Park and a statue of Villa. Even more oddly, school children from Mexico are picked up by a Columbus school district bus, carried across the border and educated in the Columbus school system. This author hopes that in a century from now, there are no "nods & winks" about the events of September 11th.
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