Pancho Pins and Buttons
Description: José Doroteo Arango Arámbula (San Juan del Río, Durango, México; 5 de junio (o probablemente el 5 de julio)de 1878 - Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, México; 20 de julio de 1923),4 más conocido por su seudónimo Francisco Villa o el hipocorístico de este, Pancho Villa, fue uno de los jefes de la Revolución mexicana,5 cuya actuación militar fue decisiva para la derrota del régimen del entonces presidente Victoriano Huerta
Description: Leave it to the poet laureate of Texas country to not only tell a story of betrayal, but to make the turncoat a sympathetic character. "Pancho and Lefty" is The Great Gatsby of country songs, conveying more about friendship, duplicity and guilt than most novels. In the song, the bandit Pancho Villa has been dispatched by the hangman's rope, but at least his suffering is over.
Description: Francisco (Pancho) Villa (born José Doroteo Arango Arámbula; 5 June 1878 – 20 July 1923) was a Mexican Revolutionary general and one of the most prominent figures of the Mexican Revolution. As commander of the División del Norte (Division of the North) in the Constitutionalist Army, he was the veritable caudillo of the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. Given Chihuahua's size, mineral wealth, and proximity to the United States of America, it provided him with extensive resources. Villa was also provisional Governor of Chihuahua in 1913 and 1914. Villa can be credited with decisive military victories leading to the ousting of Victoriano Huerta from the presidency in July 1914. Villa then fought his erstwhile leader in the coalition a...
