General Francisco (Pancho) Villa, D. W. Hoffman, ca. 1912. Dictators – whether in Spain, South Africa, Romania or Syria —retain power for decades. They can seem impregnable and invulnerable.

Photos of Pancho Villa’s fighting gamecocks in Calhoun Falls endure. In a grainy, soft focus, black and white image we see a Mexican in a suit and tie wearing what seems a Panama hat.

Raoul Walsh did more than play a young Pancho Villa in the 1914 film "The Life of General Villa" ("A Wild Ride Into Revisionism," by Chris Kraul, Aug. 3).

In 1959 the Marxist scholar Eric Hobsbawm introduced the concept of “social banditry” into the historical and sociological lexicon. Social bandits were sometimes fictional, sometimes real ...

In HBO's "And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself," Larry Gelbart delivers an ambitious script, based on the true story of a Hollywood film company lensing the pre-WWI Mexican Revolution, that makes ...

Viva Villa! is a corking western. It's a big, impressive production which sets out to make Wallace Beery's Pancho Villa appear as a somewhat sympathetic and quasi-patriotic bandit.

Pancho Villa raid memorial 'a day of contrasts' By Algernon D'Ammassa / Journal staff writer. Algernon D'Ammassa. Author email; Mar 9, 2025 Mar 9, 2025 Updated Mar 10, 2025; 2 min to read.

The U.S. Army's first use of trucks in a military operation was in the "Punitive Expedition" in pursuit of "Pancho" Villa into the mountains of northern Mexico in 1916.

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 civilians.