Políticas del cuerpo y la figura de Pancho Villa: Desde la exclusión nacional a la resurrección regional

Anne Marie McGee

doi:10.3989/aeamer.2010.v67.i2.513

Authors

Anne Marie McGee Indiana University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/aeamer.2010.v67.i2.513

Keywords:

Pancho Villa, Las Jornadas Villistas, Body Politics, Mexican Popular Celebrations

Abstract

Long excluded from the official pantheon of national heroes, Pancho Villa’s remains were finally moved to the Monumento a la Revolución in 1976. However, in 1994 the state of Chihuahua began an annual celebration, las Jornadas Villistas, which place Parral, Chihuahua as the center of Villa’s death cult. This study examines the regional reappropriation of Villa’s body and legacy through popular celebration and the placement of las Jornadas Villistas within the larger context of the politics surrounding the treatment of the general’s remains since the time of his 1923 assassination.

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