Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Most Mexicans Have No Clue Who Cesar Chavez Is

The title in Spanish of the new biopic movie about Cesar Chavez sums up just how little known the Mexican-American labor leader is in Mexico.

The movie that opened Thursday, Labor Day in Latin America, is called "The Mexican who defied the United States," with a subtitle that translates as "Who the hell is Cesar Chavez?"

That Chavez is barely known in Mexico shocks most Americans. That he was a U.S. civil rights hero with streets, schools, parks and a day in his honor surprises many Mexicans. Most of the moviegoers interviewed before an afternoon showing of film . . .

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