Whats the influence of Chicanos in Mexico?
Carlos Tortolero of the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago wants to open a museum about Chicanos in Mexico City. I hope it happens because the Chicano influence in Mexico is very important. Mexicans living in the U.S. need some kind of recognition from Mexico City and from the entire country for that matter. I mean, they left the country to seek a better life and they’ve succeeded, through their own hard work. You’ll be speaking about soldaderas, why is it important to know about them? Anthony Quinn, you know the actor, his mother was a soldadera. He was Mexican American. In general women are cast aside. The soldaderas were called, galletas de capitan [captain’s cookies], colchon de tripa [pillows made out of guts], of the soldiers. Some were sent out to the front lines. Many picked up guns from dead soldiers and fought on. They’ve never been fully acknowledged. Undoubtedly without them soldiers would have deserted because the women cooked for them. In Mexico women are rarely re
