Police chiefs, mayors and other leaders must learn they can no longer discredit a movement by just pointing out that the Brown Berets, or any other militant group, are involved. The importance of this is that a year it would be impossible to find Mexican-American parents hobnobbing with Brown Berets. In the traditionally quiet town of Pomona, for instance, a crowd of Mexican-American parents, not known for their civic participation, recently applauded Brown Beret speakers. This mood is not being helped by our political and law-and-order leaders who are trying to discredit militants in the barrios as subversive or criminal. This may sound scandalously alarming but the mood in the barrio seems to back it up. Carlson Poems celebrating Hispanic culture are the focus of this collection. Rodriguez translated from the English by Lori M.
Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 229: bato/vato loco Crazy-acting male (usually refers to a Latino in general and a Chicano in particular). Carlson - Bato loco / Ramon del Castillo - 'Race' politics Politica 'racial' / Luis J. Guy who will do anything loco means crazy. Recently, a front-page story appeared, in of all places, the Wall Street Journal, which warns of possible violence in the Southwest’s Chicano barrios.Īccording to the newspaper, Jose Angel Guitierrez, a Texas Chicano activist who holds a master’s degree in political science, said that “It’s too late for the gringo to make amends. Rodriguez translated from the English by Lori M. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for EL CORRIDO DEL BATO LOCO (Region 1 DVD,US Import. Stripped of his potential political power-and that, after all, is what barrio and ghetto social innovations produce-the bato loco has no way to go but to the dangerous shell of an anarchistic zoot suiter. Now he knows the heat is on and that such projects are being condemned by political and law-and-order leaders as subversive and money-wasting. But to the bato loco in the barrio this frustration is a luxury which he cannot afford and does not understand.Īll the bato loco knows is that things were looking up for a while and that unlike his zoot-suiter predecessor he could get involved in such projects as the Neighborhood Adult Participation Project. It is easy to understand the silent majority’s frustration with high taxes, disrespectful militancy and seemingly unending social innovations. “He gives you an inch and takes away a yard.” “The gabacho (white man) never really changes,” a bato loco said recently. an affectionate nickname for a ‘crazy’ (fellow) Spanish-American.The economy slowdown, the lingering Vietnam War and surging “hard hat” militancy are beginning to strip the bato loco of his newly gained social conscience.
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n.p.: Skillfully adapting with ease to such characters as ‘Joe’, the city bus driver who’s seen everything, or ‘Chuy’ el bato loco, breaking into a house.Ĭasa Zapata 🌐 At the top of the mural, Michelangelo’s Adam has been transformed into a Chicano bato loco, cigarette in hand, ashes ready to fall, complete with a tear tattoo and pachuco cross.Ģ. Rodríguez Always Running (1996) 6: I jumped over peeling fences, fleeing vatos locos, the police or my own shadow.Īustin Chronicle (TX) 25 Nov. 304: Your friends know you to be a vato loco, a crazy guy, and they call you ‘ese,’ or ‘vato’ There is no school for a vato loco. in America 392: In Calo terminology a human being is either an escuadra, a law-abiding person, or he is a vato loco, one who spends a reasonable amount of time in jail for stealing and handling dope.
Steiner La Raza 119: Vato Loco is untranslatable, meaning something like ‘crazy mixed-up kids’.Ĭ.G.
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