Why Durango’s new Alacranes jersey that commemorates Pancho Villa sparked controversy in the networks

To commemorate the 100 years of the death of Pancho Villaone of the most important characters of the Mexican Revolutionthe football club Durango Scorpionsof the MX Expansion League, presented a special edition sweater

Through the team’s social networks, we see a jersey in gold, brown and green tones, with the cherry-colored image of the so-called “Centauro del Norte” on a horse and official team sponsors.

It should be mentioned that the roots of the region with José Doroteo Arango Arambulahis real name is because Durango and the north of the country were under his rule. In addition, he was born in said entity on June 5, 1878, although he died in Chihuahua on July 20, 1923.

Scorpions announced that the cost of the shirt is 849 pesos and on sale since March 1st.

The team even used the uniform in their MX Expansion League game against Dorados de Culiacán, which they won 3-0 at home.

At the moment, the Scorpions are not doing very well in the Expansion League, as they are currently in tenth position with 10 units, far from the top positions.

Villa believed that President venusian carranza intended to sign a collaboration agreement with the government United States thataccording to the revolutionary, put in jeopardize Mexican sovereignty.

The pact never existed, but the “Centaur of the North” was convinced of it. For him, With his army known as La División del Norte, he decides to invade the United States.

The incident occurred on March 9, 1916, when some 600 soldiers from the Northern Division attacked the city ​​of columbusin New Mexico.

In retaliation, the US government sent over 5,000 troops to hunt him down. The number of soldiers doubled in a few days, but the expedition was unable to catch the revolutionary.

But beyond the design of the jersey, the presence of the character of the Revolution has unleashed controversialand even indignation, among many Internet users who consider that It’s a tasteless tribute.

And that’s what historians love Armand Herreraof the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores (ITES), pointed out that although the importance of Pancho Villa in the history of Mexico is understood, is a character who has also committed heinous crimes which run counter to the values ​​of a “just and democratic” society.

“Francisco Villa committed massacres, rapes and extreme cruelty, cut the education budget, confiscated food wealth and enriched himself at the expense of the people. Honoring their memory and forgetting the victims is neither appropriate nor fair.”he wrote on his networks on March 7 before a tribute in the state of Chihuahua.

“If they will know that it was a murderer and a thief romanticized by history?”, “What a beautiful tribute for a femicide”, “Shame on them; Too bad the design is pretty”, “I am sure that in Durango there must be several other characters who deserve to receive a tribute from the football team and not a bandit rapist”“What it’s like to not know the history and give a place to a criminal”, “Imagine that in 100 years a team from Tamaulipas, releases a jersey honoring the Zetas or the Gulf Cartel”, reads- we on Twitter.