The images still send a message
Regarding Yvonne Villarreal’s fine Nov. 30 article [“Revelatory Heroes of a Revolution”], these various artworks about the Mexican Revolution held many of the images still used by Mexican outlaws today; the skull with crossed bones or cutlasses; skeletons; devils; an hourglass and so on.
To “strike your colors,” then and now, was a way to show the world your standard and banner. In both cases the message is clear: “Mess with us at your own peril.”
Evan Dale Santos
Adelanto
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