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![]() In 1986 the Sombrero Festival was included to the list of main events during Charro Days to enrich the fiesta spirit throughout the city. Amigo), Verónica Castro (actress and singer), Lucha Villa (singer and actress), Angélica María (actress and singer), Silvia Pinal (actress), and José Sulaimán (businessman) among others. Amigo prize are: Mario Moreno/“Cantinflas” (comedian), Raúl Velasco (television personality), Armando Manzanero (composer and singer), Vicente Fernández (actor and singer), Juan Gabriel (composer and singer), Lola Beltrán (singer and the first female Mr. Some personalities that have accepted the Mr. Miguel Alemán, a former president of Mexico, became the first Mr. Amigo of the year has to be a role model for the Hispanic community by showing excellence in his/her personal and professional life, and also must be a Mexican citizen. Amigo Association was created by members of the Brownsville Chamber of Commerce in the early 1960s to promote international relations between the United States and Mexico. During the early 1950s the international bridges across the Rio Grande were open for all to cross and partake in festivities. The china poblana dress and the charro suit are among the most popular costumes worn during Charro Days. To encourage the wearing of regional costumes of Mexico, a booklet of patterns for Charro Days was issued in 1949 and featured drawings of women’s and men’s traditional apparel from Michoacán, Oaxaca, Yucatán, and Chiapas, as well as other regions of the country. Paramount News documented the first Charro Days celebration and released an approximately fifteen-minute colored motion picture that was shown throughout the Valley in spring 1938. The fiesta consisted of three parades, dances, races (motor and sail boat), a bullfight, a rodeo, a concert by the Banda de Artillería from Mexico City, a grand ball, and a Noche Mexicana (held in Matamoros). The event was named Charro Days in honor of the charros, “dashing Mexican gentlemen cowboys.” The first Charro Days celebration was held on February 24–27, 1938. In 1937, influenced by the Citrus Fiesta in Mission, Texas, and the opening of the port of Brownsville, Brownsville businessman Kenneth Faxon, known as the “father” of Charro Days, and selected members of the Pan American Round Table directed the local chamber of commerce to coordinate a committee to commemorate a fiesta and pre-Lenten festivity. Regardless of the harsh period of economic crisis left by the Mexican Revolution and World War I, border cities such as Brownsville continued growing during the early decades of the twentieth century. This festival commemorates the Mexican heritage of the area and bonds both Mexican and American sides of the Rio Grande. Charro Days is an annual fiesta celebrated in the city of Brownsville, Texas, during the latter part of February.
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