Pachuco José | Y TÚ QUÉ

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WE ARE NOT ZOMBIES presenta Y TÚ QUÉ con PACHUCO JOSÉ

José Lara –Pachuco José– dejó El Salvador a principios de los ochenta. La guerra civil en ese país trastocó a su familia por lo que tuvo que emigrar a Estados Unidos. Este nuevo lugar no ofrecía una cara amable, pero pudo conocer a personas que por más de 25 años lo han acompañado y con las que ha construido una hermandad.

Quizá como una manera de escapar de la realidad, para José no existe un mejor momento que la primera mitad del siglo XX. La moda, el estilo, la música, las películas, los icónicos personajes, todos ellos elementos en los que encontró una forma de conectar con su vida presente. Hace música con su banda “Pachuco José y Los Diamantes”, una agrupación que se inspira en el rockabilly, el mambo, el boogie, y que entrega un momento de alegría y de diversión no sólo para aquellos que lo escuchan, también para sí mismo.

Y Tú Qué presenta a humanas y humanos apasionados por su quehacer, su conocimiento y su camino de vida, para inspirar y motivar a otros a hallar su propia pasión.

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Transcript
00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 My full name is Jose Leonidas Lara Lara.
00:14 I was born in El Salvador in 1967.
00:17 I came to the United States in 1981, I believe.
00:23 I left El Salvador because of the war
00:24 that we had, the Civil War, back in the 1980s
00:26 that claimed the lives of so many people.
00:30 When the war started, the Civil War started in El Salvador,
00:34 a lot of the people that were getting killed were students,
00:36 because this is where it all started.
00:38 They had a group called MERS, Movimiento Estudiantil
00:41 Revolucionario de Secundaria.
00:43 So the guerrillas were targeting the youth.
00:48 I was getting in trouble in El Salvador,
00:51 and my uncle was killed during the war.
00:56 And that's one of the reasons why my mom sent for me.
01:00 She was already here maybe a year or two here
01:02 in the United States, and they worked to get
01:05 enough money to send for me.
01:06 Back in the early 1980s, I started going to school,
01:13 and I was an innocent, naive teenager.
01:19 Then I got into junior high school,
01:21 then I started getting into some trouble.
01:23 People used to bully me at school, and then again,
01:27 I was naive.
01:28 I didn't like fighting.
01:29 But you were kind of pushed into defending yourself.
01:33 And then you get tired of people pushing you around.
01:35 So of course I had to learn to defend myself.
01:39 And then I met people that we became friends.
01:42 And this is where my homeboys, my barrio comes in.
01:46 Out of 125 guys, only 10 of us were Salvadoran,
01:50 everybody else was Mexican.
01:51 And we became like brothers.
01:53 And it's been about 28, 25 years that I met these guys,
01:59 and we're still close.
02:00 You know what I mean?
02:01 We're like a family.
02:02 It's kind of a sensitive subject because there's a lot of stuff
02:08 that I won't talk about.
02:10 I can't.
02:13 But we grew up in San Fernando Valley, Valle de San Fernando,
02:17 back in the '80s.
02:18 And we went on for years.
02:20 And we don't gang bang anymore, but we used to.
02:23 But we're older now, wiser, and we're
02:27 thankful that we're alive.
02:28 Some people did not make it.
02:30 People got killed.
02:33 My first wife asked me one time, it's either your gang or me.