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See also Caló; Pachucos; Pocho
It was a political film that incorporated all of the standard characters that would appear in countless other films and novels of the Chicano experience: the wetback, the pocho (half Mexican), the coyote (smuggler) who smuggles people into the United States, and the grower Mister Sterling.
See also Agringado; Carpas; Pocho; El Teatro Campesino
Titles of some of these films are Soy Mexicano de Acá de Este Lado (I Am a Mexican from This Side) (1951), Los Desarraigados (The Uprooted) (1958), México de Mi Corazón (Mexico of My Heart) (1963), and El Pocho (The Half Mexican) (1964).
A Chicano who does not speak fluent Spanish may be said to speak pocho Spanish, but the reverse is never stated about a Mexican who cannot speak fluent English.