{"id":7,"date":"2007-11-30T05:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T05:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediaforsocialchange.wordpress.com\/2007\/11\/30\/champions-of-the-people"},"modified":"2016-07-25T04:02:55","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T04:02:55","slug":"champions-of-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/2007\/11\/30\/champions-of-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions of the People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1277 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/jplarroque.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/super-amigos-documentary-promo.jpg\" alt=\"super amigos documentary promo\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/super-amigos-documentary-promo.jpg 600w, https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/super-amigos-documentary-promo-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nI was working at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santafefilmfestival.com\/\">Santa Fe Film Festival<\/a> last week. \u00a0There were lots of great documentaries up there, but my favorite was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santafefilmfestival.com\/\">Super Amigos<\/a>. It&#8217;s about luchadores (Mexican wrestlers) who serve as social advocates in Mexico City.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>There&#8217;s Super Barrio who fights slum lords and gentrification, Ecologistica is the environmentalist, Super Animal who beats up matadors, Super Gay battles homophobia, and Fray Tormenta runs an orphanage. \u00a0 Their costumes became a symbol for advocate groups to rally around. \u00a0Their wrestling antics attracted the media who, by videotaping the spectacles for the news, created more awareness of the social crisis at hand. \u00a0This further solidified the community.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The best part is that all of the Super Amigos consider themselves real super heroes. \u00a0Not even the authorities know the real identities of the men behind the masks. \u00a0Super Barrio made an\u00a0appearance\u00a0at the festival&#8217;s screening. \u00a0He remarked that he had some trouble getting through customs at the airport in his costume.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was working at the Santa Fe Film Festival last week. \u00a0There were lots of great documentaries up there, but my favorite was Super Amigos. It&#8217;s about luchadores (Mexican wrestlers) who serve as social advocates in Mexico City. There&#8217;s Super Barrio who fights slum lords and gentrification, Ecologistica is the environmentalist, Super Animal who beats &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[82,118,126],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-luchadores","tag-santa-fe-film-festival","tag-super-amigos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jplarroque.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}