cholo

Now he runs his own talent management and production company, Suspect Entertainment, hiring out himself and other reformed Hispanic - or 'cholo' - gangsters to play the kind of roles they once had for real.

The term 'cholo' refers specifically to a member of a social group that is a contemporary extension of the pachuco.

For example, students were asked to note the differences between the bandido character from the 1948 film ‘The Treasure of the Sierra Madre’ and the 'cholo' from the 1997 film ‘187’.

The 'cholo' challenged his oppression with gun in hand.

In urban Latino neighborhoods, adolescents may conflict with their parents if they assume 'cholo' identities.

Some interioranos grade imperceptibly into an acculturated native American population known pejoratively as 'cholos' , who refer to themselves as naturales.

The 'cholos' baptized their clubs in Spanish, just because the banda was in vogue.

Members of a second broad, intermediate category are labeled mestizos, 'cholos' (a disparaging term), or nonindigenous.

La Fabricia's conduct in public - that is, her refusal to interact with other 'cholos' aside from El Saico - makes it apparent that something is going on between the two.

In 1996, a breathtaking Los Angeles Times exposé on the 18th Street Gang, which included descriptions of innocent bystanders being murdered by laughing 'cholos' (gang members), revealed the rate of illegal-alien membership in the gang.