Meet 'El Peso Hero', A New Latino Comic Superhero, Who Fights Mexican Drug Cartels Oscar Lopez - Latin Times
go to original January 9, 2014

A new superhero has emerged in Mexico in the fight against organized crime. His is strong, brave and will take on any gangster. He helps migrants and is alwasy ready to confront drug cartels and corrupt policemen. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it Enrique Peña Nieto? Certainly not. It's Peso Hero, the main character in a new graphic novel by Hector Rodriguez who fights crime and works to end corruption on the Mexico-Texas border.

A teacher in an elementary school in Dallas, Hector Rodriguez, thought of the character after witnessing years of crime and unrest in Mexico and the United States. He used the comic as a way of inspiring his second graders at the bilingual Junkins Elementary School in Carrollton, particularly in writing classes. But the superhero has become something of an internet phenomenon, even garnering the attention of Sam de la Rosa, a graphic artist who worked on Spiderman, who is creating artwork for the comicbook cover free of charge.

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