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Pancho and Shorty

By John Nova Lomax November 29, 2012

For 16 years, during every daylight hour of every Christmas Day, Richard Reyes, known as "Pancho Claus," would don a red-and-black zoot suit, shades and a fedora, stand in the bed of Sotero "Shorty" Villarreal's pickup truck and ride through the streets,... More >>>

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Sotero "Shorty" Villarreal says parting ways with Pancho Claus was the right and just thing to do. Others cast him as Santa's most resentful elf, jealous of the attention his former partner in barrio Christmas was so adept at attracting.

Richard "Pancho Claus" Reyes says that a lifetime of good works can be ruined by one man's hateful words damaging his reputation. For Reyes, that man is Shorty Villarreal.

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Sotero "Shorty" Villarreal says parting ways with Pancho Claus was the right and just thing to do. Others cast him as Santa's most resentful elf, jealous of the attention his former partner in barrio Christmas was so adept at attracting.

Marco Torres

Sotero "Shorty" Villarreal says parting ways with Pancho Claus was the right and just thing to do. Others cast him as Santa's most resentful elf, jealous of the attention his former partner in barrio Christmas was so adept at attracting.

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