PBS Launches A New Series: “The Children of the Revolución”

Jan. 17, 2011 - PRLog -- News Release
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PBS Launches A New Series:  “The Children of the Revolución”
Masterminded by Lionel and Kathy Sosa, Advertising World Legends and Artists

San Antonio, TX, Monday, January 17, 2011 – This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution. To learn the stories of Mexicans who escaped a violent, war-ravaged homeland and jumpedstarted the Latinization of Texas and the Southwest, tune into KLRN at 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, January 30.

During this time slot every Thursday, PBS will air stories about Mexicans who revolted in 1910 against the 31-year dictatorship of then President Porfirio Díaz and how thousands of Mexican families fled and found peace and opportunity in Texas and the Southwest.  Friends and family members from Mexico and other Latin American countries soon followed further boosting the positive Latinization of America.

“It’s amazing that our history books in Texas do not include information about the mass exodus of people and families who left Mexico because of the revolution and moved to Texas for a better life,” says Kathy Sosa, a renown advertising professional, a Texas Artist and the originator of the concept to capture and tell the stories on a KLRN series called, “The Children of the Revolución.”  

“People who really understand the significance of the Mexican Revolution and its positive impact on Texas are those who have family members or friends who lived during that time period and have stories to tell about the experience,” she says.  

During Hispanic Heritage Month last year, KLRN aired in San Antonio four stories about descendants of people who uprooted their families, escaped the Mexican Revolution, and re-established rewarding lives in San Antonio. Lionel Sosa, a legend in the advertising world and now a painter along with his wife, Kathy Sosa, is the engaging host and executive producer of “The Children of the Revolución series.  

“Some of Mexico’s finest families fled Mexico during the revolution comprising the first huge wave of Mexicans to arrive and settle in Texas, and we are fortunate to be able to interview their descendants and tell their stories on KLRN,” Sosa says.  “The first stories we told last year were so popular that we are producing 20 new stories this year and they will begin to air this Thursday.”

Sosa said that the series has been offered to the 13 PBS stations in Texas, and Houston and Austin have already committed to running the series.  Also, KLRN board members are pushing to air the stories across the nation on PBS stations.

“We started our series of stories featuring prominent San Antonians including Dr. Ricardo Romo, president of UTSA; Dr. Henry G. Cisneros former mayor of San Antonio, former HUD secretary and today president and CEO of City View; Charles Barrett, owner of several car dealerships, including Barrett Jaguar; and Dr. Robert Treviño, who practices internal medicine,” Sosa says.  These prominent men are children of the Mexican Revolution and their stories can be seen online at http://video.klrn.org/video/1613493631/.

The producers of “The Children of the Revolución” are Jesús Ramirez, Alejandro Maya and Jorge Conde, owners and partners of My Story, a company that specializes in helping people to tell stories in high definition video.  Storytellers include corporate CEOs with messages to inform and inspire employees; individuals who want to leave wills, advice and family information to their children that will serve long after they pass; as well as Moms who want to leave recipes of favorite foods for their children.

“For the sake of all American children and their children, someone has to explain when and why Mexicanos came in droves to the United States, and why today 70 percent of all Hispanics in our nation have roots in Mexico,” Sosa says.  “You cannot find stories about children of the Mexican revolution in our history books.  This is something that is not taught in school.  But thanks to KLRN, now everyone will be able to watch the stories and learn more history on PBS television and online.”

Sosa says he is grateful to KLRN in San Antonio for launching the series last year, for committing a full year of prime time to the series this year, and to the funders of “The Children of the Revolución” series, including the Elizabeth Coates Foundation, Anheuser Busch and the Texas Dow Employees Credit Union which together put up the seed funding for this project.

For more information about Lionel Sosa, visit www.lionelsosa.com.  For information about Kathy Sosa, visit www.kathysosa.com.

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Lionel and Kathy Sosa, renowned advertising professionals and artists, tell the stories of the finest families who fled war-ravaged Mexico 100 years ago during the Mexican Revolution. These stories are not in history books, but now will be shown on PBS.