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Culture-trafficking for the 21st century: meet the cross-cultural, postcolonial performer who takes on everyone from George W. to J-Lo. (Culture).

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The consummate politicized performance artist and radical linguist, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, has fearlessly explored and exposed the underbelly of American culture. In the 25 years since he emigrated to the U.S. from Mexico, he's crucified himself under the initials INS in his "gala mariachi rockero" suit, crashed Ellis Island as a "cybervato," and skewered everything from free trade to revolutionary tourism, Ricky Martin, and the ubiquitous Taco Bell Chihuahua.

His organization, La Pocha Nostra, (www.pochanostra.com) is currently involved in collaborative projects that connect the Chicano experience to the post 9/11 experience of British Pakistanis, Hindus, and ...

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