The Legend of El Peso Hero

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The Legend of El Peso Hero collects origin stories:

El Peso Hero Origin: La Cueva de las Espadas

La Cueva de las Espadas, a cave with untold secrets, rests on the outskirts of Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico. Determined to discover a special selenite crystal housed inside the cave, Marine Lieutenant Ortega escorts a hostage, a revered Nobel Prize-winning scientist to help unleash the crystal's abilities. These actions unknowingly set into motion the creation of a border hero, El Peso Hero.

El Peso Hero Origin: Battle for Nuevo Laredo

Nuevo Laredo, Mexico is a bustling city and beacon of cultural and commercial crossroads on the Texas-Mexican border, where El Catrin and his cartel organization vie for control of the important intersection. The approaching arrival of military-grade weapons to the area will ensure El Catrin's dominance in the region. An informant leak leads Nuevo Laredo's Municipal police officer, Miguel Ramos to warn El Peso Hero about the upcoming shipment in the hopes

that he can stop El Catrin's solidification of power in Nuevo Laredo. It is up to the paladin of justice, the border protector, El Peso Hero to stop the shipment and confront El Catrin amidst social unrest in Nuevo Laredo.

El Peso Hero Origin: La Patrona

Washed ashore on the banks of the Rio Grande River El Peso Hero is rescued by immigrants. Suffering a concussion from the Battle for Nuevo Laredo, a group of day laborers befriend El Peso Hero and take him as one of their own. Moving through Mckallen, Texas undocumented El Peso Hero embarks on the journey of an everyday laborer. Across the border seeing her grandson, El Catrin, fail in securing Nuevo Laredo as a stronghold the matriarch of the family, La Patrona takes the reins of the business. Her first goal: to find and kill the man who humiliated El Catrin and upset the family cartel business in Nuevo Laredo.

El Peso Hero has been one the most internationally talked about Latino superheroes in decades. With modern social issues such as immigration, human trafficking, and institutional corruption, El Peso Hero have garnered attention and praise from the Latino community and has been featured on American Way and Texas Monthly Magazine, Univision, CNN, Telemundo, NPR, NBC, CBS and countless of other media sites worldwide.