Los vendidos.

Los Vendidos is a television adaptation of an acto first staged by El Teatro Campesino in 1967. The piece is set in Honest Sancho's Used Mexican Lot and Curio Shop, where various models of Chicano automatons (robots) are displayed for sale by Honest Sancho. Into his shop comes Miss Jimenez who represents the governor's office (at the time, Ronald Reagan's) and is in search of a Mexican type for the administration. Sancho escorts her around his shop and demonstrates various floor models (farm worker, Mexican revolutionary, pachuco, lowrider), activating them by snapping his fingers and giving vocal commands. None of these are acceptable to her. She wants a Mexican, yes, but it is more important that he be an American. She is about to leave when Honest Sancho urges her to view his newest model: a fresh, clean Mexican-American in a business suit and glasses, whom she instantly loves and purchases on the spot for $15,000 (a great deal of money in 1972). She drives off with him to the governor's banquet. Once she is gone, Sancho falls silent, and all the store models come to life. We learn that Sancho is the real automaton and all the others are Chicanos and Chicanas running a scam on fools who believe in robots. The acto is bracketed by opening and closing scenes on a pyramid, where many of the characters from ETC's actos are arranged, frozen in action. In the very center is the Aztec Calendar, whose painted face is that of Luis Valdez, founder and director of El Teatro Campesino. Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics