"[1] In addition, it is mentioned in the official webpage that the Charro Days festival was also created to bring people together during the effects of the Great Depression.
[2] Although not proven, it is rumored that the first “unofficial” Charro Days was realized in the early to mid-1800s, when people from the city of Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Tamaulipas, just across the Rio Grande in Mexico, came together to celebrate a cooperative cultural festival to honor the two nations.
The four-day festival has daily parades, food stands and music, people dancing[4] in the street, boat races, fireworks, bull fights, and a rodeo in Brownsville and in its sister city of Matamoros.
Sombrero Fest, a three-day Washington Park street party with food, popular rock, country and Tejano performers, was added in 1986.
The Mr. Amigo Review Award remains on exhibit at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. as a model of bi-national friendliness between these two countries.