Texas Public Radio's Jack Morgan shares the story of San Antonio's Charreada.
There’s a kind of rodeo happening on San Antonio’s South Side that is hundreds of years in the making, has nothing to do with country music and barbecue, and everything to do with tradition. It’s called Charreada, which essentially means Mexican rodeo. Its similarity to western rodeos is only fleeting, and there are many differences.
The headquarters for this version of rodeo is back behind the Mission Marquee Plaza on Padre Lane at a place called the San Antonio Charro Association, where horsemen and women meet and ride in an arena built to accommodate this style of rodeo.