美国国家公共电台 NPR 墨西哥裔美国超级英雄在漫画中拯救乌克兰平民（在线收听）

Mexican American superhero saves Ukrainian civilians in comic book issue

墨西哥裔美国超级英雄在漫画中拯救乌克兰平民

For the better part of a decade, the Mexican American superhero created by Héctor Rodríguez has helped immigrants along the U.S.-Mexico border fight Mexican cartels, corrupt officials and human traffickers.

在十年的大部分时间里，赫克托·罗德里格斯（Héctor Rodríguez）创造的墨西哥裔美国超级英雄帮助美墨边境的移民对抗墨西哥卡特尔、腐败官员和人口贩子。

Now Mexico's refusal to criticize Russia or support Ukraine has prompted the comic book creator to send "El Peso Hero" to war-torn Ukraine.

现在，墨西哥拒绝批评俄罗斯或支持乌克兰，这促使这位漫画创作者向饱受战争蹂躏的乌克兰派遣了“El Peso Hero”。

"It's El Peso Hero saying, 'Well, if the president of Mexico is not able to be there, El Peso Hero will be,' " Rodríguez told NPR about the special 18-page free online issue he published last month. "It's a callback toward Captain America and Superman during World War II and helping GIs, or helping the citizens in Europe."

罗德里格斯在谈到他上个月出版的18页免费在线专刊时对NPR表示：“这是埃尔·佩索·英雄在说，‘好吧，如果墨西哥总统不能出席，埃尔·佩索·英雄将出席。’”。“这是对二战期间美国队长和超人的一次回敬，是对帮助美国士兵或帮助欧洲公民的一次。”

The character, whose real name is Ignacio Rivera, turned an insult into a superhero name after a border agent compared him to a devalued Mexican peso. Rodríguez insists El Peso Hero is just a regular guy doing good deeds, even if he does have superhuman strength and bulletproof skin.

这个角色的本名是伊格纳西奥·里维拉（Ignacio Rivera），在一名边境特工将他比作贬值的墨西哥比索后，他将侮辱变成了超级英雄的名字。罗德里格斯坚称，埃尔佩索英雄只是一个做好事的普通人，即使他确实拥有超人的力量和防弹皮肤。

"He wears very simplistic clothes. You know, he has his blue jeans, cowboy boots. And so he looks like a regular, you can even say jornalero, a farmworker, every day guy," the author said.

作者说：“他穿着非常简单的衣服。你知道，他穿着蓝色牛仔裤和牛仔靴。所以他看起来像一个普通人，你甚至可以说他是一个农场工人，每天工作。”。

By day, Rodríguez is a bilingual primary school teacher based in Dallas with family on both sides of the border. He first started publishing El Peso Hero in 2011, in an effort to show positive Latinx representation in the comic book medium. He says that more than 5,000 printed copies sold in the first year alone.

白天，罗德里格斯是达拉斯的一名双语小学教师，他的家人在边境两边。2011年，他首次开始出版《El Peso Hero》，以期在漫画媒介中展现积极的拉丁美洲代表性。他说，仅第一年就售出了5000多份印刷品。

For his latest adventure, the superhero travels to the besieged city of Mariupol — where he lifts a tank to rescue a trapped Ukrainian family, deflects Russian bullets, finds a missing Red Cross volunteer and diverts a gas attack.

在他的最新冒险中，这位超级英雄前往被围困的马里乌波尔市，在那里他举起一辆坦克，救出一个被困的乌克兰家庭，偏转俄罗斯子弹，找到一名失踪的红十字会志愿者，并转移了一次瓦斯袭击。

Rodríguez says it's part of tradition of comic book characters fighting for just causes and giving a voice to the voiceless.

罗德里格斯说，这是漫画人物为正义而战、为无声者发声的传统的一部分。

"In this case, it is the Norte?o Mexican-American superhero, no matter what culture, no matter what language they speak, it's a very unifying moment that we were all in this together, there's always a force of good," added Rodríguez, who asks readers to donate to UNICEF's relief fund for Ukrainian children. "We have a responsibility as citizens of this world, especially when it comes to humanitarian help."

Rodríguez补充道：“在这种情况下，是北美墨西哥裔美国超级英雄，无论他们是什么文化，无论他们说什么语言，这是一个非常团结的时刻，我们都在一起，总是有一股善的力量。”他请读者向联合国儿童基金会的乌克兰儿童救济基金会捐款。“我们作为世界公民有责任，特别是在人道主义援助方面。”

The audio version of this story was produced by Marc Rivers and Milton Guevara, and edited by Olivia Hampton and Reena Advani.

这个故事的音频版本由马克·里弗斯（Marc Rivers）和米尔顿·格瓦拉（Milton Guevara）制作，并由奥利维亚·汉普顿（Olivia Hampton）和瑞娜·阿德瓦尼（Reena Advani）编辑。

A version of this story originally appeared in the Morning Edition live blog.

这个故事的一个版本最初出现在早间版的直播博客中。