President Plutarco es parco Elias Calles' whimsical legacy:

His biznieto -- or great grandson -- José Antonio !!

"The Cadillac of cattle was a Japanese import to Texas"

Adapted from the San Antonio EXPRESS - NEWS, Wednesday, December 26, 2007. By John MacCormack. SA EXPRESS - NEWS staff writer. Front page.

PHOTO CAPTION:

"José Antonio Elias Calles, president of the HeartBrand Beef Co., brought three bulls and eight cows from Japan to start his heard[sic!] of Akaushi cattle on a ranch near Harwood."

Then:

"Americans drove Akaushi herd through a legal loophole."

"HARWOOD -- Years after some wily Americans had slipped a small herd of coveted Akaushi cattle out of Japan thorugh a tiny export loophle, José Antonio Elias Calles ran into one of their former owners in that country."

As Señor Calles tells us, the man had a message:

"He said at one point he had thought about coming to the United States and killing these people who had stolen our children."

Señor Calles is now, at age 44, the very man "who now manages the only herd of Akaushi outside Japan." He explains the Japanese love for these animals this way:

"They call these animals their children because they have such an important place in their society.

"They have a powerful mystique for the Japanese."

As reporter MacCormack explains:

"Calles, 44, [is] the great - grandson of Plutarco Elias Calles, the fomer Mexican president.

"Born in Mexico and educated in the United States, Calles has studied Japanese cattle and beef for almost two decades."