 Several times throughout the movie, The Cuban has to tell several  different characters that he is Cuban. This stems from a real life  debate between writer/director Christopher Compton and another  person where he argued that in Texas, people of Spanish, Latin, and  other Hispanic origins are widely mistaken as Mexican, due to the  proximity between Texas and Mexico. He felt that since the movie  took place in South Texas, he would express this by having The Cuban  continually being mistaken for Mexican.