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Word: abelardo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Hollywood made Viva Villa in 1934 with Wallace Beery as the famous border bandit, Mexicans liked it fine. After a preview of the film life of the hard-riding, hard-wenching revolutionary, President Abelardo Rodriguez asked only for deletion of scenes that showed Villa drunk. The changes made, the movie made Mexican box-office history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Villa Revisited | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

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