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Word: gitano (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Stanza III: Last week El Gitano, held in the fortress of Santiago Tlaltelolco, had implicated important people in Loaiza's murder, was the hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Homicidal Hero | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

...spell of his green eyes. For fun he liked to shoot at the jars carried on the lovely heads of Sinaloa maidens, sportively drenching them with water. Only once did he ever miss. He killed a girl instead of hitting the daisy she was putting in her hair. El Gitano wept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Homicidal Hero | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

Prosaic Thriller. The prosaic facts about El Gitano were as exciting as the corrido. He was the leader of an outlaw-band which often held up big mining companies on pay day, distributed the payroll to poor mountaineers. An illiterate former peon, El Gitano paid his debts by holding out a huge roll of bills. Creditors took what they liked. His "G," scrawled on a .38 bullet, was a safe-conduct pass through Sinaloa's lonely hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Homicidal Hero | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

...excellent horseman, El Gitano went on foot in the mountains to escape detection. In town he would throw off his rags, dress immaculately, ride in taxis. El Gitano began his shooting career when bandits killed his father, raped his sister. Since then, he was credited with more than 100 murders, some for money, some "just for the hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Homicidal Hero | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

...week's end the balladeers were busy on a new corrido. In Guadalajara, Sinaloa Congressman Rosendo G. Castro had been shot and killed at a party given in his honor. But this time El Gitano was not the homicidal hero. He was safely under Government lock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Homicidal Hero | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

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