Word: gitano
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MEXICO Homicidal Hero When a killer is captured in Mexico, corridas (streetcorner ballads) often glamorize him in heroic verse. Last week Mexicans sang a new corrida,. It was about El Gitano ("The Gypsy"), suspected of assassinating the Governor of Sinaloa, bearded, music-loving Rodolfo T. Loaiza...
Said Stanza I: In Mazatlán, a tall man masked like the other dancers at fhe Carnival ball shot jovial Loaiza through the head. Two Americans were murdered when they tried to prevent the man's escape. Rodolfo Valdez, 28, known as El Gitano, took to the hills...
Said Stanza II: For a year El Gitano's gang, beloved by the local peasantry, eluded all searching parties. Finally, Mexico's President Manuel Avila Camacho sent a general to Sinaloa. The general carried the President's promise: if El Gitano would surrender, he would not be shot. Flattered, El Gitano agreed...
Like Goya, he is an artist close to the bull ring. He loves lean people whom adventure has brightened and blooded, who wear a jewel in their eyes. Gypsies from the hills, Gitano dancers, wild wandering singers, toreadors. These are his friends, But Zuloaga's conception of his art is less dramatic in spirit, less passionate and more pictorial. Much of his work is portraiture but of a type that, allowing for differences of technique, is more like that of Velasquez than of Goya in vividness. The U. S., during the ensuing weeks, will have the opportunity of analyzing...