Word: haciendados
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...gaudy life that spans the Revolution. He remembers himself as a barefoot boy in Veracruz blasting the face off a frock-coated oppressor with a shotgun; as a fugitive in Sonora; as a liberator on horseback defeating the federal artillery. He takes a hacienda for the people and the haciendado's daughter for himself. He becomes a general, begins to enrich himself. The betrayals are multiple, and by the time Fuentes lets his old renegade die, impotent for all his mines, hotels, real estate and 15 million Yankee dollars in European banks, he has all but danced with rage...
When first seen in Viva Villa, Pancho (Phillip Cooper) is a ten-year-old peon brat watching the underlings of a haciendado beat the life out of Villa Sr. He shoots the flogger, scampers into the hills. He is next to be observed grown up into Wallace Beery, head of a plundering horseback gang, with a lieutenant named Sierra (Leo Carillo) and a childlike appetite for shootings and hangings. When Francisco Madero (Henry B. Walthall), who was historically Mexico's president from November 1911 to February 1913. appears on the scene he realizes Villa's usefulness, invites...
...from Sykes and starts for Mexico City with five friends and a hangover. This time he fights without regard for niceties. Prisoners of war he ties together and shoots down in lots of three, to save bullets. He administers a beating to Teresa del Castillo, sister of a haciendado who had supported Madero but refuses to support Villa. He takes Chihuahua by storm and executes General Pascal by smearing him with honey, feeding him to ants. He marches into Mexico City at the head of an army of 60,000. Rather than bother with a budget...
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