Word: sinaloa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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 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...
...shooting people) between his mother, his beautiful Japanese wife, his many sweethearts. A real mujeriego (wolf), it took him only a few days to bring any woman under the 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...
...been moving towards Mexico City from the jungles of southeastern Yucatan and the arid hills of northwestern Sonora. The torches, symbols of freedom, were supposed to reach the capital for the Day of Revolution, Nov. 20. But last fortnight one torch was extinguished. Padding through a little village in Sinaloa, the torchbearer was arrested as an arsonist...