Pancho Villa
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After Moctezuma and Benito Juarez, Pancho Villa is considered the most widely known Mexican throughout the world. He is seen as a Robin Hood, bandit, killer, womanizer, and since 1812, the only foreigner to have invaded, attacked, and killed Americans inside our borders.
One of the few things about Villa's life which most historians agree to is that he was born in 1878, in the state of Durango, on the Rancho de la Coyotoda, owned by the Lopez Negrete family. His sharecropper parents who lived on this hacienda were, Agustin Arango and Micaela Arambula. His baptismal name was Doroteo Arango.
The legends begin on September 22, 1894 when he was sixteen years old. According to Villa years later, as he dictated his autobiography to his secretary, Manuel Bauche Alcalde, "this is when the tragedy of my life begins." After his father died, Doroteo became the head of his family, working as a sharecropper on the Hacienda de Gogojito. Coming home from work one day he found his mother and the ranch owner arguing. The ranch owner apparently wanted Arango's 15-year old sister...