Pancho Villa Case

Pancho Villa was and still is a popular person among all Mexicans. When Pancho

Villa’s name is mentioned in the United States majority of the time people recognize his name.

Pancho Villa was born with the name Doroteo Arango. He grew up in Juan Del Rio Durango, Mexico where at age 16 he killed a man who raped his younger sister. Due to his vicious act,

Doroteo changed his name to Pancho Villa to evade arrest. Pancho Villa was known as a revolutionist, bandit, and an advocate for the poor.

Pancho can be considered our nowaday bandit Robin Hood due to their common actions. As a young child, Pancho Villa grew tired of the labor and started to rebel. He grew up surviving on his own, then later became an influence to other men to pull crimes with him. Pancho led a band of bandits robbing banks , stealing cattle, murders, and also stealing money from those who are very wealthy. He was able to easily get away from arrests due to his movements in the mountains of Mexico.

With so much success of escaping officers, Villa was looked up to by other revolutionists.

He caught the attention of Francisco Madero, a revolutionist who never liked the Dictator of Mexico, Porfirio Diaz. Both of them teamed up and eventually drove out the dictator into exile.

Since that battle Pancho engaged in many more battles which shaped a lot of Mexico’s history.

After several battles Pancho Villa negotiated a retirement with the new president Adolfo De La Huerta giving him a “Haciendo El Canutillo”.

Villa became admired by the poor. He was popular and appreciated because he gave his earnings to the poor. Mostly everything he gave to the poor came from what he took from the rich