It was Pancho Villa’s most famous phrase and the one with which he is most remembered. Gabriel Rufian this Wednesday at the Congress of Deputies. The spokesman for Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC) stood in the corridor in front of journalists and reproduced a quote that he said “is useful” to explain the diplomatic crisis with the new president of the Central American country, Claudia Sheinbaum.
“Long live Mexico, you bastards!” Rufián said when asked about the Spanish government’s decision not to attend the inauguration of the Mexican president because Felipe VI was not invited.
To begin with, it should be noted that the word “cabrón” in Mexico is a daily way of calling friends. So, Villa Pancho He didn’t use it as an attack on anyone but as a song praising the revolutionaries.
In fact, this is the phrase with which he started the fights during the Mexican Revolution. It is also the phrase with which his assassins celebrated the ambush that killed him in 1923mockingly, by imitating him.
The story goes that Villa refused the escort of 50 men who usually protected him on his travels and was accompanied by only five, including General Trillo and his faithful assistant, Daniel Tamayo. I was driving to a baptism when a man wearing a palm tree hat, Juan López, waved and exclaimed “Long live the Villa!”.
It was also one of the classic cries of the revolutionary, but this time it had a different meaning. It was also the key phrase to call the attackers and indicate to them that the driver was slowing down. As he passed in front of the conspirators, one of them shouted the classic “Long live Mexico, you bastards” and he shot Pancho Villa 13 times in the chest.
