Chucho el Roto

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Chucho el Roto , real name Jesús Arriaga (* 1858 in Santa Ana Chiuatempan , Tlaxcala , † March 25, 1894 in Veracruz , Veracruz ), was a legendary Mexican bandit . Scientifically interesting about the reception of his biography is, among other things, the question of whether famous bandits like Chucho serve as political and cultural models for deviation in Mexico up to the present day . His reputation as the “modern Robin Hood ” who stole from the rich and supported the poor goes back to the first literary descriptions that appeared three months before his (not fully understood) death.

Life

Chucho el Roto was imprisoned several times in the prison of San Juan de Ulúa and broke out twice.

In his youth Arriaga worked as a carpenter and as a young man in his adopted home Mexico City met Matilde Frizac, a young woman from the upper classes. They fell in love, but their father Don Diego Frizac was against their connection because of the class difference. However, Matilde was already pregnant and gave birth to a daughter.

Because he had no contact with his daughter, Arriaga planned to kidnap her, but was arrested and taken to Belén Prison in Mexico City. He was later transferred to the San Juan de Ulúa prison in Veracruz, which had a very dubious reputation for its inhumane conditions. After several unsuccessful attempts to escape, he succeeded in breaking out in 1885.

The imprisonment had changed the young man and radicalized him. He was able to overcome the very strong class barriers in Mexico. On the one hand, he preferred to rob jewelry stores and houses and villas of the rich upper class, but was just as capable of associating with these circles as a marriage swindler and seducer as he was as a poor craftsman.

He typically committed his crimes along the railway line between Veracruz , Puebla , Mexico City and Querétaro . After robbing a jeweler, he was arrested a second time on San Juan de Ulúa. He managed to break out again, but this time he was found on the run and detained again.

He was sentenced to 300 lashes for attempting to escape. Although Matilde paid for a reduction in the sentence, the injuries appeared to be so severe that Arriaga was admitted to the Marqués del Montes hospital in Veracruz, where he died soon afterwards on March 25, 1894 at the age of 36. A week after his death, the newspaper El Monitor Republicano brought the official version into play, according to which Chucho died of complications from dysentery .

At Matilde's request, his remains were transferred to Mexico City and buried there.

Afterlife

His life story has been the subject of radio novels and films , such as the drama El Tesoro De Chucho El Roto, which premiered in 1960 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Amy Robinson: Mexican Banditry and Discourses of Class: The Case of Chucho el Roto * . In: Latin American Research Review . 44, No. 1, 2009, pp. 5-33.
  2. ^ Marko Castillo: Chucho el Roto ( Spanish ) Universidad Veracruzana. Archived from the original on July 17, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 4, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uv.mx
  3. ↑ Chilango.com: Chucho "El Roto", artista del engaño (Spanish; article from October 11, 2011)
  4. ↑ El Universal Veracruz: ¿Quién fue Chucho el Roto? (Spanish; article of October 26, 2011)
  5. ↑ PelisMexicanas.com: El Tesoro De Chucho El Roto (Spanish; accessed August 17, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Chucho el Roto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arriaga, Jesús (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION mexican bandit
DATE OF BIRTH 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Ana Chiuatempan , Tlaxcala , Mexico
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1894
Place of death Veracruz , Veracruz , Mexico