Pancho Villa Questions?
Doroteo Arango Arámbula (June 5, 1878 – July 20, 1923), better known as Francisco or “Pancho” Villa, was the first Mexican Revolutionary general. According to one version of his life story, at the age of 16 he shot an older man, the son of a big landowner, who had tried to rape Pancho’s younger sister. After this, being pursued for murder, he escaped. During the following years, he first lived as an outlaw, then worked his way up to a position as commander of a division. Not many details are known about these years. As commander of the División del Norte (Division of the North), he was the veritable caudillo of the Northern Mexican state of Chihuahua; which, given its size, mineral wealth, and proximity to the United States of America, gave him great popularity. Villa was also provisional Governor of Chihuahua in 1913 and 1914. While he was prevented from being accepted into the “panteòn” of national heroes until some twenty years after his death, today his memory is honored by Mexican
