Who shot pancho villa?
In 1920, Villa negotiated peace with new President Adolfo de la Huerta and ended his revolutionary activity. He went into semi-retirement, with a detachment of 50 of los dorados for protection, at the hacienda of El Canutillo [9]. He was assassinated three years later (1923) in Parral, Chihuahua, in his car. The assassins were never arrested, although a Durango politician, Jesus Salas Barraza, publicly claimed credit. While there is some circumstantial evidence that Obregon or Plutarco Elías Calles was behind the killing, Villa made many enemies over his lifetime, who would have had motives to murder him.[10] Today Villa is remembered as a folk hero. In 1926 grave robbers decapitated his corpse. [11] His skull has yet to be found. Villa’s original death mask resided in El Paso, Texas until the 1970s, when it was sent to the Museo de la Revolucion in Chihuahua; other museums have ceramic and bronze copies. [12] You could get more information from the link below…
