Chucho el Roto

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

Life

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

Because of the contact with his daughter he was denied Arriaga planned her abduction, but was arrested and jailed by Belén in Mexico City. Later he was transferred to the prison of San Juan de Ulua in Veracruz, which had a very dubious reputation because of its inhumane prison conditions. After several unsuccessful escape attempts, he succeeded in 1885, the outbreak.

The prison was in the young man brings about a change and radicalized him. He was able to overcome the very strong in Mexico distinct class barriers. He robbed on the one side preferably jewelery shops and houses and villas of the rich upper class of, however, was to operate as a marriage swindler and deceiver in these circles as able as to give himself as a poor craftsman.

His crimes he committed typically along the railway line between Veracruz, Puebla, Mexico City and Querétaro. After a raid on a jeweler he was arrested a second time on San Juan de Ulua. Again he managed to escape, but he was this time already been on the run and re-imprisoned.

For the escape attempt, he was sentenced to a penalty of 300 lashes. Although Matilde paid for a reduction of the penalty, the injuries were apparently so serious that Arriaga was admitted to the hospital Marqués del Montes in Veracruz, where he soon after died on March 25, 1894 at the age of 36 years. The newspaper El Monitor Republicano brought a week after his death, still the official version into play, according to Chucho died from the effects of dysentery.

At the request of Matilde, his remains were transferred to Mexico City and interred there.

Afterlife

His life story became the subject of radio-novelas and films, such as the 1960 El Tesoro de Chucho drama premiered El Roto.