Assassination of Pancho Villa
1923 · Event
Three years into a negotiated retirement on a hacienda — the revolution's last great survivor, farming with his old Dorados — Villa is ambushed in his car in Parral, hit by nine bullets. The gunmen serve token sentences; the orders, most historians conclude, came from the government he might yet have challenged.
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