Abstract

TORRES MIGUEL, Ricardo. The contrabandist charro: the social bandit figure in Luis G. Inclan's astucia. Sig. his [online]. 2010, vol.12, n.24, pp.45-63. ISSN 1665-4420.

The nineteenth century was plagued of social movements in Mexico and in the world; it is evident that it constituted the root than we understand of Mexico. The country lived his independence, was invaded, mutilated and whipped by fratricidal wars; was federal or centralist, conservative or liberal, it was empire, was republic, etcetera. All this long chaotic chain was for good or evil, which constructed to the Mexican nation of nowadays. It is for this reason that the Mexican nineteenth-century appeared, perhaps, like the most chaotic century in the history of the country; but in the middle of the chaos the figures, the names of those marginalized beings, who social history called social bandits.

Keywords : Astucia; social banditry; Mexico; Hobsbawm; nineteenth-century.