A pawn shop in El Paso, Texas claims to have Villa's trigger finger on display. Somebody severed Villa's head from his corpse in 1926, and nobody can say for sure where the skull has gone. Mexico itself has two grave sites where Villa is supposedly buried, or at least most of him....
Born in 1878, Pancho Villa's early years were defined by extreme poverty and odd jobs that he worked to support his family after the death of his father. Eventually, Pancho became a bandit, targeting rich local landowners who benefitted from the endemic corruption of President Diaz's regime....
Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary and guerrilla leader who fought against the regimes of both Porfirio Diaz and Victoriano Huerta and after 1914 engaged in civil war and banditry. Learn more about Villa’s life and revolutionary activities in this arti