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Santitos Garcia - Los Milperos

Santitos Garcia

This corrido takes place in 1979 in the pueblo of Tepetixtla, Guerrero. Santitos Garcia was on his way to his orchard and two men waited there for him to kidnap his daughter. He grabbed his machete to defend his daughter. Lucina demanded that the men respected her father and that she would go with them if they left her father alone. Bartolo y Cirilo Juarez shot and killed him defending his daughter. They took Lucina after they killed Santitos Garcia.

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Label Discos EDM

Catalog Number LP-1064

Recording Format 33

Composer Rodriguez De Jesus, Malaquias

Genre Corrido

Subjects death, murder, man, kidnap, lament, reflection

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Performer Los Milperos

Performer Listed on Media Los Milperos

Composer Rodriguez De Jesus, Malaquias

Recording Format 33

Side: A

Subject death, murder, man, kidnap, lament, reflection

Track Number 4

Album title El Diablo Verde - Mas Corridos Guerrerences

Label Discos EDM

Catalog Number LP-1064

Genre Corrido

Location of Label:

Balderas 32 desp. 203 - Mexico, D. F.

Staff Notes: This corrido takes place in 1979 in the pueblo of Tepetixtla, Guerrero. Santitos Garcia was on his way to his orchard and two men waited there for him to kidnap his daughter. He grabbed his machete to defend his daughter. Lucina demanded that the men respected her father and that she would go with them if they left her father alone. Bartolo y Cirilo Juarez shot and killed him defending his daughter. They took Lucina after they killed Santitos Garcia.

Donated By: Chris Strachwitz

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Also on this Media

Side A

1. El Diablo Verde

2. Pedro El Chicharron

3. Mario Gris

4. Santitos Garcia

5. La Sota De Oros

Side B

1. El Paso De La Canoa

2. Zenaido El Chorreado

3. Hector Bustamante

4. Luto En El Platanar

5. El Barranqueño

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