Thread: Family of Pancho Villa assassin awaits reward

Family of Pancho Villa assassin awaits reward
Francisco "Pancho" Villa was killed in an ambush in a Mexican border town almost 85 years ago, but one of his assassins says the United States never paid a promised reward, The Dallas Morning News reports.

MarÃ*a Fernanda Carrillo Sáenz Pardo, 28, says her grandfather, José Sáenz Pardo, was one of the men who ambushed the Mexican revolutionary. The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City says the U.S. government offered no reward. It said a resolution authorizing a $50,000 bounty was introduced in Congress but never passed.

"At this stage, it's a question of honor," Sáenz Pardo tells the newspaper. "We want the United States to make good on its word. They wanted Villa, dead or alive. We fulfilled our end of the bargain."

(Photo of Villa taken between 1908 and 1919 by National Photo Company Collection. Provided by Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, [LC-DIG-npcc-19555])

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/20 ... panch.html

"At this stage, it's a question of honor," Sáenz Pardo tells the newspaper. "We want the United States to make good on its word. They wanted Villa, dead or alive. We fulfilled our end of the bargain."

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