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Did an infamous narco kill Pancho Villa’s son in Matamoros back in the day?

Did an infamous narco kill Pancho Villa’s son in Matamoros back in the day?

The great part about local history, one of them anyway: How to separate fact from fiction?It’s like the old story about Al Capone spending some winters in the Rio Grande Valley (near Weslaco) in the late 1920s. While it may be true, although unlikely, there’s no real way to prove or disprove the Capone myth.No matter, it’s more fun to think that Scarface once hung out in Weslaco, much like today’s Snowbirds, enjoying the South Texas weather in January while the gangsters who worked for him were back home in Chi-town shivering, and/or killing members of “Bugs” Moran’s gang. (Capone ...

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