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Updated Wednesday, 7April2021-10: 54

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  • Legends The Spanish bandits: how to defy the law on horseback and blunderbuss in hand

Few figures in a country capable of dealing with the smallest event enjoy as much unanimity in the popular accretion as the popularity of

Curro Jiménez

.

Hero of the people,

Robin Hood

-another bandit- patriotic and iconic character of the national ideology.

But were the bandits really vigilantes against power?

Were they defenders of the people?

How much of myth and how much of reality?

«Romantic literature completely distorts the image of the highwayman, that they rob the rich to give themselves

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