The Mexican Robin Hood

Me llamo Doroteo Arando. I am a Mexican outlaw by the name of Francisco "Pancho" Villa and this is my story...

I was born in San Juan del Rio, Mexico on June 5, 1878. My family owned a ranch and as early as I can remember, I was working with my parents around the house and on the rest of the ranch. Sadly we were being treated like slaves by the rest of society, it always made me angry to see mi papa work so hard to try and keep us alive and well... As I started into my teenage years I noticed my father becoming weaker and older, I would have nightmares of a life without him; sadly after I turned 15, he died... 
I knew now that it was up to me to keep mi mama and my sisters and brother okay so I became a sharecropper to keep some money coming in. Since I was always busy working and wearing myself, I was neglecting my duties of protecting my siblings and mother. On one particular day in 1894, My 12 year old sister was raped, by the owner of the hacienda I was working on, it made me furious so I decided to bring her justice myself! I found my father's pistol that he kept hidden in the house, I found that worthless excuse of a man and I shot him before he could say sorry. 
I became a wanted man at the age of only 16 years and I had to try and flee so I went towards the mountains but I was caught and put into prison. I let my father and my entire family down, I disgraced them all... Instead of letting myself rot in prison, I escaped and went back towards the mountains to forever become a man on the run. On the way I discovered another group of bandits and I became their leader, from that point on I was known as Pancho Villa
Soon, my name was becoming synonymous among the people of Mexico, I was called a bandit and a snake because nobody could catch me. My reputation soon was recognized by a man who called himself Francisco Madero, he was planning a revolution against Porfirio Diaz who was El Presidente at the time. Madero found me and told me that I was "skillful" and could become a "great guerrilla fighter." After considering all the good and bad things that could come from helping this stranger, I decided to join him in this uprising. I was immediately appointed a colonel and soon I was leading a successful revolution in the name of Mexico! From October of 1911 to May 1911, I helped push the revolution forward but after having problems with Commander Orozco, I resigned. Not very long after I left I met a beautiful woman, her name was Maria Luz Corral and on May 29, 1911 I married her and we went to live a peaceful and secluded life away from everything from the past. My old amigo Francisco Madero ended up becoming president, but once again there was controversy arising...

Wanted Dead Or Alive!

Now that President Madero was in office, he put Commander Orozco in a place that made him feel lower than he deserved, Orozco was so angry that he swore to President Madero that he would make history repeat itself once again... Francisco did not want to risk anything so in the spring of 1912 he decided to call upon me and a man I had never met before who was known as General Victoriano Huerta to help protect him. We called up a strong group of soldiers and begun to prepare for another fight. In May of the same year, I was accused by General Huerta of stealing one of the horses and he sentenced me to death, I could not believe this! Luckily President Madero sent for me to be spared but I still was put into jail where I stayed  from June to December 27 of that year when I could not wait any longer and decided to run.
While I was locked up Huerta turned on President Madero and killed him to become the new president.. I was not gonna let this happen so I joined forces with Venustiano Carranza to go against Huerta and his men. I had not lost my fighting styles or stamina and I was able to win tons of battles and conquer such places as Chihuahua and other Northern areas of Mexico. Soon, Carranza decided to become my enemy, and wanted to start a war with me but I had no time for that ignorant man...

I fled to Columbus, New Mexico on March 9, 1916 to attack and conquer it, by this time the US joined forces with Carranza to hunt me down, I know that the US military remembered me because I had gone there before in 1812 when I went to attack small towns in the southern part of the state. For some reason, I had become almost a celebrity with some people because they would speak of me like I was some great outlaw and hero to the peoples of Mexico. Since the US had been experimenting with many types of new equipment so they took the opportunity to test them out on me, maybe that's why they didn't kill me...
I made it back into Mexico and continued to make a name for myself among the peoples. On May 20, 1920 my enemy Venustiano Carranza assassinated that evil man Victoriano, and took office as the president. He soon began speaking that he just wanted peace in Mexico and he called upon me to ask that I retire from the place I had in the anarchy going on, he promised I'd have a nice hacienda to live in that was located in Chihuaha, he had me there so I quit from my old ways. Unfortunately my retirement did not last long, I was shot and killed on my way back from the bank on July 20, 1923.
I am still remembered to this day all throughout Mexico, some are good memories others are bad, it doesn't matter what they say because I am who I am, and that person is, Doroteo Arando "Francisco Pancho Villa" The Mexican Robin Hood.

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Sources
http://history1900s.about.com/cs/panchovilla/p/panchovilla.htm
http://www.biography.com/people/pancho-villa-9518733
http://www.mexconnect.com/articles/1305-francisco-pancho-villa
http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=1068