El 24 Jun 97 a las 13:16, Bill Bartlett nos dice(n):

>
> I would be quite interested to hear from Nestor Miguel or others how
> this myth manifests itself in countries with different cultural
> heritages, I know it seems a little off the topic of this list
> but...
>
> Bill Bartlett
> Bracknell Tasmania

This would take a very long posting, I am afraid. But I think that
there are two kind of "social rebels" that may fit the definition:

a) during the first 30 years of the 20th century, there have been
rural bandits who generally acted as local flesh-and-blood Robin
Hoods.  I now remember the name of Bairoletto in the Central Pampas,
of Mate Cosido in the Chaco. Buenaventura Durruti
was an Anarchist who robbed banks and shared his booty with plain
people in the countryside. He died fighting with a heroic column
during the Spanish 1936 war.

There is a book by Argentine author Osvaldo Bayer, "Los anarquistas
expropiadores", that may have been translated into English or German.

b) the most definite example of an independent individual in the
Pampas was, however, the gaucho. I will expand on this human type on
a later mail. But, just to begin with: they had little to do with the
touristic myth that has expanded worldwide. And gauchos were
massacred during our tragic civil war years (1820-1870), due to
reasons too long to be exposed on the list. And absolutely off-topic.
Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky
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