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He was from Mexico. The legend of Zorro was in part inspired by the life of Joaquin Murrieta (1829-1853), a paramilitary fighter and modern "Robin Hood" who fought against American authorities in California from 1849 until his death in 1853. You must remember that a few years earlier, the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) was won, in detriment of the Mexican settlers who already inhabited the conquered territories.

This fact changes the whole history, movies and TV series altogether: The evil authorities, often purported as "Spanish" on all Zorro's movies, were in reality the new American occupiers of the US Southwest -- to be fair, this is an "artistic license" so that the movies and TV series would be more marketable for American audienses.

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