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TIL The most popular version of the Mexican song La Cucaracha is about a cockroach that can’t walk because it doesn’t have marijuana to smoke. This version was sung by Poncho Villa’s troops in battle during the Mexican Revolution.

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Ok not to be That Bitch but FIRST OFF HIS NAME WAS PANCHO. WITH A FUCKIN A

And second La Cucaracha isn’t a silly lil ditty about a fucking cockroach who smokes weed. It’s about Victoriano Huerta, the loyalist Porfirista General who overthrew the revolutionary Mexican government in 1913 and became a dictator. Huerta had a heavy marijuana habit and the lyrics of the song mock him by referring to him as a “cockroach”. Like this isn’t some funny song about a pothead insect, it’s a highly political song about a corrupt, lazy upper class who lords over Mexico with an iron fist while exploiting its people and resources.

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