He is the son of Captain Alejandro de la Vega, a hard-working, hard fighting Spanish soldier seeking his fortune in the Americas and Toypurnia, a mestiza, the daughter of a Native American shaman and a Spanish sailor. Diego is born in the late eighteenth century near San Gabriel, a Franciscan mission in Spanish colonial Alta California. This Zorro has his own frailties and prejudices (and somewhat protruding ears), plus the ingenious tricks and “disproportionate love of justice” we are all familiar with. Now, meet Diego de la Vega: real, flesh and blood, three dimensional. He was an American pulp fiction character, created almost 100 years ago, who became a “legend.” Embellished, glamorized, Disneyfied, with several changes in wardrobe and equipment (the first Zorro wore a sombrero and often carried a pistol,) his latest incarnation is the star of a Colombian TV show on Telemundo – a far more promiscuous hero than the original, and with a theme song by Beyoncé.
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