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Dedication to the Mask (2019x230)
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Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta is arguably one of the most famous men in the history of Mexico and yet, rather paradoxically, there are few people who know his name and even fewer who know his face. This is because for almost five decades Huerta was known to the public only as a silver faced luchadore called El Santo. And in that time, he only once removed his mask while in public.
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Sources:
http://www.legacy.com/news/legends-and-legacies/santo-the-mexican-luchador/1981/
http://www.canoe.ca/SlamWrestlingFeatures/santo.html
http://www.searchmytrash.com/articles/santo(8-07).shtml
http://peoplesworld.org/legend-of-el-santo-lives-on/
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nW6jAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA357&lpg=PA357&dq=el+santo+man+in+the+iron+mask&source=bl&ots=lWdLaqXbGv&sig=hkkQ-apUSANRQuVhAno5-sJXZts&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NJ2aVbi5EcTnUrDBrLgC&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=el%20santo%20man%20in%20the%20iro