Truly, this Zorro is a hero!īut who is this mysterious Zorro behind his mask? Well, it is certain that it cannot be Don Diego (de la) Vega, even though Don Diego is certainly the right age and of good family. He discomforts the powerful and corrupt, and helps the poor and oppressed. You may know him by the ragged letter "Z" he carves into the cheeks or clothes of wicked men who have lost duels to him, and leaves at the scene of his adventures. That man is Señor Zorro, The Fox, whose cunning is legend, whose swordsmanship is unsurpassed, whose black-clad, masked form slips in and out of the night like a ghost. He has the army firmly under his control, and has placed corrupt officers to enforce his will upon the people.īut there is one man who the governor cannot stop, one man who rises up to fight for justice, who inspires the people to resist and take control of their own destinies. But alas! The new governor is a tyrant who oppresses the natives, overtaxes the peasants, and seeks to rob the proud, upstart hidalgos of their lands and wealth to give to himself and his cronies. The weather is sunny, the señoritas are pretty, the caballeros are handsome, and the land is rich with promise. The sleepy pueblo of Reina de Los Angeles could be Paradise. Zorro is a mysterious masked and black-clad swashbuckling rider who fights injustice in Spanish California in the early 19th century. "Out of the night, when the full moon is bright, comes a horseman known as Zorro."
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