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Captain Carlos Fortino Smano, gives one final smile to his firing squad before his execution. Mexico City. March 2, 1917
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Captain Carlos Fortino Smano, gives one final smile to his firing squad before his execution. Mexico City. March 2, 1917. Mexican Revolution
Carlos Fortino Sámano was a 1st rank captain (Capitán primero) of the Constitutional Army under Venustiano Carranza during the Mexican Revolution.
He was accused of robbery with violence against an old lady, and after a military trial was sentenced to death in 1916 and finally was executed by a Federal firing squad on 2 March 1917. Before being executed, his last will was a glass of Chile chipotle liquor, which was conceded by his executors.
He became a well-known figure because of the picture, taken by Agustín Víctor Casasola who captured him standing before his executioners, unblindfolded, calm, smoking a cigar.
He was the theme of the book, by Virginie Lalucq and Jean-Luc Nancy, Fortino Sámano (The Overflowing of the Poem) and the Greek song "Fortino Samano" (Greek: Ο Φορτίνο Σαμάνο), found in the album Samano (Greek: Ο Σαμάνος) by Thanasis Papakonstantinou. In that sources there is the claim that he supposed to be a rebel and lieutenant of Emiliano Zapata forces
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