About Joaquín Rodríguez Ortega
Joaquín Rodríguez Ortega, professionally known as Cagancho, was a Spanish bullfighter much of whose career was spent in Mexico, although he did sometimes perform in his native Spain, and one of his performances there, in Almagro, Ciudad Real in 1927 even gave rise to a now well known expression in the Spanish language. Rodríguez also found himself appraised in English when he and his craft were described by Ernest Hemingway in his non-fiction work Death in the Afternoon, along with many other Spanish bullfighters of the early 20th century. The others were Manuel Hiruelo, Enrique Arévalo Montes, Eduardo Pérez "El Niño de la Venta", José Reyes "Pedrillo" and Antonio Rodríguez Pérez "Rodrigo"; all but the first were, like Rodríguez, beginners.
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