09/07/2025
On March 18, 1915, 25-year-old Venceslao Moguel was captured during the Mexican Revolution and sentenced to death without a trial. Accused of supporting revolutionary forces, he was denied a voice, a defense, or any chance of mercy. The sentence was clear and brutal: ex*****on by firing squad. Facing the soldiers, Moguel stared death in the eyes. Eight bullets tore through his body, and he collapsed among the already dead. But the ritual wasn’t over. A soldier approached, pressed a gun to the back of his head, and fired one final shot — the coup de grâce.
That should have been the end. But it wasn’t. Hours later, bloodied and barely clinging to life, Moguel did the unimaginable: he crawled three city blocks, dragging his shattered body through the streets to the Church of Santiago Apóstol. There, a parishioner discovered him and hid him from authorities, nursing him back to health in secret. Miraculously, none of the bullets had struck his vital organs. His survival was more than just luck — it was pure will. A refusal to die. A fight to endure.
Venceslao Moguel would become known as *El Fuzilado* — “The Executed One.” Not for the shots he took, but for the fact that he stood up afterward. He became a living legend, not because he escaped death, but because he defied it — with grit, resilience, and a spirit too strong to be silenced.
