Their fame spread much farther than that, to my own Florida and south of Chicago residences in my teenage years, at least. The Cubans in our community who had fled Castros prisons and walls sometimes needed a good laugh, and from their masked Mexican cousins, sometimes found a little cheer. All they'd have needed to do would take a JaiAlai pelote into the ring with them to have become an instant hit with the Cubanos
You're welcome for the links. I always figured the present-day band Santos took it's name from a religious reference, but perhaps not. And come to think of it, I think some masked machos appear in at least one of their videos.
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