Talk:cacorro

I have a theory about the origen of the word cacorro. The word was most likely brought to Colombia’s low land from Cuba by Cuban workers and advisors for the sugar refineries. The word seems to be a mispronunciation of Cascorro. The word cascorro o cacorro initially did not have a sexual connotation, but instead meant foolish, silly, irrational, fatuous, or senless. With the use the word turned out to be used as a synonymous of pendejo and sissy. Eloy Gonzalo de Cascorro was a Spanish soldier during the Spanish American War in 1896 who carried out a foolish, bold act of heroism (“Don’t be a fool like Cascorro”). He, alone, blew up an insurgent position in the town of Cascorro in Cuba, at the cost of certain death to himself. Before he went down to accomplish his action he asked to be tied to robe to be hoisted by his friend if he were killed. In El Rastro, Madrid there is a monument in honor of Gonzalo de Cascorro’s altruism; but in other parts of the world the memory of his altruistic action has been perpetuated by the thoughts that his bolt action was unnecessary and foolish.