Get The Gringo ##HOT##
Driver finds himself as the only 'gringo' (white man) in the Mexican prison town known as "El Pueblito," where anything goes (except for escape) and crooks like Javi (Daniel Giménez Cacho) and his enforcer brother Caracas (Jesús Ochoa) run the show. Driver quickly acclimates himself to his new surroundings - pulling of assaults, arson, and much petty theft - until things get complicated when runs across a small boy (Kevin Hernandez) who is keeping a vengeful eye on Javi.
Get the Gringo
My mother and I call my brother a gringo because he doesn't eat gallo pinto, the traditional Nicaraguan dish of rice and beans. When he complains about a meal we say, "Ese se cree gringo" ("he thinks he's a gringo").
Joan Corominas, an etymologist of Spanish and Catalan, gives us another theory behind the origins of the word. Corominas believes it may have evolved from the Spanish word for Greek: griego. "Está hablando griego," ("he is speaking Greek"), as in the figurative expression, "It's all Greek to me." Meanwhile, William Sayers of Cornell University traces gringo to the Andalusian word for pilgrim, peregrino, and the Romani word for foreigner.
Regardless of the actual origin of gringo, there is a common thread behind all the origin myths and theories. Namely, that it has historically been used to refer to a foreigner. Whether it is a traveler, a person whose language is unintelligible, or a person of foreign birth like me, gringo denotes the idea of otherness.
All in all, getting off the gringo trail is a state of mind. Setting out into the less-known in South America is an exercise in trusting yourself and others. You never know what you will learn or who you will meet, so get excited about it! I 041b061a72