A jagunço (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒaˈɡũsu]), from the Portuguese zarguncho (a weapon of African origin, similar to a short lance or chuzo), is an...

setting in the sertão and nearly all revolve around the figure of the jagunço, a mercenary-like figure that serves as a militia to farmers and secures...

time. Grande Sertão: Veredas is the complex story of Riobaldo, a former jagunço (mercenary or bandit) of the poor and steppe-like inland of the Rio São...

the Jagunço / Killer Sete Homens Vivos ou Mortos (1969) O Cangaceiro Sem Deus (1969) O Cangaceiro Sanguinário (1969) - Capitão / Captain Jagunço Corisco...

in the Backlands] It narrates in first person the life of adventures of jagunço Riobaldo. He is joined by Diadorim, a boy for whom he begins to feel a...

bandits who served as irregulars during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905. Jagunço – armed hand in Northern Brazil. Kachaks - Albanian bandits and rebels...

region, there were two main groups of loosely organized armed outlaws: the jagunços, mercenaries who worked for whoever paid their price, usually land-owners...

(in Portuguese). No. 55. pp. 26–33. Benício, Manoel (2013). O rei dos jagunços (PDF) ([2nd ed.] ed.). Brasilia: Senado Federal, Conselho Editorial....

Carvana), the corrupt police chief of the town, hires Antônio das Mortes as a jagunço against Coirana and Antônio fatally wounds Coirana in a duel. However,...

most of the inhabitants. The conflict started with Conselheiro and his jagunços (landless peasants) of this "remote and arid" area protesting against the...