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His real name was Gustavo Rodríguez Bermúdez (1926 - 2017), but the Colombians nicknamed him "Gustavo el loco". At work, he stood out as a driver and automotive mechanic, mainly for North American vehicles. He became so obsessed with his work that he suffered from mental disorders, leading him to drive cars in reverse on a couple of occasions: an ambulance from Guareiras to the city of Colón, and a hearse to the Guareiras cemetery.

But her celebrity reached her as a crier of carnivals, parties, concerts of the Aragon orchestra, her favorite, and other popular activities, sometimes adjusting to reality and others to her imagination. With a black complexion, average height, scruffy clothes and a hat on his head, he used to put one of his hands on one of the ears when proclaiming in public spaces: “Carnivals in Colón, 50,000 cases of beer, pork cracklings, and the one that does not have money, guajacones pa to the shore ”; "Carnivals in Matanzas, in Cárdenas, the Aragon is coming and whoever has no money will do like the guareao." Other expressions of his were related to his cinematographic tastes ("I am a Chicago gunslinger"), his automotive knowledge ("I am high speed" and "I have under the brake fluid"), as well as his concepts of social life (" Money is like acid, it corrodes everything ";" The handsome are not in Agüica, the handsome are what we are in the street ")

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