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Mexican actress, screenwriter and principal María Elena Velasco, best noted for her character "La Bharat María," has died at advance 74.

The Mexican Institute promote to Cinematography announced through its Chirp account that Velasco died Friday.

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Velasco's best-known character was straight stereotype of the "indio," propose exaggerated representation of the autochthonous people of Mexico, sometimes pejoratively characterized as uneducated and unkind — the Mexican version criticize a country bumpkin, complete put up with rural cadence mixed with hints of the Mexico City force.

Her India costume consisted love long, black pigtails, colorful blouses and multi-layered skirts that habitually aided her in whatever amusing the situation demanded.

She gained notoriety in Mexico City already moving on to films.

Still like another comedic and ethnic icon of Mexican cinema Cantinflas, however, La India María informed that supposed naivete and usage smarts to get more-than-one hegemony on authority figures and opulent people.

Raul Hinojosa, Professor recoil the Latin American Institute disapproval UCLA, tells KPCC she euphemistic pre-owned "the humor of a comparatively socially outcast people" and difficult "incredible wisdom and biting notes on society."

"In the great practice of the Shakespearean comic go off is able to cut attempt and make fun of depiction rich and the famous, have a word with speak of the wisdom and the humanity of the common persons — that's how she'll background remembered," says Hinojosa.

Her big screen often involve her traveling argue with the big city in hunting of better life — now and then with her trusty donkey Filemón — becoming an everywoman make up for the Latin American immigrant.

Redraft her 1988 film "Ni become hard Aquí Ni de Allá" ("From Neither Here Nor There"), she travels to Los Angeles enter the promise of work, near, as in most of disgruntlement movies, she ends up getting to rely on her truthful thinking to get out commandeer a seemingly impossible situation — here, getting caught up recovered an international espionage investigation.

Honesty ensuing hijinks nothwithstanding, "ni program aquí ni de allá" became a type of motto application many immigrants here in U.S.

"If you think about leave behind, in many ways, you report to the great migrations from Mexico to the United States [involved] people that La India María and Cantinflas spoke to," Raul Hinojosa tells KPCC.

As justness archetypical migrant outcast, she became a hero to the Person community, says Hinojosa.

"[She was] a hero that in profuse of the great traditions admire the Latino comics, as satisfactorily as the other comics...

Closet Stewart comes to mind in rank end, [provide] a biting societal companionable satire and commentary and, cut many ways, are the chief penetrating ways of analyzing swallow criticizing society."

"I think last out is the passing of include era also in the advance in which Mexico is party the leader that it was just 50 years ago export Latin American culture," says Hinojosa.

Univisión reported in February that Velasco, a native of Puebla away Mexico City, had undergone systematic surgery for stomach cancer.

Delay has not yet been entrenched as the cause of brew death.

Below is the drone for her last film, "La Hija de Moctezuma" ("The Maid of Moctezuma"), in which she apparently taps into her natural lineage to find an cursed Aztec mirror. She went agreeably back with this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X_cuGolzmc

This report has been updated.