Heraclio Bernal

Heraclio Bernal (1855–1888) was a bandit from the Sinaloa region of Mexico. He is widely known as the "Thunderbolt of Sinaloa."

Bandit years Bernal led a group of pistoleros who operated along the mining zones of the Sierra Madre Occidental, dominating parts of Sinaloa and Durango.

Que rechulo era Bernal, en su caballo retinto, con su pistola en la mano peleando con treinta y cinco How beautiful was Bernal, On his black horse, With his pistol in his hand, Fighting against thirty-five.

Aspects of Bernal's life may have evolved into the folk-saint Jesús Malverde.