Carranza was a Mexican aviator back in the twenties, he had actually flow non-stop solo farther than Lindbergh--the corrido tells his story, which ended when he crashed in New Jersey, trying to fly from NYC to Mexico City--He was, and still is, one of Mexico's greatest heroes--to this day, there is a ceremony at the crash site, which, eerily, is not that far from Lakehurst, where the Hindenburg exploded, only a couple years later--