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According to local lore, in the colonial period thieves caught in [[Tepito]] were hung here using the large [[Taxodium mucronatum|Montezuma cypress]] trees that the area had, which became something of a spectacle.<ref name="mexdes"/> The now dry land became hacienda generally dedicated to the raising of horses.<ref name="hogar"/>
In the late 19th century and early 20th century, Mexico City was growing westward over these formerly rural areas. In 1903, the hacienda land around Romita was bought with the purpose of creating a housing development for the wealthy called [[Colonia Roma]]. The hacienda immediately surrounding Roma became the streets of Puebla, Durango, Morelia and Avenida Cuauhtémoc.<ref name="mexdes"/><ref name="hogar"/> When Colonia Roma was created, Romita was officially incorporated into it, but the local residents fought redevelopment. The area has since developed semi-independently from the rest of Colonia Roma, both in infrastructure and socially.<ref name="moonbooks">{{cite book |title=Moon Handbooks-Mexico City |last=Humphrey |first=Chris |year=2005 |publisher=Avalon Travel Publishing |location=Berkeley, CA |isbn=978-1-56691-612-7 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/moonhandbooksmex00chri/page/63 63–66] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/moonhandbooksmex00chri/page/63 }}</ref>
The local residents were of a significantly lower social class than the rest of Roma, with the wealthy residents avoiding it for fear of thieves.<ref name="hogar"/> In the 20th century, it was also the home of a notable [[pulque]] bar called La Hija de los Apaches located on Avenida Cuauhtemoc.<ref name="mexdes"/> In the 1930s and 1940s, the area had two legendary female thieves named Plácida Hernández and the other only referred to as "La Loba" (The She-Wolf) .<ref name="moonbooks"/> The area had one famous gang known as the Halcones (Falcons). This gang was prominent in the 1940s and 1950s, when it was led by Arturo "El Negro" Durazo and controlled a large part of La Romita. Durazo befriended and protected a more studious resident of the area, [[José López Portillo]], who eventually went into politics and became [[president of Mexico]] from 1976 to 1982. In return for protection received when he was young, Portillo made Durazo the chief of police of Mexico City. This led wide scale corruption and brutality until Durazo was replaced and jailed by the following president [[Miguel de la Madrid]] .<ref name="moonbooks"/>
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