Santos Machorro



Santos Machorro is candyman of El Zocalo and the secondary antagonists in Animex movie La Leyenda de la Nahuala. Manufactures and sells the best sweets typical of Puebla. He is a very popular character and loved by all the poblan children; besides being the only friend Leo has, who always listens and advises.

Personality
Very theatrical person, always making humorous, over the top jesters to his customers and can go on extended gags for their amusement. Santos often comes across as a kind, reasonable old man who likes entertaining children. However, underneath is cheerful and generous demeanor is a deeply messed up man. Ever since his mother died at the hands of La Nahuala, Santos strived to "be strong", however, his attempts at becoming strong instead had him grow into a bitter and violent man. He attempted to trick Leo San Juan by entering the Manor and even gave him Miquixtli's Medallion in order to make the child "brave". He boasted about how he trapped both of them, both to be sacirfises to La Nahuala. He even claims he's tried this with several other children, to no avail.

Story
At first he is a friend of Leo, and it is he who gives him the medallion of Miquiztli to encourage him to enter the old house. Later, it is known that in reality Santos is the son of the woman who was possessed by Nahuala, and now works for her looking for a child who wants to enter the house so that the woman can carry out her incantation of eternal life. When Nahuala tells Santos that he is no longer his son and leaves his female body, he realizes that all these years he worked in vain for a monster. At the end of the film he dies as a result of an attack by Nahuala; the soul of his mother is present and he, converted into a child, ascends with his mother to the world of the dead.