Güero (disambiguation)

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Güero (Alternatively spelled Guero or Huero pron. IPA ['wero] sounds like "Wher-oh" in English) is a Spanish slang demonym for a light-skinned person, commonly directed to a non-hispanic white American however it can also be directed to Latinos with light skin. Depending on its usage, the word can be considered pejorative, but is also found as a common term of endearment. It is sometimes used interchangeably with the term Gabacho and sometimes Gringo.

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Güero/Guero/Huero, may refer to:

In people:

• "El Güero Loco", one of the many aliases of Ivan Martin, member of the Chicano Hip-hop group, Delinquent Habits.
• "El Guero Jaibo", (a.k.a. Juan Francisco Murillo Diaz) a member of the Tijuana Cartel. Believed to be one of the masterminds and shooters behind the assassination of Juan Jesús Cardinal Posadas Ocampo in May 1993.

In music:

• Guero is a piano studio by German composer Helmut Lachenmann.
• Guero, the sixth album released by Beck.
  • Guerolito, the first remix album by Beck featuring all of the songs from Guero (except for the hidden track, "Send a Message to Her").
• Matando Güeros", the first album from the Mexican satanic metal-band Brujeria, which subject revolves around "killing white Americans" and the politics surrounding illegal immigration. The band asserts that a "Güero" in their terms is any (white) American who supports racism against Mexican people and denies Mexicans passage across the border.

In Film:

• El Guero Estrada, a Mexican film directed by Gilberto De Anda and scored by Gustavo Ramírez Reyes.
• Guero's Restaurant, a restaurant featured in Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof.