Soldiers in Porfirio Diaz's army sang "La cucaracha" about a "soldadera" who wanted money to go to the bullfights. For the Villistas, "'La cucaracha' wanted money for alcohol and marijuana. She was often so drunk or stoned that she could not walk straight," writes Elizabeth Salas in "Mexican Military: Myth and History". "Unlike corridos about male revolutionaries like Villa and Zapata, none of the well-known "corridos" about "soldaderas" give their real names or are biographical. Consequently, there are very few stanzas that ring true about women in battle or the camps," Salas writes.