Mora, with a “red face,” “a blond, British-looking moustache,” and “something wrong about his eyes,” is the brash leader of the fascists who square up against El Sordo and his group. Berrendo thinks of him as a foolhardy “gunslinger”; indeed, Mora is convinced that the Republicans have been killed during the first offensive and mocks the other fascist troops for refusing to believe him. After shouting “filth” at the hill, he sets off alone in an attempt to prove that the Republicans are dead, though he quickly realizes that they are alive and hiding.