Aldo Mendez Research Paper

1. Name of individual, where are they from, where do they currently live. (2-3 sentences) Edgar Morales, also known as Ricardo Arjona, was born on January 19, 1964 in Jocotenango, Guatemala. When he was three years old his family moved to Guatemala City, where he lived during the remainder of his childhood (“Ricardo Arjona Biography” 2016). Arjona currently lives in Mexico and has since the 1990’s (Quintana, 2017)

Throughout the years, there have been many rises to power and dictators. Some of them being good and some of them being bad. Everyone remembers the bad ones such as, Hitler or The Roman Empire. But, there are some that go unrecognized such as, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Rafael Trujillo rise to power and dictatorship over the Dominican Republic brought on many people to rebel against him and eventually take him down.

Ruben Salazar was born on March 3, 1928, in Ciudad Juarez, and moved to El Paso, Texas where he grew up. Ruben Salazar was a well-known journalist and activist who brought together Chicanos and Americans. He was one of the first non-white journalists in an all-white male profession and proved that he was just as capable of journalism as all of them. Salazar brought together Americans and Chicanos in many ways, he reported on Chicano events and put himself in between a very tense boundary. Salazar began as a journalist for The Los Angeles Times and became a foreign correspondent until a new more powerful Chicano movement brought him back. Salazar was the Times’ best choice to report on the movement and brought him back to Los Angeles to report

The world and especially the Latin music has suffered the lost of one of the greatest singers of all time. The Mexican songwriter and singer Juan Gabriel died on August 28, 2016. He died in his home in Santa Monica, California. Juan Gabriel was one of the top earning artist, his music had no boundaries and was spread worldwide.

In June of 1984, Richard Ramirez began his criminal career as the “Night Stalker.” Ramirez tormented the people of Los Angeles and killed at least thirteen people. He was a Satanist and he was into drugs and violence. He would break into homes and rob them. This evil person was haunting the citizens of Los Angeles and other counties in California for over fourteen months.

In 1891 a boy named Rafael Trujillo was born by a middle aged family in San Cristobal on October 24, 1891. Another thing was that he was one of 11 children and was the third of them all. When he started growing up Trujillo wanted a job so what he decided to do was go and take a job as a Telephone Operator at the age of 16 years after attending a formal elementary school and a private middle school. So after he had his job for a little while Trujillo decided to forge a check from his family bank and because of that he lost his job and also was served time in jail. Also in 1916 Trujillo was known to be in a gang that had also supported him to his criminal ways and was part of the reason that he had forged the check in the first place. After

Ruben Villa IV was born on April 16, 1997, in Salinas California. To his parents Ruben Villa III and Jessica Villa, both Salinas Natives. Being the only son out of 4 sisters. Ruben Villa III introduced his son to a gym in a recreation center for his 5th birthday. Since that day Ruben knew boxing was his passion. Ruben enjoyed throwing punches at the speed bags every time he stepped a foot in the gym with his coach Rudy Puga. In his corner for 12 years. Ruben’s father and his coach decided to take their passion for boxing to the next level. They started a boxing gym in Rudy’s backyard and this is where the beginning of Ruben’s legacy was birthed. Positive guidance has been important to Ruben, having his uncle George Villa as his strength and

Richard Ramirez was born on February 29, 1960, in El Paso, Texas. He was the youngest of the seven children born to his mother Mercedes Ramirez, and father Julian Ramirez. His father was a Mexican-American railway worker who very often let out his anger in physical abuse (biography.com, 2016). Ramirez had quite a troubled childhood; many described him as a loner in school (WordPress, 2010). In the fifth grade, he was diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy, causing him to have constant seizures. He was considered to be a hyper and aggressive child. As a teenager, Richard began to use LSD, and started worshipping Satan. He also started smoking marijuana at the age of 10, along with his older cousin Mike. Even though Richard had 4 older siblings to play with, he decided to spend all of his time with his cousin. Mike was a Green Beret veteran in the U.S Army. He would amuse Ramirez with stories about how he raped and tortured women during the Vietnam War. He would even show him Polaroid pictures as evidence, some of which included him posing with the severed head of a women he had

Juan Cortina was born in 1824, in Camargo, Tamaulipas Mexico. Racher and Politician, Juan Cortina is remembered in our history for him and his army, taking control of Brownsville. He along with others saw the US as a threat against their property as Anglos set up land net to his, so he organized a group, an army if you will to fight the First Cortina War”. Cortina backed off following negotiations with Mexican leaders, but he was commonly known for demanding rights of Tejanos and MExicans and demand anyone be punished that would violate the rights that he stated. Once the Texas Rangers got involved, there was tension between them all, this went on for years between them both and on December 1859; Rangers finally went after Cortinas army in

Bean historically have been, and still are in many parts of the world, an important part of the human diet (Levetin & McMahon, 2012). This is because of the high protein content, which is a supplement to many diets around the world, especially in places where meat is too expensive to consume regularly. A culture where this has been true throughout history, and is still true today, is in Costa Rica. In Costa Rica, one of the most widely consumed dished Gallo Pinto (Nalley, 2011). This dish is a mixture of rice and beans, and has been a staple in the Costa Rican diet.

The dictator, Rafael Loenidas Trujillo Molina, simply known as Rafael Trujillo was born October 24,1891 in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic. Though, he only attained an elementary education, Trujillo entered in the military in 1918. By 1929, Trujillo became The Commander and Chief of the National Army of the Dominican Republic. Trujillo then assumed the presidency in 1930 after eliminating any major threat to his presidency. Rafael Trujillo commenced his brutal era in the 1930’s in the Dominican Republic expanding his brutality across the island of Hispaniola. Hispaniola consists of two countries; Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic was the first country to face Trujillo’s wrath. Due to the fact that he was the elected

Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker tells the true story of Richard Ramirez who terrorized California in 1985 killing 13 people. Richard Ramirez was born in El Paso, Texas on February 28, 1960. His father, Julian Ramirez, a former policeman who later became a railroad laborer, was prone to fits of anger that often resulted in physical abuse. Ramirez’s mother worked in a factory while she was pregnant. During those days workers were not encouraged to protect themselves from any toxins that they may have been exposed to while working in the factory. When Richard was a child he suffered from two head injuries. Ramirez also spent time with his cousin, Miguel, who served as a Green Beret in the Vietnam war. Throughout Ramirez’s relationship with

On October 24, 1981, Rafael Leónidas Trujillo was born in the city of San Cristobal, Dominican Republic and was the third child of eleven. At the age of sixteen, he got a job as a telegraph operator and stayed with that job for about three years until he diverted to a life of crime by stealing and creating a gang called “ The 42.” (Wikipedia) Later in his life, Trujillo enrolled in the Dominican Army in 1918 and was trained by the U.S Marines during their occupation in 1916-1924 because of threats of “defaulting on foreign debts”.(Wikipedia) He quickly began to gain power as he moved up the ranks. According to Britannica, it states “He rose from lieutenant to commanding colonel of the national police between 1919 and 1925, becoming a general in 1927.”

Although his love for art was immense, Rivera’s relationship with the passionate Frida Kahlo would rival against it. After they met through a mutual friend (“Chronology” 6), Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, a Mexican artist (Krull 85), were married in Coyoacán on August 21, 1929 (“Chronology” 6). Rivera was 42 years old, and Frida was 22 years old (“Chronology”6). They were nicknamed the Elephant and the Dove because Rivera was over six feet tall and weighed 300 pounds as opposed to Frida, who was five feet three inches and weighed 98 pounds (Krull 85). This marriage was Rivera’s third and Frida’s first (Krull 85).

René Portocarrero (b. Havana, Cuba) Portocarrero began his artistic education at the San Alejandro academy, but left early and is hence considered ‘self taught’. He put on his first exhibition in 1934, at the Havana Lyceum, beginning a long and fruitful career which included a 1937 collaboration with Mariano Rodríguez and work as a ‘free studies’ teacher of painting and sculpture. After travels in Haiti, Europe and the United States he gave his first show to an overseas audience at Julien Levy’s gallery in New York City in 1945. In 1950 he worked with Wifredo Lam, Mariano, Martinez Pedro and Amelia Palaez in the village of Santiago de Las Vegas. In 1961 he had meetings with Fidel Castro in the Jose Marti National Library where they discussed