After reading the first pages of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s, “One Hundred Years of Solitude” I can only imagine Jose Arcadio Buendia finding himself in trouble due to his stubbornness or perhaps him trading off his children in exchange for the Gypsies newest invention. The opening pages of the book entails how every year in March, Gypsies come into their village and show case inventions they found in their latest journey. So far, some of the inventions they have found were a magnet, a magnifying glass, an astrolabe, false teeth and Ice. Upon seeing these never before seen inventions, Jose Arcadio Buendia was determined to get ahold of these inventions no matter what the cost was, in one incident he even traded his dead father-in-law’s gold in…
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo was an ambitious, at times ruthless Portuguese soldier who served the Spanish Empire. Cabrillo eventually made his fortune in Guatemala, mining gold and trading goods while participating in the slave trade. In hopes of more riches, he set out to explore the California coast, mapping landmarks and identifying Native villages. He died on January 3, 1543, of infection from a wound suffered after an attack on his expedition by Tongva tribesmen.…
In Chapter 6 of Enrique’s Journey, from the last footsteps on Mexican soil to the first on US soil the process of smuggling immigrants become more detailed. Although they discuss the different form in which smugglers bring migrants to the United States such as through ropes or human chains, El Tirindaro seems to be more experienced. As a smuggler El Tirindaro is very risky be very wise in every move he makes. Although it might seem like he makes poor decisions when it comes to his personal life and health, he is success is getting many immigrants across their border and to their destination. However, El Tirindaro’s poor judgment is seen when he leaves Enrique in the hands of people in his “smuggling network” who have been drinking. The overall process is very sketchy and frightening to the immigrants but it all seems to be worth every last cent their families spend even if it means raising it to more than what was negotiated, like Enrique’s mother had to do. Despite the process, reuniting with their relative is most important.…
First became as the most important fashion designer of the Dominican Republic. reached its fame in the 1960s.…
1. While driving to Havana after giving a lecture, Professor Juan Cabrera remembers a time in his childhood when his family lived on a large sugarcane ranch. This life did not last for long because Juan's father was taken away so that the Cuban government could sieze the family's land.…
El chupacabra is a cryptid that is known for its attacks on livestock, hence the Spanish name "the goatsucker."…
Joaquin’s childhood involved family poverty, He had an abusive father who was a man that was very violent and was involved in the drug trade. Joaquin was kicked out of his home and had to make a life of his own, he didn’t have much schooling. He found himself doing what his father was doing, he was growing marijuana for a very small amount of money. The Sinaloa Cartel transported heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine into U.S and other countries. Where? “They conveyed these drugs in the western end of Mexico where the narcotics moved north to coastal cities and then into the United States”. Sinaloa’s clever trafficking methods most highly a set of air-conditioned tunnels that is under the Mexican-U.S border. How? “They covered it inside fire extinguishers, Cans that were labeled Chili peppers”. The cartel affected five continents which made it the biggest operation in the world. In 2009 The Sinaloa Cartel was reported by pulling in 3 billion…
In the year 1513, Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for the country Spain. Ponce de Leon was a Spanish explorer looking for the “Fountain of Youth” that would give humans an eternal life. Instead, Leon landed on the shore of the current-day St. Augustine. It was so beautiful that Leon crowned it for the Spaniards.…
He then boards the airplane and decided to listen to music on his way to Mexico. It was going to be a long ride. Pablo takes out his beats and puts them on to cancel out the noise from the airplane and listens to music. He begins to fall asleep just waiting for the time he will get there. Later during the flight he is woken up by a loud sound coming from the engine. Then in the intercom the captain came on and told everybody to not to panic and everybody to put on their seatbelts and to hold on. Pablo then reached for his seatbelt and holding on to his dear life. Then he hears the other engine being cut off and how it was failing. He then starts praying to God that everything will be okay. Then the plane began to fall and Pablo could feel his heart pounding like if it was about to explode out of his chest. Then Pablo braces for impact and hold on to his seat. Pablo was knocked out and didn’t know where he…
Pancho villa once said “ its better to die on your feet than to live in your knees.” Pancho was born on June 5th, 1878 in Durango Mexico but on died on June 20th 1973 by assassination. There is a memorial where he was buried called parallel cemetery but story is that his body is not in his grave but somewhere unknown. The reason why his body is not in his grave is because there were contacts still on him to literally take his head, bandits would dig up his body to steal his head and turn it in for a ransom but the feast of his body is unknown. Ernesto villa was panchos last living son until December 31st,2009. His body was buried along with his father at parall cemetery(or what's known to be where his body is at).Pancho villa was a great hero for starting a great rebellious cause against the dictatorship from the Mexican president.…
Pablo Escobar is maybe one of the biggest players in organized crime ever. Pablo Escobar's savage mind set is what set him different from other drug traffickers in Colombia. If he caught you stealing from him, he would have your hands caught off. Because of so many people after him, he decided to join forces with other gangs and big dogs in the drug trade. This was the formation of the Medellin Cartel. The cartel had great success. They had cocaine running through Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Honduras, the United States , as well as Canada and Europe. At their peak, they supported the world's cocaine. They contributed to at least 84% of cocaine throughout the world. They were bringing in $420,000,000 a week. They were the ones to bring cocaine…
His story contained how he grew up in a single family home in South Central L.A. where gangs—two in particular--had gained notoriety, and as a product of his environment, got caught up running a multimillion dollar drug trafficking operation. He also spoke of working in conjunction with a CIA operative. He was now a recovered drug dealer, who once trafficked drugs; served time in prison; implemented the government’s role in literally delivering” boat loads” of cocaine to America’s poorest neighborhoods, but now he is an author and motivational speaker promoting his book.…
• Born on April 4, 1957, to a poor family in the rural town of La Tuna Badiraguato, his abusive father kicked him out of the house as a child. He started swelling oranges to feed himself. He's poorly educated, his formal education ended in third grade, and as an adult, he has reportedly struggled to read and write, prevailing upon a ghostwriter, at one point, to compose letters to his mistress.…
1, 1949, but his criminal life started in his teens, when he and his gang would steal headstones from the cemetery, sand them down and re-sell them. From there he moved on to conning people, to car thefts, to extortion, where people would pay to not have their cars stolen. He continued his life of crime by legitimating his stolen cars through counterfeit paperwork and selling them. At this point Pablo was becoming known as a young crime boss, and started using lethal violence. “It was murder, but a kind of murder that can be rationalized. A man had to protect his interests” (Bowden, p20). When the “pot-generation” discovered cocaine, this brought a completely new market for Pablo and his crime bosses to exploit. Pablo would be paid profits from all the cocaine-manufacturing plants in his territory through extortion. Although by 1975, Pablo’s connection with Rubin, a young Medellin pilot opened doors for an import/export business, and from there on Pablo’s up rise in the cocaine trade was immanent where he soon began to make millions, which turned into…
Pablo Escobar the man who Colombia will always remember. How they remember him is totally different depending on each person. He was a humble person who came from one of the poorest parts of Colombia. He was at the bottom, but his dream was higher than any other kid his age. At the end of the day people saw him as two things only The Robin Hood of Colombia or the Terrorist of Colombia.…