Although Pancho Villa was known as a bandit and a murderer to the rich and powerful, he played a big part in helping overthrow the corrupt Mexican Government and had a positive impact on the community in Mexico. His actions made a positive impact on the Mexican Community he took from rich and and greedy gave to the poor and needy. He stole cattle herds for the poor families who could not afford to buy meat. Pancho Villa once said, "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something." Villa was an idol to poor Mexicans. He was the only Mexican trying to help the poor people in the country. This is why Pancho Villa started fighting and taking over towns to help the poor out. He then decided to unite with Francisco I. Madero, Emiliano Zapata,
In San Diego, North Count, gang activity has Rudy Espudo, the leader of a Mexican Mafia group, pleaded guilty to his organized crimes involving the mafia. He is known for drug trafficking, violence, and extortion. Espudo has been involved in the Mexican Mafia by encouraging other gangs to pay “taxes” to the main Mexican Group, “La Eme”. Paying taxes the smaller groups in order to get supplies such as illegal substances to sell. Espudo played a leading role in his gang that was under the protection of the Mexican Mafia.
Well, this fella was the biggest shipper of cocaine into the US. At a certain point 80% of the coke used in the US got through Escobar's drug channels. Four out of each five lines were his! Pablo as a kid. Escobar began from humble beginnings; no one could have anticipated this child of a laborer farmer would one day turn into the world's leader biggest ever drug cartels.
A drug lord, government official, hero, and villain. Pablo Escobar was born December 1, 1949 in a town named Rionegro, Colombia. His mother, Hermilda was a schoolteacher, and his father Abel farmed. Escobar had achieved a great quantity of accomplishments, from the beginning to the end of his life. From his rise as a lower class citizen, to then being amongst the prestigious group of people associated with the economic rank of the 1 percent.
The conqueror of the Aztecs, murder of an empire, and a kidnapper, all of these
Everybody knew about him, but almost nobody spoke about him. He was nicknamed, “El Señor de Los Cielos” the lord of the skies. This was because he had a very special tool that got him to his success in the trafficking business. He was to later become
During the 1920s multiple criminal activities were taking place and the majority of illegal activity was due to the eighteenth amendment which prohibited the selling and manufacture of alcohol. Illegal activity that took place was bootlegging and the establishment of speakeasies. With criminal activity on the rise, a major criminal behind many illegal activities at the time was Al Capone. In addition, the Mafia rose with gambling, bootlegging, and illegal marketing.
Porfirio Diaz was the dictator of Mexico, in the years of 1884 to 1911, who sought to modernize Mexico through a series of economic and social policies he had emplaced onto the country–the country consisted of the rural population and the prosperous upper class. Due to political stability, and lack of wealth–under the reign of Porfirio–there was commotion, especially amongst the middle and lower classes. Until Diaz took over and decided it was best to improve the economic stability of the country since the mexican economy was far underdeveloped. In Diaz’ journey for modernization, foreign investments originated from the implemented policies which would ultimately build Mexico back up and into a thriving country. Some Historians have assumed
Cesar Chavez was born March 31, 1927, in Yuma, Arizona. He moved to California alongside his parents and four other siblings where he spent his early years working in the fields and as a teenager did other various jobs such as driving those who could not around. Chavez dropped out of school in 7th grade so that his mother no longer had to work in the fields and he became a full-time farm
His father was not the best, and has also been accused of beating Ramirez and the rest of the family. The fact that his Green Beret cousin showed him horrid pictures from his time in Vietnam surly did not help the circumstances either. He learned from both “men” how to be a man, which ultimately ended up making him a psychotic serial killer. He was made into something that he may not have been had he not been seeking approval from these men. The social learning theory states that people learn from one another, via observation, imitation, and modeling.
General George Patton lead calvary patrols against Pancho Villa at Fort Bliss along the Mexican border line. He served as a member of John J Pershing’s troops. 1916, General George was chosen to aide John J Pershing, commander of the American Expenditionary in Mexico. Patton was also honored for shooting Julio Cardenas, Mexican leader, during the battle of Columbus in 1917. He got promoted to Captain and led Pershing’s headquarters troop after they left Mexico. 1917 Patton was the first officer assigned to the new American Expeditionary Force tank corps. In General Geoge Patton military career he earned the Distinguished Service Metal for his leadership with the tanks. Years later (1943) he was in battle again, using daring assault tactics
Then he got kicked out of school when he turned 15 years old so practically when he was in high school. When Luis turned 18 he was a facing a 6 year prison sentence and he lost many friends he said he wanted to die because of that and he mentioned that's when he realized the world kept saving him from all the gunshots he never got shot. Rodriguez mentioned he had a world of books, he said “reading books a whole world opens up to you even though your world is limited”. That's when he knew he wanted to start writing by reading all those books
He used an unprecedented 22 private Boeing 747 jets to move cocaine from Mexico to the United States, and his net worth is $25 billion. To protect himself, he altered his appearance with plastic surgery; however, he died during the
Historical Image Journal Topic One: Hernando De Soto Hernando De Soto is the famous conquistador who explored all of the southeastern area in the America we live in today. De Soto started his conquest in Florida and travelled through Georgia, the Carolina’s, Alabama, and even made his way through Louisiana to the beginning of Texas where he died. He actually explored the more land than any other conquistador. De Soto, like many other conquistadors, travelled from region to region to find the Native Americans gold and wealth.
He is a Mexican politician formerly associated with PRI. He stole around 223 millions of pesos from taxes which was given to shell corporation. (Grasso) Another case was “La Casa Blanca”(The White House), an investigation from a journalist that made the hugest scandal to the president Enrique Peña Nieto; it was known that he had a house of 86 millions of pesos in Lomas de Chapultepec. (ibid.) In the middle of accusations by the "White House", the then federal Deputy and now the delegational head of Cuauhtémoc, in the Federal District, Ricardo Monreal Ávila, accused that the Governor of Puebla Rafael Moreno Valle delivered projects for more than 26 thousand 212 million pesos in three years, to businessman Armando Hinojosa Cantú, owner of Grupo Higa.