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Cabrejo, Jose

 
9781499005462: The Americanization of Jose

Biographie de l'auteur

Jose Cabrejo was born in 1935 in Chorrillos, a resort town south of Lima, the capital of PERU. He studied his primary and first two years of secondary in Catholic schools and in 1949 entered the CMLP Leoncio Prado, a military high school where he came contracted a contagious disease and had to leave the school. He came to the United States in 1951 when his father was named to the Inter-American Defense Board and finished his secondary at Calvin Coolidge HS in Wash, DC. from where he went to Georgetown University. He was married in 1954 and became a US citizen in 1961. Jose Cabrejo moved to Chalmette, La. in 1970 and worked for the Chevron Oil Company at the Yscloskey gas Plant for 31 years. He wrote his first article: Return to the Andes in 1976 for the Dixie Roto Magazine of a New Orleans newspaper. Jose Cabrejo is now a resident of Lakeland, Florida.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This short biography is the story of the author Jose Cabrejo from his early childhood until he became a citizen of the United States in 1961. Born in Chorrillos, Peru, his young life was affected by a series of traumatic events which culminated with his arrival to this wonderful country. After having experienced a bout with Tuberculosis and its social implications the author was determined to change his way of life and become a productive and conscientious member of this great society called America.

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