Luis Humberto Crosthwaite | |
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Born | 1962 (age 61–62) Tijuana, Mexico |
Occupation | Writer, editor, and journalist |
Luis Humberto Crosthwaite (born 1962 in Tijuana) is a writer, editor, and journalist whose work has appeared in a variety of international venues. His fiction works have garnered critical attention for his ability to express the complexities of living on the US/Mexico border region.
Crosthwaite spent most of his life in Tijuana before moving to San Diego, where he worked at The San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper as columnist and editor.
Currently,[ when? ] Crosthwaite lives in Tijuana.
Premio Nadal is a Spanish literary prize awarded annually by the publishing house Ediciones Destino, part of Planeta. It has been awarded every year on 6 January since 1944. The Josep Pla Award for Catalan literature is given at the same ceremony.
Mario Almada Otero was a Mexican actor with a career lasting over seven decades. He appeared in over 300 films. He was most known for his roles in urban westerns, narco peliculas and action pictures. He was the brother of actor Fernando Almada.
Gustavo Carlos Zerbino Stajano is a Uruguayan businessman, motivational speaker, sports executive and former rugby union player. He is known for being one of the sixteen survivors of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 plane crash that occurred on October 13, 1972 in the Andes.
Raúl Mario Ruidíaz Misitich is a Peruvian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Major League Soccer club Seattle Sounders FC and the Peru national team.
Vanessa Villela is a Mexican-American actress turned real estate agent, who appeared in Selling Sunset and Mexican TV series El señor de Los Cielos, Una Maid en Manhattan, El Cuerpo Del Deseo, Romántica obsesión, Ellas, inocentes o culpables, Súbete a mi moto, Un nuevo amor, El cuerpo del deseo, Decisiones, Amores de mercado. On October 2, 2017, Villela posted that she has become an American citizen.
Los Número Uno: Éxitos 1968-2003 (2003) is the twentieth album and second compilation album by Mexican rock and blues band El Tri. Going back to the end of the Sixties when the band was only a trio known as Three Souls in my Mind the compilation take a couple of songs 30 years old as well as hits up to the latest albums.
MTV Unplugged (1996) is the twenty-third album and sixth live album by Mexican rock and blues band El Tri. Recorded 10 years earlier the album was released as one more compilation.
The Logan Heights Gang, also known as Varrio Logan Heights or LH, is a Sureño street gang based in Southeast San Diego.
David Barron Corona, was a Mexican-American gangster who was a high-ranking member of the Logan Heights Gang and the Mexican Mafia, and a hitman for the Tijuana Cartel under the command of drug lord Ramon Arellano Felix. Barron recruited and led a band of Mexican-American Logan Heights gang members as hired enforcers for the Arellano-Felix organization.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.
Grupo Yndio is a Mexican band from Sonora founded in 1972, by some of the members of the dissolute Los Pulpos.
Isabel María Sabogal Dunin-Borkowski is a Polish-Peruvian bilingual novelist, poet, translator of Polish literature into Spanish and astrologer.
FotoFilm Tijuana is a festival that takes place annually in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. It is a photography and film festival and had over 22,000 attendees in 2017. Held in July at the Tijuana Cultural Center, the event is a showcase for Mexican and international filmmakers, photographers and performers. The festival comprises competitive sections for short films, and includes feature films and documentary films.
María Corina Smith Pocaterra, better known as Corina Smith, is a Venezuelan singer, actress and model.
Tres tristes tigres, abbreviated as TTT, is the debut novel by Cuban writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante. The novel was first published in Spain in 1967. It was later translated into English by Donald Gardner and Suzanne Jill Levine and published in 1971 as Three Trapped Tigers.
Carlos Montero Castiñeira is a Spanish screenwriter, film producer, film director and television producer. Featuring an extensive background as writer of teen drama television series, he is the creator of Física o Química and Elite.
“Contrabando y traición” is the name of a Mexican song, also called "Camelia, la tejana,” whose lyrics were written by Ángel González in 1972. The song achieved popular success when it was performed by Los Tigres del Norte and included in their album of the same name in 1974. This particular song is seen as being responsible for the ensuing popularity of the narcocorrido, and the revitalization of the corrido itself in Mexico.
Gabriela Torres Olivares is a Mexican novelist and short story writer.
This article includes an overview of the major events and trends in Latin music in the 1970s, namely in Ibero-America. This includes recordings, festivals, award ceremonies, births and deaths of Latin music artists, and the rise and fall of various subgenres in Latin music from 1970 to 1979.