Portal:Hispanic and Latino Americans/Did you know/4

• ... that although Iván DeJesús, Jr. (pictured) was selected to play in the 2008 Southern League All-star game, he instead played in the 2008 All-Star Futures Game?
• ... that Ron Arias, a senior writer and correspondent for People magazine and People en Español, was influenced by twentieth-century Latin American literature?
• ... that the origin of Chicano literature, the literature of Mexican-Americans in the U.S., has been traced back as far as 1542 and the chronicle of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca?
• ... that 19th-century California bandit Procopio, also known as Red-Handed Dick, was said to "love the feel and the color of warm blood," and his name was used by mothers to frighten their children?

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