The Americanization of Jose

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.