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El Piolín por la Mañana
Posted by The Watchdog - August 23rd, 2006 This guy is huge. He’s primarily responsible for energizing the estimated 500,000 illegal aliens and their supporters in Los Angeles for the Gran Marcha. Communist groups like ANSWER and MAPA organized the speakers but this morning radio show host brought the masses into the streets. He was the first to walk out and greet the roaring crowd and they treated him like a God. I didn’t know who the hell he was at the time. I figured he was a Mexican rock star or something.
Posted by The Watchdog - August 23rd, 2006 This guy is huge. He’s primarily responsible for energizing the estimated 500,000 illegal aliens and their supporters in Los Angeles for the Gran Marcha. Communist groups like ANSWER and MAPA organized the speakers but this morning radio show host brought the masses into the streets. He was the first to walk out and greet the roaring crowd and they treated him like a God. I didn’t know who the hell he was at the time. I figured he was a Mexican rock star or something.
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A voice for Latinos
Santa Ana man is the No. 1 morning radio host in Southern California, with an audience of millions.
By CINDY CARCAMO
The Orange County Register
SANTA ANA - Before he became Southern California's No.1 morning disc jockey, Eduardo Sotelo hoped for the impossible.
The 7-year-old grew up in a family that barely earned enough to eat. Still, he yearned for a bicycle he could ride to school.
Selling lemon ice cream in front of his home in Ocotlán, Mexico, wasn't going to cut it. So he scored a job at a bicycle shop, making about five pesos every two weeks. Three pesos went to his mother. The rest funded one bicycle part each payday. The flashy pedals. The rims. The handlebars.
A year later he had built his dream – a burgundy bicycle that he took to school only once before it mysteriously vanished.
It's this determination that pushes him through life. It led him at age 16 to fold himself into the trunk of a car with two others and sneak into the United States.
"I almost lost my life," Sotelo explains. "It makes you appreciate what you have."
Twenty years later, the Saddleback High School graduate has the most morning listeners in Southern California, according to Arbitron's spring ratings. His nationally syndicated show is "El Piolín por la Mañana" ("Tweety Bird in the Morning") on La Nueva 101.9.
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His drive is contagious.
Sotelo helped spur a public wave of activism in the spring that Americans haven't seen in the U.S. since the 1960s. He and other radio personalities urged half a million people to take to the streets across the country, protesting a bill in Congress that would have made it a felony to be in this country illegally.
His voice is often the first many hear while making breakfast, dressing the children for school or on their way to work. He's heard daily by many of the nation's 40 million
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Santa Ana man is the No. 1 morning radio host in Southern California, with an audience of millions.
By CINDY CARCAMO
The Orange County Register
SANTA ANA - Before he became Southern California's No.1 morning disc jockey, Eduardo Sotelo hoped for the impossible.
The 7-year-old grew up in a family that barely earned enough to eat. Still, he yearned for a bicycle he could ride to school.
Selling lemon ice cream in front of his home in Ocotlán, Mexico, wasn't going to cut it. So he scored a job at a bicycle shop, making about five pesos every two weeks. Three pesos went to his mother. The rest funded one bicycle part each payday. The flashy pedals. The rims. The handlebars.
A year later he had built his dream – a burgundy bicycle that he took to school only once before it mysteriously vanished.
It's this determination that pushes him through life. It led him at age 16 to fold himself into the trunk of a car with two others and sneak into the United States.
"I almost lost my life," Sotelo explains. "It makes you appreciate what you have."
Twenty years later, the Saddleback High School graduate has the most morning listeners in Southern California, according to Arbitron's spring ratings. His nationally syndicated show is "El Piolín por la Mañana" ("Tweety Bird in the Morning") on La Nueva 101.9.
• • •
His drive is contagious.
Sotelo helped spur a public wave of activism in the spring that Americans haven't seen in the U.S. since the 1960s. He and other radio personalities urged half a million people to take to the streets across the country, protesting a bill in Congress that would have made it a felony to be in this country illegally.
His voice is often the first many hear while making breakfast, dressing the children for school or on their way to work. He's heard daily by many of the nation's 40 million
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