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Carlos Gutierrez, Bush’s pick for Commerce Secretary, was born to a wealthy pineapple plantation owner in Havana, Mr Gutierrez and his family were forced to flee Cuba for Miami in 1960 when Mr Castro expropriated his father's business. He says he learned English from the bellhops at Miami's Richmond hotel while his family waited to return home.
His father joined the Heinz company and moved his family to Mexico, where Carlos skipped college and went to work for Kellogg selling Frosted Flakes to small Mexican grocers.
How did Carlos move up at Kellogg’s?
Some stories say he started as a salesman, others as a truck driver – others that he skipped college in order to sell Corn Flakes to Mexican grocers. Yet another story has it that he began his career in Mexico City as a sales and marketing trainee for the Battle Creek, Mich., cereal giant.
Some stories have his family in Cuba when Castro took over and that they left they were only allowed to take 2,000 dollars. That’s how he ‘sort of’ started from scratch. 2,000 1960 dollars are worth over 12,000 in 2004 dollars.
In their dire straits they then stayed at a Miami hotel for weeks while his father looked for business opportunities.
Another story has them ‘trapped’ in Miami (they were on vacation) and with no way to get home the destitute Carlos had to learn English from American bellhops
A third story has the crafty Daddy Pedro moving the family to avoid Castro.
Apparently due to his father’s fruit connections daddy Pedro got on with Heinz (that’s one of the stories) and the family bounced around between the Miami, New York, Mexico and some stories add Nicaragua.
Statement of Pedro Gutierrez Valencia
On December 2, 1963 Senor Pedro Gutierrez Valencia wrote a letter to President Johnson, in Spanish, in which he stated that in the course of his duties as a credit investigator for a large department store in Mexico City he was in the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City on September 30, 1963 or October 1, 1963 for the purpose of conducting an investigation of one of its employees. The letter went on to say that as he was leaving the embassy he overheard a heated discussion on English between two men, one a Cuban and the other an American , in which he could understand only the words “Castro”, “Cuba”, and “Kennedy.”
Later Pedro Gutierrez Valencia became ‘confused’ during interviews and his testimony was ultimately ignored.
Traditionally, if John Smith and Nancy Jones, who live in an English-speaking country, get married and have a son, he would end up with a name such as Chris Smith. But it's not the same in most areas where Spanish is spoken as the native language. If Juan López Marcos marries María Covas Callas, their child would end up with a name such as Mario López Covas. The matter of Spanish surnames might seem confusing at first, but that's mostly because it's different. Although there are numerous variations of how names are handled, just as there can be in English. The basic rule of Spanish names is fairly simple: In general, a person born into a Spanish-speaking family is given a first name followed by two surnames, the first being the father's family name (or, more precisely, the surname he gained from his father) followed by the mother's family name (or, again more precisely, the surname she gained from her father).
So – if Pedro Gutierrez Valencia were to marry Maria Gonzalez Lopez and had a child named Carlos the boy would be named Carlos Gutierrez Gonzalez. If the boy now a man moved to the United States he would Americanize his name by dropping his mother’s last name and end up with :
Carlos Gutierrez