Oscar Zeta Acosta
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title:
Oscar Zeta Acosta
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Oscar "Zeta" Acosta Fierro was a Mexican American attorney, author and activist in the Chicano Movement. He wrote the semi-autobiographical novels Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (1972) and The Revolt of the Cockroach People (1973), and was friends with American author Hunter S. Thompson. Thompson characterized him as a heavyweight Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo, in his 1971 novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Acosta disappeared in 1974 during a trip in Mexico and is presumed dead.
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Mexican-American attorney, politician and novelist
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Zeta_Acosta
date created:
2003-09-21T04:39:30Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T10:02:08Z
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