Poet Luis Rodriguez created Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural and bookstore to help save others.
Luis Rodriguez is not particularly interested in genesis stories. This may be because his isn’t pretty: As a young teen, Mr. Rodriguez got sucked into Los Angeles’s violent gang culture. He started stealing, but eventually he was involved in drive-by shootings and arrested for attempted murder. He stayed in the gang world for seven years, and even when he’d left, some of the nastier habits stayed. Rodriguez was a drug addict and an alcoholic.
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