The events consulting and public relations firm is marketing Cassandro’s image and legacy, including through merchandise such as t-shirts and dolls, Pina said. He was unavailable to meet with El Paso Matters in time for this story, his publicists said.Īrmendáriz recently signed with Motion Entertainment Lifestyle Networks to create a “new brand and conversation focused on perseverance, inclusivity and faith,” founder John Pina told El Paso Matters. He had a brain embolism in May 2021 and has since been in therapy to try to regain his speech and other motor skills, recently conducting selected interviews via text and through his publicists. Hernandez.Īrmendáriz’s latest battle is aphasia, a disorder resulting from damage to the part of the brain that controls language. Support local! Get your signed copy of “All They Will Call You” at Literarity Book Shop and join us on September 20 to meet El Paso author, Tim Z. And for more than 30 years in the ring, he showcased his flamboyant costumes alongside his athleticism and signature wheelbarrow victory roll – and often, his liplock closing move.Įl Paso Matters Book Club Discussion: “All They Will Call You” ![]() Saul Armendariz, second from left, best known as Cassandro el Exótico, poses with EP Heroes Lucha Libre of New Era Wrestling Entertainment during a “Lucha Libre: Stories from the Ring” exhibit at the El Paso Museum of History in 2021. ![]() It was the early 1990s and the El Paso-born wrestler’s career was taking off, blazing trails as the first openly gay luchador exótico in Mexico. A Spanish version of Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” plays on the intercom as Armendáriz enters the ring. He tops the look with a bejeweled cloak with a train so long that it drags several feet behind his 5-foot-5 frame. He slips into his lycra tights, a shiny spandex singlet and high wrestling boots. He styles his sandy blond hair with a curling iron – and lots and lots of hairspray. ![]() However, Serafin's deception becomes truth as he experiences a long overdue breakdown - which leads to his unexpected salvation at the hands of intriguing hospital laundry attendant Sofia.In the dressing room of the Gimnasio Josué Neri Santos in Ciudad Juárez, Sául Armendáriz carefully applies glimmering eye shadow, long fake lashes and red lipstick. As this relationship threatens to bankrupt him due to Tonka's lavish spending habits, Serafin checks into a mental institution faking mental illness so that his honor and army position may remain intact. Years pass and Serafin has become an enlisted officer in the Empire's army, as well as the lover of a particularly noxious young woman named Tonka. His mother Marija was his only solace from the island's isolation and his father's tirades until her tragic and unexplained death. His father Joseph - the island's lighthouse keeper - ruled his household with an iron hand while making little effort to conceal his affair with his son's nanny Magda. Growing up on an isolated island off the coast of Croatia during the reign of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, young Serafin Skoko's formative years were as repressive as they were lonely. ![]()
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