I've been working on biographies for my screenplay, "Bordertown." Here's the bio for the main character, Pocho.

Ricardo Martinez Lopez A.K.A. Pocho Martinez, a luchador turned private eye, comes from a family of wrestlers and disillusioned radicals. His grandfather, Juan, was a protest leader, along with the Flores Magn brothers, during Mexico's original student movement in the 1890's. Years later, when the Revolution broke out, Juan left his native Chihuahua to join the Magn-inspired anarchist revolt in Baja California. When federal forces crushed the rebellion, he fled to the US, worked as a farm hand in California's central valley, married and had 10 children, the youngest of whom was Pocho's father, Pascual.

During the 30's, Juan brought the family back to Mexico, back to his native Chihuahua, where he found work in a copper mine, became the leader of a PRI-affiliated union. Now firmly entrenched in the pequea burguesa, he abandoned the radicalism of his youth. In this conservative middle class environment, Pascual spent an uneventful childhood and adoescence. Then, in his mid-teens, a chance encounter with popular wrestler El Demonio Negro sparked Pascual's interest in lucha libre.

Demonio Negro took an interest in Pascual and agreed to train him. Pascual proved an apt pupil and, in a short time, he entered the ring, eventualy donning a mask and taking the name El Destructor. He became popular, even made a couple of lucha movies, but never reached the heights of fame attained by Santo, whose success he greatly resented.

During the 1960's, Pascual's son, Ricardo, went to college, where he followed in his grandfather's footsteps, becoming a student protest leader, along with future guerrilla Jesus Arroyo. After the Tlateloloco massacre, Ricardo gave up on politics. He went into the wrestlling business, becoming the infamous rudo (bad guy) known as Pocho. He worked his way up the ranks, eventually wrestling for the championship against Demonio Negro. In that match, Pocho sustained a career-ending back injury.

At that time (the time of the Lpez Portillo peso crisis), Pocho decided his fortune would be a lot safer in the US. So Pocho,who already owned a home in the US, decided to move there year round. He opened a detective agency in the border town of La Frontera and devoted all his time to building up the business.

He lost touch with his college friend, Jesus, though, awhile back, he read newspaper accounts of Jesus' disappearance and of the efforts by Jesus' mother to obtain answers from the government. He hadn't heard anything recently--not until a routine adultery case led him to an investigation of a political candidate's murder and of the man set up for that murder: Jesus Arroyo!