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“Ben Ruiz came to this country as a 9-year-old more than 50 years ago by crossing the Rio Grande River near Weslaco, Texas, with his family in a canoe.
His father had to leave their Mexico City home because he was receiving death threats for expressing his opinions.
Ben Ruiz and his family lived in ghettos all over the United States. At 17 he enlisted for a two-year stint in the Marines. He took classes in art design in Houston, Los Angeles and Chicago, and for a time was an English major at New York University.”
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