Gustavo Arellano is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, covering Southern California everything and a bunch of the West and beyond. He previously worked at OC Weekly, where he was an investigative reporter for 15 years and editor for six, wrote a column called ?Ask a Mexican! and is the author of ¡°Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America.¡± He¡¯s the child of two Mexican immigrants, one of whom came to this country in the trunk of a Chevy.
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