Jaime Bravo early training as a "trapezista" saved his life in the bull ring many times. A native of Mexico City, Jaime seldom fought there because he was so popular in border towns like Tijuana. Bravo also had the uncanny knack of utilizing scandal to garner headlines. During an August 1968 "corrida", playing to the tourist crowds of Tijuana, Bravo "requested the animal be spared. This, in turn, was denied, and the torero [Bravo] who refused to kill the bull was escorted to the local jail and fined". Bravo received headlines for his defiance. Only one month earlier, at a July 1968
Carlos Carmelo Vasconcellos Motta Carlos Carmelo Vasconcellos Motta Carlos Carmelo Vasconcellos Motta (July 16, 1890 in Bom Jesus do Amparo, archdiocese of Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil – September 18, 1982 in Aparecida, São Paulo, Brazil) was a long-serving cardinal. Until Eugênio de Araújo Sales surpassed him in 2005, he was the longest-serving Brazilian cardinal, and during his cardinalate the Church in Brazil underwent tremendous expansion, involving the development of many new movements that were to develop after he had largely disappeared from the scene. Originally from a small village in the state of Minas Gerais, the future Cardinal gained his education in the local