Jaime Bravo Jaime Bravo Jaime Bravo (September 8, 1932 – February 2, 1970) was a Mexican matador during the 1950s and 1960s. Bravo was known for his death-defying style and numerous relationships with various women and Hollywood starlets. Bravo was born in the infamous Tepito District of México City, to Spanish parents. His way out of the ghetto was as a ' (trapeze artist) for a well known Mexican circus. In his early twenties he stowed away on a ship to Cuba, and then on another to Spain, where he learned his art. Bravo took his ' in Valencia, and was later
Jaime Torres Bodet Mateos. Between 1929 and the outbreak of the Second World War, Torres Bodet held diplomatic positions in Madrid, The Hague, Paris, Buenos Aires and Brussels. He served as director-general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) from 1948 to 1952. From 1955 to 1958 he was Ambassador to France. He received the Medal of Honor Belisario Domínguez from the Senate in 1971. He was also a member of the Mexican Language Academy (the national correspondent agency to the Spanish Royal Academy) and of the National College. Gravely ill, Torres Bodet committed suicide in Mexico City on 13