
Andres Bermudez, who made a fortune as a “tomato king” and history by becoming the first migrant living in the United States to win a Mexican mayorship, has died of cancer. He was 58. Bermudez, a flamboyant lawmaker for President Felipe Calderon’s National Action Party, or PAN, died Thursday, the party said in a statement. He had battled stomach cancer since March. He died at a hospital in Houston, where he was receiving treatment since December, the daily newspaper El Sol de Zacatecas reported. Andres Bermudez left Zacatecas state as an impoverished field hand in 1974. He and his ….Read More
