Carlos Hubbard, the Sinaloan who was a friend of Pedro Infante

Mexico. Don Carlos Hubbard Rojas was a Sinaloan who earned his living performing various trades, including transporter, merchant, musician, political journalist and even chronicler, mainly from his homeland Rosario, Sinaloa, where his remains are respared since 2002.Carlos Hubbard was an exemplary Sinaloan who lives in the thought and memory of many of his countrymen, but his life was also linked to that of his countrymen Pedro Infante and Lola Beltrán, of whom he was a friend and the three witnessed among themselves how he spent his life in the personal and professional aspect. According to information provided to DEBATE by his son, Ambassador Enrique Hubbard Urrea, Don Carlos was a good friend from a young age of the singer Lola Beltrán, who died in 1996 at the age of 62, and he was the one who promoted her in her artistic beginnings, since he would help her to position herself as a secretary in the radio station XEW, Together they went through life sharing their respective achievements, and the same would happen with the immortal Pedro Infante, who died in 1957 at the age of 39 and who in his youth would have insisted to Don Carlos to teach him to press the guitar well, given his knowledge in music, and agreed; that would be one of the memories that Don Carlos always carried regarding Pedro. Don Carlos Hubbard Rojas with his wife in a quinceañera. Photo: Courtesy Enrique Hubbard Urrea The anecdote that Mr. Hubbard was one of the first teachers of Infante would always tell it and also both could remember it while they lived, they also had the opportunity through the years to continue loving and sharing on countless occasions together in different events. When Pedro Infante became famous he never forgot Mr. Hubbard, he also stands out in the biography of the latter, and another of the anecdotes that are told is that often the famous actor of films such as Two types of care asked Mr. Hubbard to make him the family pantry and bring him chorizo from El Rosario, that he liked so much. Don Carlos was a lover of reading and was trained to perform in his life different positions, including court clerk, accountant, professor, historian, journalist and editor, and one of his personal characteristics was that he was a self-confident man. Speaking to DEBATE, his son, Ambassador Enrique Hubbard Urrea, who lives in Culiacán, Sinaloa, evokes his father and points out that he remembers him as a formidable character from whom he and his brothers learned many things.” Although he barely attended primary school and a special course taught by Maestro Julio Hernández, his passion for reading made him acquire a broad, diverse and multifaceted culture. There was no subject that he did not master. In my childhood he was concerned with instilling in me that same love for books, always under his direction and guidance.” Mr. Hubbard Urrea also points out that his father would have perceived in him a “something special” since his adolescence, since that led him in part to introduce him to universal culture: “it was the prelude to an eventual diplomatic career of a lifetime.  The many facets of his personality were very broad, diverse. He was also court clerk and four times secretary of the city council, successful merchant, writer, journalist, “emphasizes the Sinaloan. Carlos Hubbard with Pedro Infante and some friends and the child is Enrique Hubbard Urrea, son of Don Carlos. Photo: Courtesy of Enrique Hubbard Urrea Don Carlos was also a fishing entrepreneur, builder, distributor of bottled soft drinks, beer concessionaire, actor and owner of the famous Pedro Infante cinema and was also characterized by being a constant social fighter, since he managed, processed and paved all kinds of processes to help others, even influenced a lot to build the municipal market, kindergarten, high school, high school, in Rosario, Sinaloa, Mexico, among other achievements. Don Carlos was a lover of music throughout his life, mainly that of Agustín Lara, and at one stage of his life he made a dumbbell with Ángel Infante, the older brother of Pedro Infante, and together they carried serenades between Navolato and Culiacán along with characters of the stature of Enrique Sánchez Alonso “Negrumo”. Don Carlos R. Hubbard was born in El Rosario, Sinaloa on December 26, 1912, he was the son of the American Harry Hubbard, in turn son of Albert Oscar Hubbard and Eda Jenkins; Carlos Hubbard Rojas’ mother was Emilia Rojas Zatarain, originally from Concordia and a descendant of Antonio Rojas and Francisca Zatarain. In 1914, Don Carlos was orphaned by his father. Hubbard Rojas had as children Carlos Augusto Hubbard Osuna. Raúl Armando (Manru), Virginia Emilia (Mona, QEPD), Iván, Diana, Jesús Mauricio (Chito) Marcial, Enrique, Jorge Alberto, Jaime, Fausto, Irma Cristina (QEPD), Nancy (twin, but the child was stillborn) and Melba.In his role as a journalist, Carlos Hubbard Rojas was in charge of newspapers such as Rumbos, a weekly newspaper founded in 1953, where he worked as a reporter, columnist, editor-in-chief, administrator, publicist, director and editor. In the section It happened in the week he reviewed the most outstanding events in social, commerce and culture, and in that way the rosarenses learned what was happening in the society of that time; as a writer he was able to edit several books, including Mi Barrio del 22, Los Chupapiedras, Cuentos de mi Rosario and Historias de un Mineral, which tell the story of the town. Ambassador Enrique Hubbard Urrea, his wife Carlos Hubbard was distinguished with the title of Chronicler of the City for his qualities and work as an amateur historian and enthusiastic follower of the “micro history” of his hometownRead more: They are identical! This is what Sandra Echeverría looks like as María Félix and son igualitasDon Carlos Hubbard Rojas received the Sinaloa prize for journalism (1981), had Rosalva Urrea Murray as his wife and unfortunately he died in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, on January 26, 2002 and his remains rest in his native Rosario. Joke or insult? Lilly Téllez exposes AMLO’s peculiar ringtone (VIDEO)

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