Eulogy: 20 Things You Didn’t Know About Jaime O. Perez, 1954–2017, QDEP
The late Jaime O. Perez was a political Maverick. He graduated from Bel Air High School in El Paso, Texas in the early 1970s.
He received a bachelor of arts degree in government from Brandeis University. Brandeis is located 9 miles from Boston. The student body at Brandeis in Jaime’s day was 92% Jewish. Political activists Abbie Hoffman and Angela Davis attended Brandeis, then a Chicano from El Paso — Jaime O. Perez showed up . The school was never the same afterwards. Jaime was elected Vice-President of the Student Body at Brandeis. He went on to receive his Master of Arts degree from UC Berkeley. He also studied at El Colegio de Mexico. He was also mentor at Casa Joaquin Murrieta at UC Berkeley.
Jaime was an Author/Writer
Jaime was the author of Traditional Ceremonial Pathways: A Pilgrim’s Journey that he published in (2003, Sun Circle Press) and was the translator for Tzol Ek: Mayan Astrology (1991, Communidad Indigena Maya). He was fluent (reading and writing) in Spanish and English. On January 26, 2017, Jaime wrote an opinion piece in Spanish for Paso del Norte Magazine titled: “Estados Unidos declara Guerra a Mexico, “The United States Will Declare War Against Mexico.”
