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Dora Moroni

Dora Moroni was born in December 14, 1956 in Ravenna, Italy. Dora moroni is a very well-known Italian singer, actress and dancer.

Dora Moroni demostrated to be a bright star very early in her life; at age 8, in 1964, after having participated in many music and singing contests, Dora won her first at her hometown Ravenna.

In 1974, Dora Moroni participated in a televized music contest, where she met famous Italian personalities, to include TV and radio host Corrado Mantoni, simply known as "Corrado" by his followers. Corrado will become an active participant in Dora's career few years later in her life.

In 1975, Dora Moroni poses for a variety magazine in Spain, where Dora moved months earlier to start her acting career, however, Corrado offered Dora the opportunity to conduct her very own show from 1976 to 1977. The show was called "Domenica in..." and it became a instataneous success, hitting the ratings at 18 million specatators in its first months in the air. Furthermore, while still hosting her show, Dora Moroni starts singing again, recording two songs ritten for her by the same Corrado. Both becaome top hits in the charts in 1977.

The very talented Dora Moroni also shot many photo-romance novels, very popular in Italy at the time, and also participated in various TV shows all over Italy between 1976 and 1978.

Dora Moroni's top hits over the years:
1977 - Ma...se... (45 giri) 1977 - Soli (45 giri) 1978 - Ora (45 giri)

1978 - Che facciamo stasera (45 giri)

1978 - Dora Moroni in... (33 giri) 1983 - Buona giornata (45 giri) 1995 - Parlami (con Christian)

REAL LIFE STORY BEHIND THE MOVIE "SCARFACE"
REAL LIFE STORY BEHIND THE MOVIE "SCARFACE" Written by Boris F. Pallominy

The movie “Scarface” with Al Pacino, and directed by Brian DePalma, is based on a true story that took place, and was still evolving about the time the movie was shot. This story is very violent, and started a couple of years earlier, with characters both in the USA and in Bolivia, which crossed the borders back and forth in the commission of their crimes, and later in life when they had to run from the law.

The actual story is more complicated and interesting than what one sees in the movie “Scarface”.

Everything started in Bolivia in July 1980, with a violent coup d'etat by the extreme "right wing" members of the Bolivian Military who were not satisfied with the civilian government at the time. The right-wing military officers involved in the coup d'etat were headed by General Luis Garcia Meza Tejada. This group of Bolivian Military high-ranking Officers first pressured the then lawfully elected President of Bolivia, Lydia Gueiller Tejada, to appoint General García Meza as Commander in Chief of the entire Bolivian Army. Few months later, a military "Junta" was formed. A military Junta is a powerful body composed of all the country's Military Generals coming together to decide over national matters without the participation of the civilian government; The history of the Junta is that it was created in times of distress or when the civilian government was abusing its power or conducting unlawful acts against the people of the country. The Junta created then in Bolivia was unlawful in itself, since there was no distress in the country and the civilian government was not committing any abuses over the people. The Junta headed by Garcia Meza was created with the purpose of taking over power by force, and it is know that money for the Junta’s activities came from illicit sources. Anyway, the "Junta," headed by General Luis Garcia Meza, forced a violent Coup d'etat, sometimes referred to as the "Cocaine Coup" in July 17 1980 (wikipedia.org), this coup d’etat put General Garcia Meza on the top of the pyramid and granted unlimited authority without civilian approval.

As stated earlier, months before Garcia Meza's coup d'etat, the right-wing military refused to surrender their absolute power, especially after been in government dictatorships for so long, before the people of Bolivia decided to go back to democracy. Additionally, much of the officers involved in this coup d'etat, were the same officers involved in the General Hugo Banzer Suarez's dictatorship of the early 1970's. These officers also felt the pressure to re-take power from the civilian government due to the increasing pressure to investigate the economic and human right abuses committed by them while in power (wikipedia.org). Once Garcia Meza took over power by force, he named the then Army Colonel Luis Arce Gomez, as his Minister of the Interior, and gave him unlimited powers over life and death of the Bolivian citizens. Arce Gomez, is actually portrayed in the Scarface movie as one of the associates of Tony Montana's powerful cocaine supplier Alejandro Sosa. Furthermore, in the scene where Sosa seeks Montana's help to get rid of a political adversary in Washington DC, the president of Bolivia's name is mentioned as one of Sosa’s co-associates, but of course, the name is changed from Army General Luis Garcia Meza, the real name of the cocaine Bolivian President, to General Cucombre. Additionally, the reason why Sosa wants Montana to help him, is to prevent the speech of a Bolivian political activist, who went to New York to speak in front of the United Nations to get help to destitute Garcia Meza from power. This episode is real, and the video shown by Sosa in his Bolivian mansion to Montana, and his other high-ranking government associates, is a real documentary aired in CBS’s “60 minutes.” In the documentary, this Bolivian political activist, denounces the involvement of the Bolivian government in drug trafficking activities, and names with all the letters, all three players in the cocaine trafficking from Bolivia to the USA: ·	Bolivian President General Luis Garcia Meza, ·	Bolivian Minister of the Interior Colonel Luis Arce Gomez, and ·	drug lord Bolivian entrepreneur Roberto Suarez Gomez, “the King of Cocaine”.

Furthermore, the character of Alejandro Sosa in the movie, is based on a real-life Bolivian drug lord, Mr. Roberto Suarez, “the King of Cocaine."

For more information on Roberto Suarez Gomez, go to the following link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Su%C3%A1rez_Gom%C3%A9z

Roberto Suarez Gomez, established connections and deals with both, General Garcia Meza and Colonel Luis Arce Gomez, "the minister of Cocaine," to get protection for his drug trafficking activities, which included production of cocaine in Bolivia, and exportation of cocaine to the USA. It is estimated that Roberto Suarez Gomez made an average of six hundred million dollars a year, in 1980's dollars, some 1500 million dollars a year in today's dollars. Roberto Suarez Gomez was so filthy rich and cocky, that he contacted both presidents, President Ronald Reagan of the USA, and the then president of Bolivia in 1983, and offered to pay off the entire Bolivian International debt in one payment, in exchange for immunity for his drug-trafficking activities in the USA and Bolivia (wikipedia.org). At the time, the Bolivian International Debt was 3 billion dollars, 1980's dollars. Nobody knows what ever happened with this offer. At the end, the fictional character Alejandro Sosa from the movie, looks like a poor drug dealer when compared to Roberto Suarez Gomez, the King of Cocaine, who is actually the one who started the Pablo Escobar saga, since Suarez Gomez made Pablo Escobar from a street level dealer, into what he became after Roberto Suarez stepped down of the business due to family and legal problems in Bolivia and the USA. Finally, it is calculated that about 1000 people in Bolivia, and about 450 people in Miami, USA and in Colombia, lost their lives as a direct result of the deals and connections of these nefarious Bolivian strong men: Luis Garcia Meza, Luis Arce Gomez, and Roberto Suarez Gomez.

The Garcia Meza dictatorship was short-lived, only held the country’s government for 13 months, before Garcia Meza was forced to turn over power to yet another Army General, Celso Torrelio Villa, in August 3, 1981. Regardless of its length in power, the Garcia Meza dictatorship has left a profound mark in the Bolivian history and in the minds of the Bolivian and the USA people, not only because of the violence and civil rights abuse, but also because it created a stage in the history of both counties, deeply marked by money, corruption, abuse, drugs, libertinage, street violence, and the wrong way of pursuing the American Dream. For more information on General Luis Garcia Meza, go to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Arce_G%C3%B3mez

So when you ask if Scarface, the movie is based in real life, I have to say that unfortunately yes, and add that what happened in real life is way worst than what you see in the movie. If you have any questions, e-mail me at: pallominy@msn.com

REFERENCES

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Pallominy, the origin of the last name.
Last name: Pallominy (Italian)

Original form: Palumbo (Roman, Latin)

Meaning: Dove

The last name Pallominy is an Italian last name that has its roots in the old Roman name "Palumbo". The last name Palumbo is a word in Latin, and has pre-Christian origins. Research has shown that the last name "Palumbo" originated as the nickname of an individual, later becoming the last name of the descendants of that first member of the family, the first Palumbo. Palumbo means 'dove' in Latin, and it is believed that in ancient Rome, people started calling "Palumbo," as a nickname, to that first individual which gave origin to the Palumbo family name. It is a well-known fact, that ancient Romans, traditionally named individuals based on their personal traits, their looks, any defects or the family's occupation or source of wealth. Examples of this custom are: the name Celsus, which means "tall"; Cato which means "wise"; Cicero which means "chickpea"; Priscus which means "ancient, old" and so forth. It is highly probably that the first Palumbo had something to do with doves or "a" dove. It is probable that he exclusively sacrificed doves to the gods in their Temples; or maybe a dove appeared in the sky when he was giving a speech, or when Palumbo was in battle; at the end, we will never know why people started calling him "Palumbo". In support of the above, Archeologist have found graffiti in Rome about a Roman gladiator called Palumbo. The graffiti is very early, maybe from the first century BC. The graffiti mentions Palumbo's prowess as a champion gladiator and how women were in love with him, and the populace adored him. One can speculate that that gladiator was the first Palumbo in the family line, or just a descendant of an earlier Palumbo. However, one thing is certain, the first member of the Palumbo family got his name as a nickname which stuck, and later became his real name, and then the last name of a long line of individuals, which branched out bearing not only their last name in the original form "Palumbo", but in many different variants and spellings.

Historical research has shown that the original "Palumbo" has been spelled and misspelled over the centuries, and millennia, not only in Italy, but where ever the descendants of that first Roman Palumbo had emigrated to live or settle. These variants and different spellings, include: Palomba, Palombi, Palombe Palombini, Pallombini, Palumbi, Palaminy, Pallumbo and Pallominy. We know this by tracking and researching historical documents, such as church and court papers in different countries. For instance, the last name "Palumbo" appears in church records as early as the 4th century AD. Also, Palumbo appears in many court records and other historical documents all over Italy and Western Europe. These papers document facts involving the Palumbo, that span over many centuries from the 4th to the 11th century AD. By tracking these church and court records, we can trace the migration trail of the Palumbo family from their origin in ancient Rome to other regions of Italy, Western Europe and later, the Americas. The Palumbo family members moved mostly to the north of the Italian peninsula, to regions such as Tuscany, Liguria, Piemonte and the Valle D'Aosta. Many Palumbo members moved to the Republic of Venice in the 1100's, as trade record show. Additionally, it appears that some members of the family settled in the south of France and founded the town of "Palaminy", in or around the end of the Frankish conquests and reign. During the Middle Ages Palaminy was under the rule of the Counts of Toulouse, the Counts of Foix and the Counts of Comminges. Additionally, during the middle ages, the city of Palaminy was an obligatory stage for the pilgrims in their way to, and from the Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia. It is believed that the above mentioned pilgrimage to Spain is what moved some of the Palumbo descendants, and the last name, to Spain, where some variants of Palumbo are recorded in court records starting in the Middle Ages. From Spain, the last name Palumbo and its various forms, were brought to Latin America after the discovery by Christopher Columbus. In Latin America and in North America, we find the last name Palumbo, transformed into different spellings, such as: Palumbo, Palomba, Palumbe, Palomino Palomeny and other forms.

Back in Italy, Palumbo and related spellings and variations of this last name, appear in court papers again. For example, in 1583 in Messina, apparently a Francesco Palumbo served as a witness in a jury trial. Also, a Sebastian Palumbo, was baptized at Monteveglo, Bologna, around the same time. Although Italian last names are traditionally the most difficult of all European languages to research genealogically, because the spelling of a given last name varies from time to time and from town to town, it is still relatively easy to trace a last name like Palumbo over the centuries. It looks like the Palumbo family branched out to England as well. In the 18th century, church records show, an Italian, Arcangelo Palumbo, married an English noble woman, Elizabeth Gray at St Anne's church, Soho, Westminster, on September 23rd 1758. By way of this marriage, Arcangelo Palumbo rose to the noble ranks of England as the new Lord Palumbo, considered a life peer, and passing the title to his descendants in England. Finally, in the new world records show that the Palumbo came to the USA from England and Italy; and that the Palumbo came to Latin America from Spain and Italy. Today, the descendants of that early Roman Palumbo family can be found in every country in the Western hemisphere.