U.S. gold-medal winning freestyle wrestler Henry Cejudo says “half of my medal is Mexican,” in an article in Spanish in El Pregonero, the Spanish-language newspaper of the Archdiocese of Washington. Cejudo was born in the United States to parents who immigrated without documents to find work and scrambled to keep food on the table. Cejudo says he’s “living the American dream.” A Los Angeles Times article about Cejudo’s background covers some of the same territory in English.
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