The Year of Santa Ana
Episode Two: “All About Memo, The Payaso”
8 min readMar 25, 2021
Twenty-four years and three months before Memo moved into his slick new apartment on 17th Street in Santa Ana, he was born Guillermo Mateo de Lhosa in the Central American nation of Nicaragua. He was the only child of a mountain couple who scraped by working on coffee plantations owned by huge multi-national corporations. And then, in 1998, when Memo was…
