Rodeo: Etymology: Spanish, from rodear to surround, from rueda:
wheel, from Latin
rota. Dates from 1834 and can be used synonmously with roundup.
A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them. Proverbs 20:26
Go to the referring definition page, and click on the word roundup! It says: A very powerful weed killer. Their commercials are pretty funny with weeds that talk about a "new spray" that killed their friends "from the roots up".
Goosebumps time: "Sephardic Jews were in Texas way before the Alamo was founded in 1718.." "The Mexican Inquisition forced Sephardic Jews to find refuge across the Rio Grande River and in south central Texas, New Mexico and Southern Colorado. They were fleeing the horrific and dehumanizing acts of forced conversions to the Catholic faith through what is called Autos de Fe and wearing of horrible vests called San Benitos. Barbaric acts perpetrated against them included the confiscation of all wealth, the kidnapping of their little children, forcing the first-born sons into Catholic monasteries, psychological as well as physical tortures, hangings, garroting, decapitations, and most predominantly death by hogueras (burning at the stake)."
Read the whole article at The Sephardic Awakening in America.
Luis, in the last paragraph there is reference to Cubans finding out they have Jewish blood and making aliyah. My husband's grandmother's last name was "Barrios". Tell your dad to try to listen to a Miami station 1080 a.m. on Wednesdays, 6:30-7:00 p.m., program in Spanish "Shema Israel". They talk about this a lot and will investigate last names. Unfortunately it's not online, you have to live in Miami to be able to get the station.