Lê Quang Vinh
Lê Quang Vinh
Nickname	Ba Cụt
Born	c. 1923 Long Xuyên, Vietnam, French Indochina
Died	13 July 1956 Cần Thơ, South Vietnam
Allegiance	Hòa Hảo, which frequently made short-term alliances with many other Vietnamese groups
Years of service	1943/44–1956
Rank	Brigadier General
Commands held	Commander of the military forces of the Hòa Hảo religious sect

Lê Quang Vinh (1923 – 13 July 1956), popularly known as Ba Cụt (Short Third in Vietnamese, referring to the finger he himself had partially severed), was a military commander of the Hòa Hảo religious sect, which operated from the Mekong Delta and controlled various parts of southern Vietnam during the 1940s and early 1950s.

Ba Cụt and his forces fought the Vietnamese National Army (VNA), the Việt Minh, and the Cao Đài religious movement from 1943 until his capture in 1956. Known for his idiosyncrasies, he was regarded as an erratic and cruel leader who fought with little ideological purpose. His sobriquet came from the self-amputation of a finger as part of a vow during his teenage years to defeat the French colonial forces; he later swore not to cut his hair until the communist Việt Minh were defeated. Ba Cụt frequently made alliances with various Vietnamese factions and the French. He invariably accepted the material support offered in return for his cooperation, and then broke the agreement—nevertheless, the French made deals with him on five occasions. The French position was weak because their military forces had been depleted by World War II, and they had great difficulty in re-establishing control over French Indochina, which had been left with a power vacuum after the defeat of Japan.

In mid-1955, the tide turned against the various sects, as Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm of the State of Vietnam and his VNA began to consolidate their grip on the south. Ba Cụt and his allies were driven into the jungle, and their position was threatened by government offensives. After almost a year of fighting, Ba Cụt was captured. He was sentenced to death and publicly beheaded in Cần Thơ.

Early life and background[link]

Huỳnh Phú Sổ, the leader of the Hòa Hảo

Ba Cụt was born circa 1923 in Long Xuyên,^[1] a regional town in the Mekong Delta, in the far south of Vietnam. He was orphaned at an early age and adopted by a local peasant family. Ba Cụt was illiterate and was known from childhood as a temperamental and fiery person.^[1] The family's rice paddies were confiscated by a prominent landlord,^[1] the father of Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ. Ba Cụt's bitter personal experience imbued him with a permanent and fanatical hatred towards landowners.^[1] Thơ rose to become a leading politician in the 1950s and played a key role in Ba Cụt's eventual capture and execution.^[2]

Vietnam was a tumultuous place during Ba Cụt's youth, particularly in the Mekong Delta. In 1939, Huỳnh Phú Sổ founded the Hòa Hảo religious movement, and within a year had gained more than 100,000 followers. He drew adherents for two reasons: the prophecies he made about the outbreak of World War II and the conquest of South-East Asia by Japan, which proved to be correct; and his work as a mystical healer—his patients claimed to have been miraculously cured from all manner of serious illnesses after seeing him, when Western medicine had failed.^[3][4] Sổ's cult-like appeal greatly alarmed the French colonial authorities.^[5] During World War II, Imperial Japan invaded and seized control of Vietnam from France; its defeat and withdrawal at the end of the war in 1945 left a power vacuum in the country.^[6]

The Hòa Hảo formed their own army and administration during the war, and started a de facto state in their Mekong Delta stronghold. They came into conflict with the Cao Đài, another new religious movement, which also boasted a private army and controlled a nearby region of southern Vietnam centred around Tây Ninh.^[7] Meanwhile in Saigon, the Bình Xuyên organised crime syndicate ruled much of the city through its gangster militia.^[8] These three southern forces vied for control of southern Vietnam with the main protagonists: the French, who were attempting to re-establish colonial control across the entire nation; and the communist-dominated Việt Minh, who sought Vietnamese independence.^[4]

At the time, the many groups vying for power—including their respective factions—engaged in alliances of convenience that were frequently broken. Historian David Elliott wrote: "[T]he most important eventual cause of the French decline was the inherently unstable nature of the political alliances they had devised ... [T]he history of the French relations with the Hoa Hao sect is a telling illustration of the pitfalls of short-term political deals between forces whose long-term interests conflict."^[9]

The Hòa Hảo initially engaged in large-scale clashes with the Việt Minh in 1945, but by mid-1946 the two groups had agreed to stop fighting each other and fight the French instead. However, in June 1946, Sổ became estranged from his military leaders and started the Dan Xa (Social Democratic Party).^[9] Because of his charisma, the Việt Minh saw Sổ as a threat and assassinated him, leaving the Hòa Hảo leaderless and causing Sổ's military leaders to go their separate ways. The split caused an increase in violence as the various Hòa Hảo factions engaged in conflicts among themselves.^[10]

Career[link]

Ba Cụt joined the Hòa Hảo militia when it was formed in 1943–44, and became a commander within a year.^[1] He was feared by his enemies, and was described as "a sort of lean Rasputin"^[11] who claimed to be immortal.^[12] According to historian and writer Bernard Fall, "The hapless farmers who were under the rule of the maniacal Ba Cut fared worse [than those under other military leaders], for the latter [Ba Cụt] was given to fits of incredible cruelty and had no sense of public duty."^[13] American journalist Joseph Alsop described Ba Cụt as "war-drunk".^[14] Ba Cụt was famous for inventing a torture contraption that drilled a steel nail through the victim's ear^[15], a device he used to extort villagers and wealthy landlords to fund his forces.^[16] He was said to have "arranged temporary marriages between his troops and village girls".^[12] He raised a large amount of funds for the Hòa Hảo and himself personally by charging traders and landlords high prices to stop pirates in the local area. The decapitated heads of the pirates were subsequently impaled on stakes and put on public display.^[17]

In 1947, he led his own faction of the sect after its various military leaders pursued their own policies towards the French and Hồ Chí Minh's Việt Minh in the wake of Sổ's death. At the time, France was in a ruinous financial state following World War II and was experiencing great difficulty in its attempts to re-establish control over its colonies.^[18] Ba Cụt had only 1,000 men in five battalions at the time, fewer than 5% of Hòa Hảo forces, whereas Trần Văn Soái had 15,000 men.^[19] The French tried to maintain their hold with a divide and conquer strategy towards the Hòa Hảo.^[19] They coaxed Soái into joining with them and recognised him as the leader of the Hòa Hảo. In 1948, Ba Cụt rallied to the French and Soái, but broke away again soon after, relocating to Đồng Tháp Mười and resuming his military activities against the French.^[19]

In 1950, Ba Cụt was involved in a battle with another Hòa Hảo leader, Nguyen Giac Ngo. He was defeated and driven from the district of Chợ Mới in February, provoking Soái to attack Ngo.^[19][20] Ba Cut then moved to Thot Not and began attacking the civilians and the French forces there.^[19] The French saw the disagreements as an opportunity to divide the Hòa Hảo and gain an anti-Việt Minh ally, and offered material aid, which Ba Cụt accepted.^[20] Ba Cụt repeatedly made treaties with the French colonial forces to fight the Việt Minh in return for arms and money, but he broke his end of the bargain and sometimes fought the Cao Đài instead of the communists. He made five such deals with the French, but he abandoned his military responsibilities each time.^[13][21] It was said that Ba Cụt sometimes broke away with the encouragement of Soái, who was still allied to the French, but nevertheless is believed to have given Ba Cụt weapons to fight the French.^[12] The French continued to furnish him with supplies despite his disloyalty and unreliability because they lacked the personnel to patrol all of Vietnam but had spare equipment.^[9] Some historians have claimed Ba Cụt's anti-French activities were not taken seriously as he was able to pass through French checkpoints without incident. There are also reports that he was accompanied by French intelligence agents during periods when he was nominally opposed to the French.^[22] The other Hòa Hảo commanders generally had the same general outlook as Ba Cụt; they were stridently opposed to the Việt Minh due to Sổ's assassination, and sometimes fought alongside and received supplies from the French, but at times they lapsed into apathy and refused to attack.^[10][20]

The most notable instance of Ba Cụt's abandoning the fight against the Việt Minh came in mid-1953. At that time, his forces had been helping to defend the regional Mekong Delta town of Mỹ Tho, but the French decided to transfer more of the military power to their more mainstream allies, the Vietnamese National Army (VNA). As the French tried to undermine his position, tensions with Ba Cụt increased. On 25 June, the Hòa Hảo leader ordered his men to evacuate their French-supplied bases; they took their weapons with them and razed the camps.^[10] Ba Cụt then withdrew his forces from a string of military posts in the Plain of Reeds and retreated to Châu Đốc in the extreme south of the country.^[23] As a result, the French-aligned presence in the Mekong Delta was severely dented and the Việt Minh made substantial gains in the area.^[24] Eventually, the French defeat at Điện Biên Phủ in May 1954 signalled the end of French Indochina.^[25]

When the Geneva Conference in July 1954 ended the First Indochina War, it handed North Vietnam to Hồ Chí Minh's Việt Minh, and the south to the State of Vietnam. To reunify the country, national elections were scheduled for 1956, following which the French would withdraw from Indochina.^[26] The partition of Vietnam angered Ba Cụt and he vowed not to cut his hair until the nation was reunified. Having fought against the Việt Minh since 1947, Ba Cụt's principal criticism of Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm's State of Vietnam government stemmed from his belief that Diệm had been too passive in rejecting the partition, and that half of the country should not have been yielded to the communists.^[27]

In mid-1954, General Nguyễn Văn Hinh, the head of the State of Vietnam's VNA, announced that he did not respect the leadership of Prime Minister Diệm, and vowed to overthrow him. The coup never materialised and Hinh was forced into exile^[28], but not before appointing Ba Cụt to the rank of colonel in the VNA in an attempt to undermine Diệm, as the Hòa Hảo warlord was openly contemptuous of the prime minister.^[29] In August, Ba Cụt and his 3,000 men broke from the VNA and left their Thot Not base for the jungle, and fought against those who had briefly been their comrades; this put him at odds with most Hòa Hảo leaders, who accepted government payments to integrate their forces into the VNA.^[30][31] Operation Ecaille,^[32] the initial military offensive by the VNA against Ba Cụt was a failure, possibly because the details of the planned attack on his forces were leaked to him by Soai, a Hòa Hảo member of the National Defence Committee.^[33]

During the transition period between the signing of the Geneva Accords and the planned reunification elections, South Vietnam remained in chaos as the VNA tried to subdue the remaining autonomous factions of the Hòa Hảo, Cao Đài, and Bình Xuyên militias. In early 1955, during a battle with the Cao Đài forces of Trình Minh Thế, after a dispute over control of the That Son region, Ba Cụt was wounded in a disputed incident. The claimed to have tried initiating peace talks with Ba Cụt, but received no reply, so he decided to try to capture his rival. He sent some of his militant disciples to infiltrate Ba Cụt's forces and try to capture the Hòa Hảo leader. When they located Ba Cụt and surrounded him, he refused to surrender but instead tried to shoot his way out.^[32] Ba Cụt was severely wounded by a bullet that penetrated his chest. It seemed that he would die, but a French Air Force helicopter flew in and airlifted him to a colonial hospital. He recovered but in the interim the fighting stopped.^[34] Another account claims the two military leaders had been on good terms and exchanging diplomatic missions, but that the skirmish was caused by one of Ba Cụt's aides addressing a The envoy in an abrasive and rude manner, and that the injuries were minor.^[32] Yet another account holds that the reaction by Thế's envoy was premeditated and that the claim the firing was in response to rudeness was merely a cover for an assassination attempt. According to this theory, Thế, whose units were then being integrated into Diệm's VNA, had given orders to target Ba Cụt. This was allegedly done on the orders of CIA agent Edward Lansdale, who was trying to help secure Diệm in power at the time. Lansdale has been accused of failing in an earlier attempt to bribe Ba Cụt to cease his activities.^[32]

By this time, with France preparing to withdraw from Indochina, senior French officers had begun to undermine Diệm's leadership and his attempts to stabilise South Vietnam.^[35] The VNA later implicated the French in the organisation of weapons air drops to Ba Cụt, prompting a protest from Diệm's government.^[36] Diệm complained to a French general, alleging that Ba Cụt's men were using French equipment that was of higher quality than that given to the VNA.^[37] The Hòa Hảo accused Diệm of treachery in his negotiations with various groups. They charged the prime minister with integrating The's forces into the VNA in return for them being allowed to attack Ba Cụt with the aid of the VNA, and that this part of the deal had been kept secret. They warned that other Hòa Hảo leaders who had stopped fighting could join Ba Cụt, and appealed to Diệm's U.S. sponsors. In response, Ba Cụt ambushed a VNA unit in Long My, killing three officers and injuring some thirty men.^[38]

Last stand against Diệm[link]

Ngô Đình Diệm, the Prime Minister of the State of Vietnam

In 1955, Diệm tried to integrate the remaining Hòa Hảo armies into the VNA. Ba Cụt was one of four Hòa Hảo military leaders who refused the government offer on 23 April^[39], and continued to operate autonomously.^[40] At one stage, the Cao Đài, Hòa Hảo and Bình Xuyên formed an alliance called the United Front, in an attempt to pressure Diệm into handing over power^[41]; Ba Cụt was named senior military commander.^[42] However, this had little meaning as the various units were still autonomous of each other, and the United Front was more a showpiece than a means of facilitating coordinated action, and did not in any way strengthen any military threat to Diệm. The leaders were suspicious of one another and often sent subordinates to meetings.^[43] Initially, American and French representatives in Vietnam hoped that Diệm would take up a ceremonial role and allow the sect leaders — including Ba Cụt — to hold government positions.^[44] However, Diệm refused to share power and launched a sudden offensive against Ba Cụt in Thot Not on 12 March, shelling the area heavily. The battle was inconclusive and both sides blamed the other for causing instability and disrupting the situation.^[45] Diệm then attacked the Bình Xuyên's Saigon headquarters in late April, quickly crushing them.^[46]

During the fighting, the Hòa Hảo attempted to help the Bình Xuyên by attacking towns and government forces in their Mekong Delta heartland. Ba Cụt's men, who had also been angered by the recent arrest of some colleagues, blockaded the Mekong and Bassac rivers and laid siege to various towns, including Sa Dec, Long Xuyen and Chau Doc, stifling the regional economy.^[37][47] The Hòa Hảo shut down several important regional roads and stopped the flow of agricultural produce from the nation's most fertile region into the capital, causing food prices to rise by 50%,^[48] as meat and vegetables became scarce. Ba Cụt then attacked a battalion of VNA troops south of Sa Dec.^[48] Soon after, they retreated to a Hòa Hảo citadel on the banks of the Bassac. After reinforcing their base, the Hòa Hảo proceeded to fire mortars across the water into the city of Cần Thơ, which stood on the opposite side of the river.^[37] During this period, the United Front publicly accused Diệm of trying to bribe Ba Cụt with 100 million piasters.^[49]

With the Bình Xuyên vanquished, Diệm turned his attention to conquering the Hòa Hảo. As a result, a battle between government troops led by General Dương Văn Minh and Ba Cụt's men commenced in Cần Thơ on 5 June. Five Hòa Hảo battalions surrendered immediately; Ba Cụt and three remaining leaders had fled to the Cambodian border by the end of the month.^[33][37] The soldiers of the three other leaders eventually surrendered, but Ba Cụt's men continued to the end,^[33] claiming loyalty to the Emperor Bảo Đại. Diệm responded by replacing the officers of Bảo Đại's personal regiments with his own men and used the royal units to attack Ba Cụt's rebels near Ha Tien and Rach Gia, outnumbering the Hòa Hảo by at least a factor of five.^[37][50] Knowing that they could not defeat the government in open conventional warfare, Ba Cụt's forces destroyed their own bases so that the VNA could not use their abandoned resources, and retreated into the jungle.^[51] Ba Cụt's 3,000 men spent the rest of 1955 evading 20,000 VNA troops who had been deployed to quell them.^[51] A bounty of one million piasters was put on the head of Ba Cụt, who scattered trails of money in the jungle, hoping to distract his pursuers, but to no avail.^[52] The communists claimed in a history written decades later that Ba Cụt had tried to forge an alliance with them, but that talks broke down a few months later.^[53]

Despite his weak military situation, Ba Cụt sought to disrupt the staging of a fraudulent referendum that Diệm had scheduled to depose Bảo Đại as head of state.^[54] Ba Cụt distributed a pamphlet condemning Diệm as an American puppet, asserting that the prime minister was going to "Catholicize" the country^[55]; the referendum was partly funded by the U.S. government and various Roman Catholic organisations.^[56] Diệm had strong support from American Roman Catholic politicians and the powerful Cardinal Francis Spellman and his elder brother, Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục, was Archbishop of Huế.^[57] Ba Cụt presciently noted that the referendum was a means "for Diem to gather the people from all towns and force them to demonstrate one goal: to depose Bao Dai and proclaim the puppet Diem as the chief-of-state of Vietnam."^[56] On the day of the poll, Ba Cụt's men prevented voting in the border regions which they controlled,^[58] and ventured out of the jungles to attack polling stations in Cần Thơ. ^[59] Despite that disruption, Diệm was fraudulently credited with more than 90% of support in Hòa Hảo-controlled territory, and a near unanimous turnout was recorded in the area.^[60][61] These results were replicated across the nation, and Diệm deposed Bảo Đại.^[60]

Eventually, Ba Cụt was surrounded, and sought to make a peace deal with the Diệm government to avoid being taken prisoner. Ba Cụt sent a message to Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ, the public official who oversaw the civilian side of the campaign against the Hòa Hảo, asking for negotiations so that his men could be integrated into mainstream society and the nation's armed forces. Thơ agreed to meet Ba Cụt alone in the jungle, and despite fears that the meeting was a Hòa Hảo trap, he was not ambushed. However, Ba Cụt began asking for additional concessions and the meeting ended in a stalemate.^[62] According to historian Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Ba Cụt's lifelong antipathy towards Thơ's family influenced his behaviour during his last stand.^[2] Ba Cụt was arrested by a patrol on 13 April 1956,^[33] and his remaining forces were defeated in battle.^[15][52]

Trial and execution[link]

Ba Cụt in Cần Thơ Military Court, 1956

Diệm's government put Ba Cụt on trial. During the proceedings, Ba Cụt theatrically removed his shirt so that the public gallery could see how many scars he had suffered while fighting the communists. This, according to him, demonstrated his devotion to Vietnamese nationalism. He challenged any other man to show as many scars. However, the Diệmist judge was unimpressed. Ba Cụt was found guilty of multiple murders and sentenced to death.^[15] Diệm's adviser, Colonel Edward Lansdale from the CIA, was one of many who protested against the decision. Lansdale felt that the execution would tarnish Diệm—who had proclaimed the Republic of Vietnam (commonly known as South Vietnam) and declared himself President—and antagonise Ba Cụt's followers.^[33] Ngô Đình Nhu, Diệm's younger brother and chief adviser, denied a reprieve as the army, particularly Minh, opposed any clemency. Some sections of the southern public, however, were sympathetic to Ba Cụt. ^[63]

Ba Cụt was publicly guillotined^[15][64] on 13 July 1956, in Cần Thơ.^[39] His body was later diced into small pieces, which were then buried separately.^[53] Some followers, led by a hardcore deputy named Bay Dom, retreated to a small area beside the Cambodian border, where they vowed not to rest until Ba Cụt was avenged.^[27] Many of his followers later joined the Vietcong—the movement that succeeded the Việt Minh their leader had fought — and took up arms against Diệm.^[27]

Notes[link]

References[link]

Andrew Huang

Andrew "bunnie" Huang is an American hacker, who holds a Ph.D in electrical engineering from MIT and is the author of the 2003 book Hacking the Xbox: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering. He was born in 1975. Huang is also a member of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity.

Dr. Huang was the hardware lead at Chumby; his responsibilities included the design and production of chumby devices, as well as the strategic planning and ecosystem development of the broader chumby hardware platform. He has completed several major projects, ranging from hacking the Xbox (and writing the eponymous book), to designing the world's first fully integrated photonic-silicon chips running at 10 Gbit/s with Luxtera, Inc., to building some of the first prototype hardware for silicon nanowire device research with Caltech. bunnie has also participated in the design of 802.11b/Bluetooth transceivers (with Mobilian), graphics chips (with SGI), digital cinema CODECs (with Qualcomm), and autonomous robotic submarines (with MIT ORCA/AUVSI). He is also responsible for the un-design of many security systems, with an appetite for the challenge of digesting silicon-based hardware security. Huang is also a contributing writer for MAKE magazine and a member of their technical advisory board, and had written extensively about manufacturing in China ^[1].

Huang has also used reverse-engineering techniques to reveal why certain MicroSD cards are poor in quality ^[2]

Huang was to be a witness a trial for whether Xbox modding violates the DMCA ^[3] . The case was eventually dropped ^[4].

He also created the NeTV, which was the first known public use of the High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) 'master key'. The device uses the master key to implement a video overlay on existing HDCP-protected links, in a fashion which purportedly does not violate the DMCA ^[5] . The NeTV hardware and firmware is entirely open source^[6].

He also created the open-source hardware Safecast Geiger Counter Reference Design, as a volunteer effort in response to the Tohoku-Oki earthquake and the ensuing meltdown of Fukushima Daiichi.^[7]

Publications[link]

• Huang, Andrew (May 26, 2002) (pdf). Keeping Secrets in Hardware: the Microsoft XBoxTM Case Study. AI Memo 2002-008. http://web.mit.edu/bunnie/www/proj/anatak/AIM-2002-008.pdf. Retrieved April 19, 2008. 
• An Implementation of Guarded Pointers with Tight Bounds on Segment Size, J.P. Grossman, Jeremy Brown, Andrew Huang, Tom Knight, MIT AI Aries Group Technical Memo 002

• ADAM: A Decentralized Parallel Computer Architecture Featuring Fast Thread and Data Migration and a Uniform Hardware Abstraction, Andrew “bunnie” Huang, PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 2002

• A 10Gb/s photonic modulator and WDM MUX/DEMUX integrated with electronics in 0.13um SOI CMOS, Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2006. ISSCC 2006. Digest of Technical Papers. IEEE International. Recipient of Lewis Winner Award for Best Paper

References[link]

1. ^ Doctorow, Cory (July 13, 2007). "Bunnie Huang's blog-series on Chinese manufacturing". Boing Boing. http://boingboing.net/2007/07/13/bunnie_huangs_blogse.html. Retrieved May 2, 2011. 
2. ^ Doctorow, Cory (Feb 16, 2010). "Sleuthing uncovers the mystery of Kingston MicroSD cards' crappy QA". Boing Boing. http://boingboing.net/2010/02/16/sleuthing-uncovers-t.html. Retrieved May 1, 2011. 
3. ^ Kravets, David (October 21, 2010). "Threat Level Privacy, Crime and Security Online Previous post Next post Prosecutors Seek to Block Xbox Hacking Pioneer From Trial". Wired. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/xbox-modder-tria/. Retrieved May 1, 2011. 
4. ^ Kravets, David (December 2, 2010). "Prosecutors Dismiss Xbox-Modding Case Mid-Trial". Wired. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/crippen-dismissed/. Retrieved May 1, 2011. 
5. ^ Goodin, Dan (September 16, 2011). "How gizmo maker's hack outflanked copyright trolls". The Register. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/16/chumby_nettv_hack/. Retrieved September 17, 2011. 
6. ^ Source code links at http://kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=NeTV_Main_Page
7. ^ http://boingboing.net/2012/03/15/bunnie-huangs-open-geiger-co.html

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Sergio Flores

Personal information
Full name	Dustin Sergio Flores
Date of birth	(1985-02-22) 22 February 1985 (age 27)
Place of birth	Smithfield, Utah, USA
Playing position	Left winger, Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2005	Real Salt Lake	0	(0)
2007–2008	Crystal Palace Baltimore	32	(5)
National team‡
	USA U-18
	USA U-20
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 10 August 2008. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 26 May 2008

Sergio Flores (born 22 February 1985) is a former American footballer of Bolivian descent. He played as either a striker or a winger.

Flores has represented the United States at U18 and U20 levels. He has played for Real Salt Lake, The Strongest of Bolivia and Chacarita Juniors of Argentina. In five pre-season games for Crystal Palace Baltimore in their first ever season, Flores scored eight goals.

He retired from professional soccer at the young age of 23.

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