SPIN was born in Guatemala in the middle of a "civil" war. Forced into exile the day after his eleventh birthday, SPIN was politicized as a child. His poetry has been defined by the injustices his own eyes witnessed while living in Guatemala, the absence of his father, the culture of Hip Hop, his mother's early teachings on the oppression of the Palestinian people, US Army atrocities. Most impacting to SPIN's early lessons was the suffering of the Maya indigenous people who make up the majority of the population in Guatemala, just as ethnic people make up the majority of the population in the world!

SPIN cofounded the youth poetry collective R.H.Y.M.E. (Revolutionaries Honouring Your Minds Eyes) and the multi disciplinary Hip Hop Collective DA SQUAD.  Having conducted workshops for youth all across the country, SPIN has been witness to the freedom that poetry and Hip Hop have granted youth whose lives were otherwise destined for jail cells and disintegration. Hugo Chavez once said "To lift the poor out of poverty you must give power to the poor"
SPIN says "To be a voice for the youth, you must empower the youth to speak for themselves"

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