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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Oscar Zeta Acosta
(April 8, 1935 - disappeared 1974) was an American attorney, politician,
minor novelist and Chicano Movement activist, perhaps best known for his
friendship with the American author Hunter S. Thompson, who included him
as a character the Samoan Attorney, Dr. Gonzo, in his acclaimed novel
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. In 1974, Acosta disappeared while
traveling in Mexico. His son, Marco Acosta, believes that he was the
last person to talk to his father. According to Thompson's obituary of
Acosta, titled "Fear and Loathing in the Graveyard of the Weird: The
Banshee Screams for Buffalo Meat", Acosta was a powerful attorney and
preacher but suffered from an addiction to amphetamines as well as a
predilection for LSD-25. The article was Thompson's response to rumors
that Acosta was alive somewhere around Miami.
