{"id":56377,"date":"2025-04-29T13:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T20:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/silicon-valley-latino-leader-dies-at-90\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T13:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T20:30:15","slug":"silicon-valley-latino-leader-dies-at-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/silicon-valley-latino-leader-dies-at-90\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley Latino leader dies at 90"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alcario Castellano, the grocery-clerk-turned-lottery-winner who used his fortune to reignite Silicon Valley\u2019s communities of color, died Saturday at his home in Saratoga. He was 90. What began as a $141 million California Lottery jackpot in 2001 became, in time, a modern parable. A wave of excitement that fateful day between Castellano and his wife, Carmen, turned into clarity. The couple came up with a list of names they could help in Silicon Valley \u2014 and so began the Castellano Family Foundation. \u201cHe\u2019s always been an activist as long as I\u2019ve known him,\u201d son Armando Castellano told San Jos\u00e9 Spotlight. The&hellip;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/silicon-valley-latino-leader-alcario-castellano-dies-at-90\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a> @San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alcario Castellano, the grocery-clerk-turned-lottery-winner who used his fortune to reignite Silicon Valley\u2019s communities of color, died Saturday at his home in Saratoga. He was 90. What began as a $141 million California Lottery jackpot in 2001 became, in time, a modern parable. A wave of excitement that fateful day between Castellano and his wife, Carmen, &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}