cuatro

When I met Padilla for lunch last year at my wife’s store in Santa Ana — in Calle Cuatro, the city’s historic Latino district, where now we can see the National Guard down the street blocking off a part of it — he struck me as the goody- two-shoes those who have worked with him have always portrayed him to be.

And with the fluttering strums of a cuatro venezolano in “Joropo,” she called attention to the South American folkloric genre of the same name.

She learned how to play the cuatro from her father, whose family took refuge in Venezuela during the Spanish Civil War.

Valé March 13 at Cuatro Gato 8:20-9 p.m.

In the case of Noah Cuatro, a 4-year-old who died in 2019, both of his parents completed weeks of classes meant to make them better guardians before a judge placed him back into their custody.