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Miguel Álvarez Jurado (born 22 March 1958) is a Spanish football manager, currently in charge of Villarreal CF B.
TeamNatFromToCerdanyola Mataró20 June 199130 June 1992341 July 199230 June 1993381 July 199330 June 19943830 June 19941 July 1997116Apr 3, 2014 · Miguel Alvarez is back - OZ. ModifiedMethod. 11.1K subscribers. 361. 39K views 9 years ago. Following his release from solitary, Miguel shows he intends to go solo in Emerald City. His...
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Miguel Alvarez is the tritagonist and primary Latino inmate featured in Oz. Portrayed by Kirk Acevedo.
Season 1
Alvarez is sent to Oz for beating up a 75 year old man for scratching up his car. Alvarez arrives and is stabbed in the receiving and discharge area. Regarding this very first attack, it is never revealed why it was committed and no precise information is given about the attacking inmate. He is serving 15 years and is up for parole in 2 for aggravated assault. His girlfriend Maritza is pregnant with their child and is serving in a Woman's facility in the state. He has no intention of being there for the birth of his child since he has never met his father Eduardo or grandfather Ricardo who both are serving life sentences in Oz. Eduardo cannot talk because he has no tongue since a Haitian inmate cut it out when he first arrived in Oz. Ricardo cut the Haitian's heart out and serves life in solitary confinement. At the urging of Father Mukada, the prison priest, Ricardo and Eduardo manage to convince Miguel to be there for his child's birth and it changes his perspective on life. The baby however has a bad liver since Maritza and Miguel both did several drugs during her pregnancy. Miguel thinks that God is punishing him and cuts his face that night. The next day Miguel's baby dies. Distraught, Alvarez becomes a key player amongst the Latino inmates and takes over the gang when their leader is paroled. Ricardo, in the meantime, is suffering from Alzheimer's and Miguel is not sure of what to do about it. During the prison riot, Alvarez is a major leader and takes control of the hostages who are all correctional officers on staff and is particularly brutal with one of them. When the S.O.R.T. team takes control, Carlos Rodrigo (Miguel's friend) head is blown off next to Alvarez. Unlike the other riot leaders, Alvarez ends up in the infirmary after being shot by one of the S.O.R.T. members' rifle.
Season 2
Alvarez is one of the Latino inmates let back into the newly built Em City. In this season, the Latinos are looking to move up in rank and are not sure whether or not to work with the Italian or Homeboy gangs in the drug trade. Schillinger, desperate to kill Beecher, tells Miguel that he can push things through the mail room for payment but when Alvarez gets too demanding, Schillinger dismisses him with an ethnic slur. Peter Schibetta, the son of slain Italian leader Nino Schibetta offers Alvarez a deal in the drug trade to kill Simon Adebisi. Adebisi does the same thing and Alvarez and the Latinos sit on the side to see what is going down. Later, Warden Glynn is upset over his daughter's raping and Miguel knows the men that are responsible and tortures Glynn with this knowledge since he feels Glynn was too brutal towards him by attacking him and singling him out. Meanwhile, Peter Schibetta is raped by Simon Adebisi and Alvarez wishes to work with the Homeboys but Adebisi says no since he failed to help him take down the Italians. The Latinos especially Carmen Guerra are growing tired with Alvarez's passive leadership and are then brought higher up in standing when an old school gang leader, Raoul "El Cid" Hernandez arrives. Hernandez dislikes Alvarez immediately and casts him out for being "too white." Alvarez is light in complexion, but what Hernandez really means is that Alvarez lacks the "cojones" ("balls") to be a member of El Norte. Alvarez tells Hernandez that he has no problem with him running the gang being who he is and tells him he will do whatever is necessary to get into the good graces of El Cid. El Cid orders him to blind a new CO, Latino officer Eugene Rivera. Apparently Rivera is a former rival gang member of El Cid's and will make El Norte have an unpleasant time as long as he works in Oz. If Alvarez does not do this then he will be out of El Norte and killed. Alvarez blinds Rivera and is thrown into solitary as a result.
Season 3
In solitary, Alvarez is being reduced to drinking his own urine to survive. This is because the COs "forget" to feed him regularly since he blinded Eugene Rivera. Father Mukada, Sister Pete, and Dr. Nathan think it is better to get Alvarez out of solitary. Alvarez had been taken off his meds and was attempting to commit suicide by hanging himself, ultimately he failed and was revived by Dr. Nathan. Glynn reluctantly agrees to let him out. In Em City for the time being he is allowed into El Norte. In the boxing ring, he agrees to represent the Latinos when inmate Carlo Ricardo is sent the hole. He boxes against a gay inmate (Jason Cramer) who beats him after Ryan O'Reily spikes Miguel's water. Losing to a gay inmate causes Miguel to be the subject of various ridicule and El Cid starts to question his worth once again. Later, the Latinos help Simon Adebisi take down the other Homeboys so that they can play a larger role in the drug trade. The drug leaders are now Hernandez, Pancamo, and Adebisi who are working as three way partners. Alvarez has agreed to interact with Eugene Rivera over the blinding, and Rivera is anything but forgiving throughout it. Hernandez at the pecking of Guerra starts to question Miguel's commitment to El Norte. When the Latinos steal drugs from Ryan O'Reily, O'Reily tips off the COs to bust El Norte, and Alvarez leaves the scene two seconds early and is not sent to solitary as a result. El Cid, angered by this thinks Alvarez snitched on them and orders Guerra and Ricardo to kill Alvarez. Alvarez instead kills Ricardo in self-defense and is thrown into solitary, but not before lying to Warden Glynn about the rape of his daughter.
Personal
•Carlo Ricardo: Stabbed to death in self-defense. (1999)
•Jorge Vasquez: Throat slashed with the Gillette Bayonet shank. (2001)
Proxy
Sep 23, 2010 · Miguel Alvarez's prisoner flashback
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This is the profile site of the manager Miguel Álvarez. The site lists all clubs he coached and all clubs he played for.
Aug 31, 2023 · Miguel Alvarez was a supporting cast member during Oz's first season, and then became a member of the main cast for the next five seasons. He's a key member of the...
The vicious cycle turns and turns. Álvarez is badass, he survives so many attempts on his life, orchestrated by one of the strongest gangs in the prison, El Norte. He's one of the most multi-layered, shades-of-grey characters in the whole show. His regret at cutting out the CO's eyes is genuine.
