Robert Alberto Pinkerton

Carlos Rodriguez is a character an a upcoming episode of South Park.

Early life
Carlos was born in Zamboanga City, Philippines to Maria (née Santiago) and Héctor Rodriguez. Maria was a hospital nurse Héctor was a Carpenter. Carlos had one older half sister named Imelda de la Cruz and one younger brother Diego who was eight months younger than him. Carlos and Diego were very close, often reading comic books, listening to music, and watching movies together. These forms of entertainment helped Carlos learn English.

Carlos and Diego were educated at St. Jose Romano Katolikong Boarding School para Sa Mga Lalaki, a Roman Catholic all-boys preparatory boarding school in Manila, where he learned to write Tagalog. The school was for boys 9-18. At the age of 15, Carlos dropped out of St. Jose's and moved to Madrid, Spain when he earned a full scholarship to attend Universidad Complutense de Madrid. While there Carlos studied biology and chemistry. He took his childhood fascination with cryogenics to heart, and began entered the cryogenics major class. Carlos graduated from the university with a degree in cryogenics at age nineteen. Following his graduation, Carlos returned to his family in Zamboanga. One year later they all immigrated to the United States.

Carlos had no problem with fully learning English. He then turned his interest with cryogenics into a stellar career. Carlos began a career at the cryogenics division at South Park Genetic Engineering Ranch, employing under John Mephesto. He later met Alona Pérez, a young woman studying under the astronomy division, with whom he fell in love with. They soon got married on Christmas day at South Park Church, Alona was six months pregnant at the time. Alona then gave birth to Mario three months later. While Alona was pregnant with Mario, she was kicked out of her high school as pregnant female students were not allowed. She later gave birth to thirteen other children; Luisa, Leonardo, Rosita, Berto, Arnold, Cynthia, Hugo, Carolina, Rosa, Wanda, Melissa, Isabella and Camila. His family grew to include many grandchildren, great-grandchildren as well as great-great-grandchildren and a host of friends and church members.

Death
One night, while working with his grandson Alphonse at the Genetic Engineering Ranch, he disclosed to the latter that he was tired and had a sore throat, but he felt that it would soon go away. Carlos had admitted to Alphonse that he was a long-time chain smoker. Sometime in October, Carlos and Alona traveled with Alona's niece Francine to Newark, New Jersey to attend a baby shower for Sheila and Gerald's impending son. They returned to South Park three days later.

Carlos was having trouble breathing one night at around 2:00 a.m., and began coughing up a considerable amount of blood. Two hours later, he was taken by taxi to the emergency room at Hell's Pass Hospital, where he underwent chemotherapy. Shortly after admission, Carlos fell into unconsciousness as he suffered cardiac arrest. He was rushed into the intensive care unit. Doctors opened his chest and performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation. After remaining in a coma for several hours, Carlos died at 7:22 am.

Carlos' funeral was held at St. Ignatius Loyola Church in Denver a week later. After the funeral, his body was cremated and the ashes were given to his family