“People say the past is the past, and you’ve got to move on,' historian Monica Muñoz Martinez said. 'Unfortunately, that is just not the case. Violence against Latinos ... has become more relevant.'
Arlinda Valencia was at a family funeral when she heard what sounded like a wild rumor. One of her uncles mentioned that the Texas Rangers had murdered her great-grandfather. This idea seemed so ludicrous that some of Valencia’s relatives laughed. No one believed the story. But the tale stuck with Valencia, and later she went online to read about Texas history.carried out by Texas Rangers. Among a list of the victims, she recognized her great-grandfather’s name.
Valencia’s great-grandfather Longino Flores had indeed lived in the small West Texas border town of Porvenir., a group of ranchers, Texas Rangers, and U.S. Army cavalry soldiers entered the village and rousted the residents from their beds. They led away 15 unarmed men and boys of Mexican descent to a nearby bluff, where they shot and killed them. These victims ranged in age from 16 to 72, and some were American citizens. The town’s women and children fled across the border to Mexico for safety.
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