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Ep62: The Shadows of Porvenir: A Century of State-Sanctioned Blackouts
Episode Overview:
In the early morning hours of January 28, 1918, a joint force consisting of Texas Rangers Company B, U.S. Cavalry soldiers, and local white cattlemen executed fifteen unarmed Mexican-American men and boys in the remote West Texas village of Porvenir. For nearly a century, official state reports classified the victims as "Mexican bandits" killed in self-defense.
In this episode of Hands Off My Podcast, host Jasmine Castillo dissects the violent decade of La Matanza, Representative José Tomás Canales' courageous 1919 legislative investigation, and the 2015 forensic…
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