Honoring Pioneer Families of El Rio Bravo del Norte By Antonio Noé Zavaleta The history of Northeastern Mexico and South Texas is one of a struggle for survival against Native predations in an unforgiving environment where the few pioneering Spanish…
THERE FOR THE TAKING In south Texas, the Rio Grande pushes past backyards and shopping malls, ranges and ranches. When the federal government began building fences on this stretch of border, it started with government-owned levee land, but it took land as well,…
The Texas Center for Border and Transnational Studies (TCBTS) was established to address critical cross-border issues and to assist in the facilitation cross-border policy decisions through the creation and support of a cross-border regional planning component. Introduction and Mission…
An Historical Synthesis of the Socio-Economic Interdependence of The Brownsville-Matamoros Border Community to 1986[1] By Antonio N. Zavaleta INTRODUCTION The history of the Brownsville-Matamoros border community brings to life the fullest meaning of the concept of symbiosis. In the…
Mr. Tony Zavaleta Brownsville, Texas April 17, 2018 Dear Tony, I’d like to thank you once more for the help you provided my colleagues and me during our reporting of the proposed Border Wall project, which yesterday received the 2018…
Estandarte photographs by El Niño Fidencio Research Project Dr. Rachel Barreda.
Published by the: Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy Online John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge Mass Kaplan M.A, & Zavaleta, A. (2017 February 25) Despite more than three decades of empirical evidence from sociological and anthropological research…
Antonio N. Zavaleta, Ph.D. & Mitchell A. Kaplan, Ph.D. The practice of using plant-based entheogenic psychoactive substances as a means of spiritual transcendence is well-documented in the literature of ancient Mesoamerican civilizations. Archaeologists who have conducted excavations at Mesoamerican sites…
