By Antonio Noé Zavaleta, Ph.D.[i] and Mitchell A. Kaplan, Ph.D.[ii] INTRODUCTION From 2010 to 2014, the United States experienced an unprecedented rise in undocumented immigration along the Texas-Mexico border.[1] The Lower Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol sector saw the…
The story you are about to read is true. It details a personal fable that has followed me through life and, at times, directed me. So far, it spans more than fifty years and has a life of its own,…
The U.S.-Mexico Border In 2010, it was reported that 23,000 Mexicans had been murdered since 2006. In an article attempting to examine and define "spillover violence," Texas Monthly magazine stated that "Yet despite fears to the contrary, the violence has…
This is the unlikely but entirely true story of how a 16-year-old Saint Joseph Academy boy met a 16-year-old prostitute-sex-slave from the village of Yerba Buena in southern Tamaulipas, Mexico. They met in the infamous Matamoros Boy’s town in 1963…
The story you are about to read is true! It details a personal fable that has followed me through life and at times has directed me. So far, it spans fifty years and weaves in and out of my earthly…
The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College1 By Antonio N. Zavaleta “Borderless Love” by the Flatlanders Walking the line between pleasure and pain Biding my time between loss and gain I have run out of roads, I have traveled…
by Antonio N. Zavaleta, Ph.D. Originally Published in Studies in Rio Grande Valley History, 2005, Edited by Milo Kearney, Anthony Knopp, and Antonio Zavaleta, Vol. 6, UTB/TSC Regional History Series, pp.343-360. From the early 1950’s, my personal experience in Brownsville, Texas…
by Antonio N. Zavaleta Through most of its history, the Rio Grande River (Rio Bravo in Mexico) has meandered lazily toward its terminus at the Gulf of Mexico. One hundred miles to the West of its mouth the river flows through…
By Antonio N. Zavaleta1 Historical scholars perform two types of research. Some historians may produce a lifetime of work without ever examining an original document. An original document is one, which is written or produced during the time-period being studied. Locating…
By Antonio N. Zavaleta1 INTRODUCTION The area north and south of the Rio Grande River, in the vicinity of Brownsville, Texas, is one of the most historically and culturally significant areas along the river, and yet its history has been poorly…
