Category Archives: New Mexico

Remembering Rito Canales and Antonio Cordova of the Black Berets of Albuquerque

Posted on March 3, 2017 by

Rito Canales. Albuquerque, N.M. Shot to death Jan. 29, 1972. Rito was fighting the prison system. (Photos from 500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures. Elizabeth Martinez, editor. 1991) January 29th 2017 was the 45th anniversary of the police murders … Continue reading →

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Chilili Land Grant Struggle, 1976 (pamphlet)

Posted on September 16, 2015 by

The following is a pamphlet about the land struggle in Chilili, New Mexico in 1976. (Thanks to the one in the Chicano Movement group in Facebook for scanning this in the first place. ) The pamphlet was put out by … Continue reading →

Posted in Aztlan, Chicano Movement, National Liberation, National Question, New Mexico | 1 Comment