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Nombre del entrevistado: Isidro Ábrego Alvarado
Fecha de la entrevista: 2 de junio de 2003
Nombre del entrevistador: Laureano Martínez

Esta es una entrevista con el señor Isidro Ábrego Alvarado en la cuidad de Durango, Durango, el día 2 de…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Heriberto Galvéz was born on March 16, 1939, in Chalchihuites, Zacatecas, México; he was the third of four siblings; when he was two years old, his father died, and he was in turn raised by an abusive…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Enrique Torres was born on July 15, 1929, in Santiago Papasquiaro, Durango, México; he was the second of six brothers; his father died when he was six years old; at an early age, he started working in…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Antonio Chávez was born on January 17, 1928, in Canatlán, Durango, México; he was the youngest of nine siblings; his father died when he was only a year old; when he was eight years old, he began helping his…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: David Salcido was born in Durango, Durango, México; he is the youngest of nine siblings; at an early age, he started working in agriculture; he enlisted in the bracero program in 1964; during this time, he…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Belisrio Luna was born on June 26, 1936, in Guadalupe Victoria, Durango, México; he was the sixth of eleven children; his father died when he was six years old; he was forced to work in agriculture at the age of…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Alonso Venegas was born on October 20, 1940, in Mezquital, Durango, México; he was the only male in a family of four; at the age of eight, he worked planting beans and corn in an effort to help his father with…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Alejandro Ruteaga was born on April 12, 1932, in Rodeo, Durango, México; he was the third of ten siblings; at the age of eight, he began helping his father with agricultural tasks; when he was eighteen, he…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Agustín Martínez was born on May 15, 1918, in Torreón, Coahuila, México; he was the oldest of three siblings; his father died when he was three years old; at the age of fifteen, he began sowing beans and corn to…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Juan Loza was born on October 11, 1939, in Manuel Doblado, Guanajuato, México; he was the eldest of his twelve siblings; in 1960, he joined the bracero program, and he worked in Arkansas, California, Michigan,…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Roberto Almaraz Valdivia was born in Tabasco, Zacatecas, México, but raised in Villanueva, Zacatecas; his parents worked in agriculture, and he had four sisters and three brothers; he was formally schooled…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Audómaro Zepeda was born on May 10, 1933, in Jalisco, México; as the second of thirteen siblings he only went to school through the third grade; when he was nine years old, he began working in the fields; his…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: José Orozco was born on April 8, 1950, in Jalisco, México; he was the sixth of ten siblings to be born; his father and two older brothers worked as braceros; as a bracero, his father worked in Arizona,…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: José Hernández was born on November 10, 1929, in Jalisco, México; he was the youngest of five children; his father died when he was nine years old, and he began working on a farm shortly thereafter; ironically,…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Igancio Gómez was born on January 14, 1936, in Michoacán, México; his father died when he was an infant, and his mother later died when he was twelve years old; as the eldest of three children, he began working…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Gabino Solís was born in 1928, in Pueblo Nuevo, Guanajuato, México; he went to school through the fourth grade, and while doing so, he would often help his father work the land; when he was eighteen, he enlisted…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Alberto Magallón was born on April 23, 1927, in Jalisco, México; when he was five years old, he began working by helping his father on the farm; he went to school through the third grade; sometime later, while…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Pedro de Real Pérez was born on October 30, 1927, in Zacatecas, México, to a family of farmers; in 1952, he enlisted in the bracero program; as a bracero, he worked in California, Montana, and Texas; his primary…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Ismael Osorio was born in June of 1923, in Chalcatongo de Hidalgo, Oaxaca, México; he went to school only through the sixth grade, because there were no secondary schools in his hometown; in 1944, he decided to…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Jesús Hernández was born on August 28, 1920, in San Felipe, Guanajuato, México; he had eight siblings, and together they grew up with their parents on a farm; at a very young age, he began helping his father…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Matilde Gallegos was born on March 30, 1930, in Benito Juárez, Chihuahua, México; he was one of six children; at the age of twelve, he started working with his father and bother in agriculture; he received…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Luis Zamudio Villagómez was born on November 4, 1938, in Moroleón, Guanajuato, México; he is one of seventeen children, though nine died at a young age; he had formal schooling until the sixth grade; at age…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Jesus Silva was born on January 1, 1932, in Michoacán, México; he was one of sixteen siblings; at age six, he began working with his father in agriculture; he never attended formal schooling, and later joined…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Cecilio Santillano was born on December 22, 1927, in El Dorado, Chihuahua, México; he was one of three siblings; at age eight, he began working with his father in agriculture; he joined the bracero program in…

Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Servando Peñaloza was born in Guayameo, Guerrero, México; he worked in agriculture from the age of six; at the age of nineteen, he moved to Mexico City, México; he joined the bracero program in 1955 with his…