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Newspaper Article
Enriqueta Quintero's newspaper clippings look at the injustices ex-braceros have endured. They also talk about the protests they've organized to try and bring attention to the fact that they are owed money. For instance, a group went to Mexican…
Tags: article, Enriqueta Quintero, injustice, lobbying, newspaper, protests, Vicente Fox
Newspaper Article
This newspaper clipping states that braceros did not wish many government officials a Merry Christmas. They are disappointed with the fact that Mexican federal government only offered the braceros 38,000 pesos in compensation for back wages. They say…
Tags: 000 pesos, 10%, 100, 2005, 38, back wages, Baja California, Mexicali, Mexico, newspaper article, protests, Quintero
Newspaper Article
The photo's caption states that members of the organization, Alianza Bracero Proa, once again, gather in protest at Government Center. They are fighting for the money that was taken from their salary in the United States. The United States government…
Newspaper Article
There are two article clippings. The first discusses the construction of a facility to help ex-braceros who are still owed their back wages. This article was published February 18, 2004. The other article is about braceros who protested outside of…
Newspaper Article
This article clipping states that Mexican officials have decided to give ex-braceros 100,000 pesos and not 38,000 as originally stated. The article was printed in "La Voz de la Frontera" on April 28, 2006.
Newspaper Article
There are three newspaper photographs with captions. The top one states that ex-braceros were misled. This photograph was published November 29, 2005. The middle one states that ex-braceros were about to block the border to protest the incarceration…
Tags: 10%, back wages, newspaper article, protests, Quintero
Newspaper Article
There are two newspaper clippings. The top one talks about the lawsuit that braceros have placed against the United States' government. The bottom one talks about an agreement that the Mexican government reached with members of Alianza Braceros Proa.
Tags: 10%, back wages, newspaper article, protests, Quintero
Newspaper Article
This article clipping is in regards to a meeting that the Mexican government had with ex-braceros and their supporters. The point of the meeting was to find a conclusion to the back wages owed to the ex-braceros, but the meeting was inconclusive. The…
Tags: 10%, back wages, newspaper article, protests
Salvador Esparza Carreño
Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Salvador Esparza was born on July 15, 1919, in Tepehuanes, Durango, México; he was the eldest of his nine siblings; when he was fourteen years old, he and his family moved to Durango, Durango; in 1945, he…
Rafael Cortez
Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Rafael Cortez was born in Techaluta [de Montenegro], Jalisco, México; some of his family members, including uncles and cousins, came to the United States under the bracero program; Rafael longed to come to the…
Margarita Saldivar
Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Margarita Saldívar was born in México, Distrito Federal; she is the eldest of her eight siblings; before her parents were married and she was born, her father, Francisco Leopoldo Saldívar, enlisted in the…
Irene Solís
Biographical Synopsis of Interviewee: Irene Solís was born on May 4, 1941, in Carrillo Puerto, Durango, México; by the time she was sixteen, she was already married and pregnant with her first child; in 1957, her husband, Fernando Barrios Domínguez,…
Marriage Certificate (back)
Marriage Certificate of Eugenio Renteria and Maria Refugio Gomez (backside) with signature.
Tags: certificate, marriage, Mexico, Nayarit, Renteria
Birth Certificate
Birth Certificate of Eugenio Renteria. Born March 24, 1915.
Tags: 1915, birth, bracero, certificate, jalisco
Death Certificate
Death Certificate of Eugenio Renteria-Mojica
Tags: 1993, bracero, certificate, death, jalisco
Birth certificate
Faustino Martinez's birth certificate attest that he was born on August 13, 1926.
Tags: 1926, birth certificate, Martinez
Birth certificate (back)
Faustino Martinez's birth certificate attests that he was born on August 13, 1926.
Tags: 1926, birth certificate, Martinez
Missing documentation form
Faustino Martinez received this missing documentation in Mexicali, Baja California in 2006 because he was missing some documents for his request of his 10%.
Tags: 10%, Baja California, documents, Martinez, Mexicali
Registration Form
This is a general registration form from the Mexican government to Faustino Martinez.
Tags: 10%, Baja California, documents, Martinez, Mexicali