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OPIUM SMOKERS TO LEAVE CD. JUÁREZ
Thursday August 31 1911
Police Making Efforts to Abolish The Habit in Ciudad Juárez -All of the opium smoking houses will
soon be closed in Ciudad
Juarez as chief of police
Rafael Campa has begun an active campaign
in driving these dens
out of the city. Wednesday afternoon, Captain
Campa, with a squad of
six policemen, called
at a half dozen Chinese
places in the city and
searches were made for
traces of opium smoking. In the raid only one
was found by the police,
but there was every evidence
of opium in other places visited by
the police. All of the opium houses in the city will be
raided before the search is given up and several arrests
may result.
“Entre los individuos, como entre las naciones, el
respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz.” -Benito Juarez
of 1858 to 1872.
Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Juarez’s life in
politics is his background; he was a full-blooded native of Zapotec descent – the only full-blooded native
to ever serve as president of Mexico – who did not
even speak Spanish until he was in his teens. He was
is still felt today. End

CESAR CHAVEZ A HERO OF OUR TIME
March 31 1927 - April 23 1993
“Sí, se puede- Yes, it can be done” -A true American hero, Cesar was a
civil rights, Latino and
farm labor leader; a
genuinely religious and

“I want to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her”

-VILLA

FROM BANDIT TO A DICTATOR

PANCHO VILLA’S POLITICAL STRUGGLE
By Leon Claire Metz / Travel The Pass Mass Media Pinnacle featured Historian & Author Since 1991
The Southwest Chronicle©TTPMMP EST. 1991

EL PASO -Villa kills

his mother and four siblings.
One day in 1894, Villa
came home from the

tect honor of his sister
the mountains. He then
helps to unseat the man
whose methods made
him a bandit. Finally
avenges the death of the
man whose standard he
embraced.
Pancho Villa was born
Doroteo Arango, the son
of a sharecropper at the
hacienda in San Juan
del Rio, Durango. While
growing up, Pancho Villa
witnessed and experienced the harshness of
peasant life. In Mexico
during the late 19th century, the rich were becoming richer by taking
advantage of the lower
classes, often treating
them like slaves.
When Villa was 15, his
father died, so Villa began to work as a sharecropper to help support -

munity organizer and
social
entrepreneur;
a champion of militant nonviolent social
change and a crusader
for the environment and
consumer rights. At age
11, his family lost their
farm during the Great
Depression and became
migrant farm workers.
Throughout his youth and into adulthood, Cesar traveled the migrant streams throughout California labor-

owner of the hacienda
intended to have sex with
Villa’s 12-year old sister.
Villa, only 16-years old,
grabbed a pistol, shot the
owner of the hacienda,
and then took off to the
mountains. From 1894 to
1910, Villa spent most of
his time in the mountains
running from the law. At
to survive by himself, but
by 1896, he had joined
some other bandits and
soon became their leader. Villa and his group
of bandits would steal
cattle, rob shipments of
money, and commit additional crimes against
the wealthy. By steal