Culture

A work in progress

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At the intersection of Santa María Ave. and Constantinople, a work in progress presents a striking visual as you head downtown. LareDOS tried to find the artist at the location, but the effort was without success. Yet to be painted, a wolf, a lion, and a bear are sketched in at the bottom of the mural. The work raised an interest in who might be the cowgirl with the flags of Texas and Mexico over the inverted pentagon in which she is painted, and to whom do the empty initialized chairs to the right belong.

Culture

So far ahead of her time

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Journalist, educator, and borderland activist Jovita Idar, once the publisher of La Cronica, is remembered in St. Peter’s Plaza with a marker from the Texas Historic Commission. She reported on gender inequality, the lynchings of Mexicans, and politics. She stood up to the Texas Rangers who would subsequently burn La Cronica’s offices and presses.

Day Tripper

Lunch at Lala’s and a quiet afternoon at the Los Ojuelos cemetery and Mirando City

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About 30 miles from Laredo, just off U.S. Hwy. 359, you can turn onto Ranch Road 649 and find two tranquil places that belie their once teeming historic pasts. One is Los Ojuelos and the other is Mirando City. Because I have old, longstanding paternal ties to Los Ojuelos, I find that daytrips there always evoke deep wells of thought for who we have been and who we are now. My grandfather Pedro Armengol Guerra was born at Los Ojuelos in 1880 to Adela Aguirre Guerra (from Candela) and José María Guerra.