Bracero Advocate Ventura Gutiérrez Dies

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4                                                                                                                                                  PROGRAM #10534 11:00 AM PT 

Bracero Advocate Ventura Gutiérrez Dies. 

Ventura Gutiérrez Méndez, the veteran social activist best known for spearheading the movement to bring justice to the former Bracero workers, died in Riverside earlier this month. In the 1980s, after working with unionized workers and counseling Bracero workers and their families, he discovered that braceros had not been reimbursed for money deducted from their earnings under binational contracts. He then organized the Braceroproa Alliance. His widow, a co-organizer in the bracero movement, provides perspective.

Guest: Delia Alma Fraile Barocio, Widow of Ventura Gutiérrez, and Leader, Alianza Braceroproa, Mexicali, MX; plus other archival interviews.

Photo: Ventura Gutierrez Mendez/Facebook

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