Los Tequileros featured in Duval County presentation

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POSTED BY: CARDENAS.AE@GMAIL.COM JULY 22, 2019


The era of the tequileros during Prohibition played an important role in Duval County. As the well-known corrido says very clearly “el rumbo que ellos llevaban era San Diego mentado!”

Dr. George T. Diaz


It is a seriously unreported era. The group La Santa Cruz de la Concepcion Tejanos will have a presentation on this topic on Saturday, August 10, 2019, beginning at 1 p.m. on the second floor of the Duval County Courthouse. Dr. George T. Diaz professor and author will be the featured speaker. His topic will be “Los Tequileros of South Texas, The Duval County Connection.”

Diaz, who earned his Ph.D. from Southern Methodist University in 2010, is a professor of history at the University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley in Brownsville. In addition to numerous pieces in scholarly journals, Diaz also authored Border Contraband: A History of Smuggling Across the Rio Grande” available at Amazon (see link at end of the blog.)

Carolina Monsivais


In addition to Diaz, Carolina Monsivais will present on the topic “Skirting the Law, Female Liquor Smugglers, and Sellers Through Prohibition Along the Rio Grande.” She is currently working on her Ph.D. at the University of Texas at El Paso in their Borderlands History Program. A poet, she authored Elisa’s Hunger,  where “tongues unfold across generations.” Monsivais also wrote Somewhere Between Houston and El Paso for which she won the Poesia Tejana Prize.

Monsivais has a Masters of Fine Arts from New Mexico State University and has taught Literature and Creative Writing at New Mexico State University and at El Paso Community College. She is a native of El Paso where she makes her home.

Admission is free. For more information contact Richard Stillman at (361) 960-4950 or J.R. Garcia at (361) 946-9500.

  

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