Porvenir Massacre

Remembering The Porvenir Massacre More Than 100 Years Later

Diana Nguyen

By Diana Nguyen In the early 1900s, a tragic event took place on the West Texas borderlands. Today at the Presidio County Courthouse in Marfa, the…

Rebroadcast: Andrew Shapter Revisits the Porvenir Massacre in Documentary and Feature-Length Film

Marfa Public Radio

This January marks the hundredth anniversary of the Porvenir Massacre of 1918, a dark event in West Texas history. This event was one of the many clashes…

Andrew Shapter Revisits the Porvenir Massacre in Documentary and Feature-Length Film

Marfa Public Radio

Filmmaker Andrew Shapter is the director of a documentary and feature-length film about the Porvenir Massacre of 1918. In this conversation, Shapter…

A New Look at the Porvenir Massacre of 1918

Tom Michael

January 28 marks a dark period in regional history. In 1918 more than a dozen West Texas residents – of Mexican descent - were executed near the border.…