El Malcriado, Volume 1, Number 49, page 5

El Malcriado, Volume 1, Number 49, page 5

United Farm Workers, El Malcriado, Zapata and Villa

El Malcriado, “The Voice of the Farmworker," was a newspaper for the farmworker community in California’s Central Valley, an essential medium to communicate activities, concerns, and union updates for the United Farm Workers. It was provided to the union members free of charge, but also offered subscriptions and could be bought at local stores throughout the Central Valley in California. In the 49th issue of El Malcriado, a letter by Ramiro Mendez, a United Farm Worker, responded to a controversy due to the use of the images of Zapata and Villa. The UFW were accused in an issue of La Opinion, the largest Spanish-read newspaper in the United States, of “mocking” the “authentic Mexican” images of Zapata and Villa by using them in their cause. Mendez responded back by writing to La Opinion explaining that not only were they not mocking their images, but that the UFW had every right to utilize these images because much of the UFW was comprised of direct descendants of Mexican revolutionaries.

Letter by Ramiro Mendez

El Malcriado, UFW newspaper

El Taller Gráfico, Farmworker Press, Delano, California

April 18, 1966

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Courtesy of the Chicano Studies Research Center at UCLA

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