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La Matanza ("The Massacre" or "The Slaughter") and the Hora de Sangre ("Hour of Blood") [1] was a period of anti-Mexican violence in Texas, including massacres and lynchings, between 1910 and 1920 in the midst of tensions between the United States and Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. [2]
From 1848 to 1928 there were hundreds of lynchings of Mexican-Americans across the American West. [8] Many of these lynchings occurred in Texas against people of Mexican descent. One such case was the case of Paulino Serda of Edinburg, a city in south Texas. Paulino Serda was killed by Texas Rangers on his ranch in 1915 during questioning. [9]
When the police interrogated Hernández García separately, he confessed that several people, including Kilroy, had been killed over the course of several months at Santa Elena. [ 3 ] [ 46 ] Hernández García said that the slayings had been ordered by Adolfo Constanzo , a cult leader who practiced a ritual form of human sacrifice in the belief ...
The Porvenir massacre was an incident on January 28, 1918, outside the village of Porvenir, in Presidio County, Texas, in which Texas Rangers and local ranchers, with the support of US Cavalry, killed 15 unarmed Mexican American boys and men.
One message stated one of the cars was on fire with bullets all throughout it, and that there were people hiding in the bushes. [26] The burned out vehicle was discovered to hold the bodies of Miller-LeBarón, her 10-year-old daughter, 12-year-old son and infant twins, eleven miles from where the other two women were killed.
The list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas, with the exception of 1819–1849, is divided into periods of 10 years. Since 1819, 1,343 people (all but nine of whom have been men) have been executed in Texas as of 20 February 2025. Between 1819 and 1923, 390 people were executed by hanging in the county where the trial took place. [1]
At least 300 Mexican Americans were killed in Texas during the 1910s, with total estimates ranging from hundreds to thousands killed. At least 100 Mexican Americans were lynched in the 1910s, mostly in Texas. [24] [23] 20 percent of all recorded lynchings of Mexicans in the United States occurred between 1910 and 1920. [25] About 400 Anglo ...
A battle ensues with 10 Texans killed, 60 wounded and 200 Mexicans killed or wounded. After the second day of fighting, a Texan surrender is agreed upon. Approximately 342 of the captured Texans were not pardoned but were executed on March 27 in the Goliad Massacre with 20 spared and 28 escaped. Anger over Santa Anna's lack of mercy led many ...