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Porvenir: One of the darkest chapters of Texas history

The sharp blast of gunfire broke the early morning quiet on a cold January morning in 1918. Thirteen men and two boys had just been rounded up from a small village on the Texas border and slaughtered. The families knew who the assailants were, but no one dared speak out,

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