Teresa Urrea: The Mexican Joan of Arc

Latino USA

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Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In the late 1800s, Teresa Urrea was a superstar. She was a ‘curandera,’ or healer, a revolutionary, and a feminist. At only 19 years old she was exiled from Mexico by dictator Porfirio Diaz, who called her the most dangerous girl in the country, and moved to El Paso, Texas. She also had a miraculous power: she could heal people through touch. Her vision of love and equality for all people regardless of gender, race, and class inspired rebellions against the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz, earning her the title the Mexican Joan of Arc. In this episode, we follow Teresa Urrea’s life, and honor the legacy of a revolutionary woman decades ahead of her time.

This episode originally aired in November 2021.

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0:56.0	You can see Juarez from where we're standing. You can see the buildings across the river. You can see the fence right there that divides the two countries.
1:05.0	So Juarez is right in view.
1:09.0	It's the Casp of Summer as the sun sets over La Frontera.
1:13.0	I joined Dr. Yolanda Leva, a history professor at the University of Texas at El Paso.
1:20.0	And there's also David Dromo, a historian who specializes on the US Mexico borderlands.
1:26.0	Just from this street alone, I mean you could just go building by building and it tells you the most important chapters of Mexican American history.
1:37.0	We are within walking distance of the Paso del North of the bridge, one of the border bridges that connects El Paso to Sila Juarez.
1:44.0	The Rio Grande River, the natural division between the United States and Mexico, snakes below the bridge.
1:51.0	The three of us are standing in front of a red brick apartment building in Seguundo Barrio, a historic neighborhood in downtown El Paso.
1:59.0	In the late 1800s, thousands of Mexican immigrants pass through or lived in Seguundo Barrio. It's also known as the Alice Island of the Border.
2:10.0	Not the other Alice Island, but the original Alice Island.
2:14.0	The colorful streets of this neighborhood are full with layers of history, once it was home to the tostado or dontosti.
2:22.0	He was the first Mexican American musician to sell more than a million records and he was a Pachucco.
2:30.0	A few blocks down lived a velardo delgado, a Chicano writer and community organizer.
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