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Ramon Chacon

Race:Hispanic
Era:1970s
State:Texas
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Biography

Chicano activist known for organizing for the rights of Mexican people in Texas' Rio Grande Valley, arrested on what The Black Panther Vol. 15 no.2 (1976) calls false gun-smuggling charges and detained at the Topo Chico prison in Mexico, seen as a joint U.S.-Mexican effort to entrap him. [Source: The Black Panther (Black Panther Party newspaper), v15 no.2; digitized at marxists.org — https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/black-panther/index.htm]

Case

Topo Chico Prison
Charges: Gun smuggling
Sentence: Chicano organizer for Mexican people's rights in the Rio Grande Valley arrested on what the source calls false gun-smuggling charges and detained at Topo Chico prison; described as a joint U.S.–Mexican effort to entrap him. Charges as recorded: Gun smuggling (alleged; called false)
Convicted: No
Institution State: Nuevo León, Mexico