Former MEDC Board President advocates for Tejano monument
Dr. Cayetano Barrera, historian, local doctor and past-president of the McAllen Economic Development Corporation has pushed for the creation of a monument on the Texas Capitol Grounds that honors Tejano culture.
Barrera said: “Time makes more converts than reason. It was not fashionable to have Spanish and Mexican history in our books. This, I don’t think, could have happened 30 years ago. But times change.”
The Texas Historical Preservation Board approved the site and design of the monument in January. The Tejano Monument Inc. still has to raise more than $500,000 to cover any cost over-runs for the bronze casting, insurance for the monument and the eventual unveiling ceremony, which could draw thousands of people, said the group’s co-Vice President Renato Ramirez.
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