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The Librotraficante Caravan – Standing Room Only Crowds and $20K in Books Distributed

March 20th, 2012

HOUSTON (March 19, 2012) – Ending a Spring Break 2012 week of standing room only events in San Antonio and El Paso, TX; Mesilla and Albuquerque, NM; and Tucson, AZ, the Librotraficante Caravan returned to Houston close to midnight Sunday evening. Merely a post in twitter verse two months ago, the Librotraficante Caravan attracted crowds of more [...]

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Librotraficante Caravan Launches Underground Libraries in Texas, New Mexico & Arizona

February 20th, 2012

Houston – The Librotraficante Caravan set to smuggle banned books back into Arizona has established a network of Underground Libraries in Houston, San Antonio, Albuquerque and Tucson. The Librotraficante Caravan is partnering with nonprofit organizations to help receive, catalogue, distribute and provide an open environment for students and communities to access books. We intend to [...]

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Librotraficante Caravan to Smuggle Banned Books Back into Arizona Has Sparked a National Movement

February 10th, 2012

The Librotraficante Caravan will travel from Houston, Texas to Tucson, Arizona with not only a payload of contraband books, but it will also create a network of Underground Libraries, and other community resources in its wake. As one of many responses to Arizona’s unconstitutional laws prohibiting Latino Studies, The Librotraficante Caravan has captured the imagination [...]

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