La Voz Del Pueblo (Santa Fe, Nuevo México; Las Vegas, N.M.) 1889-192?
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,024 issues from 1891 to 1919, published in Santa Fe, New Mexico, digitised for Chronicling America.
La Voz del Pueblo (“The Voice of the People”) was published weekly in Las Vegas, New Mexico, from June 14, 1890, until February 10, 1927. Established in 1835, Las Vegas grew quickly due to its position on the Santa Fe Trail. In August of 1846 the town witnessed General Stephen Watts Kearny’s proclamation taking control of New Mexico for the United States. The town continued to grow after the arrival of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad in 1879, and became New Mexico’s largest and most commercially active city by 1900. However, by the 1920s Las Vegas began to decline, largely because much of the railroad activity had moved south to Albuquerque.
Prior to the paper’s establishment in Las Vegas, La Voz del Pueblo had been based in Santa Fe, under the direction of Enrique H. Salazar and Nestor Montoya, who operated the paper from February 2, 1889, until June 7, 1890. Montoya later served as editor of Albuquerque’s La Bandera Americana (“The American Flag”). During this time territorial leaders increased their control of the press by becoming publishers themselves. Felix Martinez, the Unions People’s party leader, bought La Voz del Pueblo in 1890. In the early issues it advocated Martinez’s political views. By 1900, however, the paper strongly supported the Democrats. In 1904, Ezequiel C. de Baca had joined Martinez as the paper’s treasurer. De Baca went on to become New Mexico’s second governor in 1917. Martinez continued to manage La Voz del Pueblo until June 1917,…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
- Language
- Spanish
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress