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Cecilio Garcia Camarillo: A Rememberance
A Cecilio Tribute
Tributes have been pouring into the KUNM offices to commemorate Cecilio Garcia Camarillo.
Click here to read our community tributes to Cecilio
If you have a picture of Cecilio you would like to have posted on this website, please notify Marcos Martinez by email, or by phone at 505-277-9980.
Photos and Images of Cecilio
An Obituary for Cecilio Garcia Camarillo
Cecilio Garcia-Camarillo, a poet, publisher and pioneer in Chicano literature, died of cancer at his Albuquerque home on Wednesday, January 16, 2002.
Garcia-Camarillo, 58, was one of the founding poets of the Chicano cultural renaissance of the 1960’s, an editor and publisher of three literary magazines, a playwright and an artist.
A cultural attach„ at the Mexican consulate in Albuquerque and for many years hosted a weekly radio program, “Espejos de Aztlan,” on KUNM.
Garcia-Camarillo was born in Laredo Texas, and moved to Albuquerque in 1977. He is survived by his daughters Cielo Garcia of Greensboro, N.C., and Karina Garcia of san Francisco; and a son, Itzolin Garcia of San Francisco.
“The community was very important to him, and his children,” said Cielo Garcia. “He took great pride in being a tremendous father and pretty much built his life around being a good father to us and to giving back with his writing.”
About a month before he died, she said her father quoted to the three children, “con los pies en la tierra y el corazon lleno de esperanza” – with your feet on the ground and your heart full of hope.
“To us it meant there was still hope - you have to be realistic, but you always have hope.” Her father was “a tremendously honorable man,” she said. “He was very grateful to be able to die at home. He was at peace.”
A Poem by Cecilio Garcia Camarillo
My working mestizo hands
Soar like brown eagles
Vamos ya, todos contentos
Cosechando nuestro querido Aztlan
Con ideas, con el arte
Y con un corazon fuerte
Vamos ya, todos contentos
thanking the sun
Thanking our mother earth
Celebrating nuestra raza
Que nunca mas sera conquistada
Cecilio Garcia-Camarillo
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A Rememberance and Tribute for Cecilio Garcia Camarillo
On January 16th, 2002, longtime KUNM volunteer Cecilio Garcia Camarillo passed away. Cecilio was the founder of Espejos de Aztlan, KUNM's longest-running local public affairs program.
In the coming days and weeks, this space will fill with words and pictures honoring Cecilio and his work. If you would like to submit your memories of Cecilio, a poem or a picture, please send them to Marcos Martinez, the News Director at KUNM and member of the Raices Collective.
You can send pictures by email, or by regular mail to:
Marcos Martinez
KUNM
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Major Exhibit on Aztlan Dedicated to Cecilio
The Albuquerque Museum is hosting a multimedia exhibit titled "The Road to Aztlan," which will be dedicated to the memory of Cecilio Garcia Camarillo.
The exhibit runs from February 10 until April 28. It includes lectures, an art exhibit and a film series.
The Road to Aztlan at the Albuquerque Museum
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