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ESPANOLA, N.M. (AP) Chaos erupted Thursday as a gunshot rang out during a protest in northern New Mexico where officials had planned to install<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://wsvn.com/news/us-world/a-man-is-shot-and-wounded-as-tempers-flare-in-new-mexico-over-the-statue-of-a-spanish-conquistador/">Read More</a>
Early in 1991 Sonny Rivera visited me at NMSU in my capacity as director of the Latin American Studies program. He was sculpting a statue of Oñate in Juarez and
County officials removed the monument to the conquistador in 2020 amid fears clashes between Native protesters and armed militia groups at the site could turn violent.