Curando Pharr/Valle is an intersectional community organization empowering our people in a variety of ways through activism, the arts, local history, and culture. Curando Pharr/Valle was launched in the Summer of 2014 by four local activists. It was a vigil to honor Alfonso Loredo Flores, a local teenager who was murdered by deputy sheriff Robert Johnson in 1971 during the Pharr Riots. An event wh
ich coincided with the Chican@ movement in the RGV at the time, fighting against segregation, mostly in schools. The vigil was crucial as it commented on the past and present, intertwining RGV history with recent events such as police brutality and attacks on Mexican-American studies. Since then, Curando Pharr/Valle has helped host and participate in several events and actions, such as being a part of the Caravana 43 RGV Committee.
