Biography
Amador Flores defended a family and communal land claim within the Tierra Amarilla land grant in northern New Mexico. Breakthrough’s Spring 1989 account says that, after an April 1988 injunction ordered him off the contested land, he burned the injunction and joined the occupation. It reports that he was jailed for contempt in June 1988 when he went to Santa Fe to present his case, then released on bail in August after agreeing not to occupy the land personally. Supporters continued the occupation. This is a contemporary attributed account of actual imprisonment arising from the land-rights struggle.
Amador Flores defended a family and communal land claim within the Tierra Amarilla land grant in northern New Mexico. Breakthrough’s Spring 1989 account says that, after an April 1988 injunction ordered him off the contested land, he burned the injunction and joined the occupation. It reports that he was jailed for contempt in June 1988 when he went to Santa Fe to present his case, then released on bail in August after agreeing not to occupy the land personally. Supporters continued the occupation. This is a contemporary attributed account of actual imprisonment arising from the land-rights struggle. The source explicitly reports jail confinement beginning in June 1988 and actual release on bail in August 1988. The first of each month is storage padding, not an asserted day. No exact arrest day, fixed imposed term or measured number of days/months served is supplied. Judge Bruce Kaufman is named as the judge who issued the earlier land injunction; the report does not separately identify the contempt sentencing judge.
Breakthrough, Spring 1989, Land Struggle in Tierra Amarilla, printed pages 37–39, PDF pages 39–41.
