Details of a Chicano activist's mysterious death are unraveled in a new podcast
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Details of a Chicano activist's mysterious death are unraveled in a new podcast
Natalie Paredes, left, and Oscar Gomez in 1992, two years before his death. Courtesy of Natalie Paredes hide caption
Natalie Paredes, left, and Oscar Gomez in 1992, two years before his death.
Courtesy of Natalie ParedesIt was the early '90s and a voice piercing through the airwaves at a student radio station in Davis, California, galvanized the growing Chicano movement.
Within a few years, that man would be dead.
His voice silenced.
His name was Oscar Gomez and his body was found at the bottom of a massive bluff in Santa Barbara.
KPCC/LAist's Adolfo Guzman-Lopez has been unraveling the details of his mysterious death and the legacy he left behind, in a new podcast — Imperfect Paradise: The Forgotten Revolutionary.