In 1978, Texas Democratic Rep. Eligio “Kika” de la Garza was invited to accompany his colleague Rep. Leo J. Ryan to Guyana on a fact-finding mission and escort people being held at the People ...

A Hispanic pioneer in the world of state and national politics, former Congressman Eligio “Kika” de la Garza died Monday in a McAllen hospital. He was 89. Family told reporters that de la ...