UA professor & Chicano activist Roberto 'Cintli' Rodriguez dead at 69

Roberto Rodriguez, an award-winning Chicano activist, writer, and professor of Mexican American Studies at the University of Arizona, died Monday of heart failure in Teotihuacan, Mexico. He was 69.
Rodriguez was a journalist, writer, lecturer and beloved UA professor. He authored four books and numerous essays, poems, and columns. Rodriguez was a champion of Mexican American Studies classes in Arizona public schools and was one of the only UA faculty members to be arrested for protesting the Ethnic Studies ban in 2010.
“He was heroic,” said Patrisia Gonzales, Rodriguez’s colleague and wife of 20 years. “He was someone really touched by destiny.”
Rodriguez was born in Aguascalientes, Mexico…