Early Years in Mission
Guerrero was the fifth of nine children born to Alvaro Guerrero (1918–1969) and the former Adela Salazar (born ca. 1921) in Mission near McAllen in the Rio Grande Valley. As a child in the 1960s, Lena worked during summers as a migrant laborer alongside her eight siblings.
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