The family donated the Nogales home to the University of Arizona to use as a headquarters for border studies initiatives, but UA says repairs are too expensive.
Kathryn Palmer The family of the late Arizona Gov. Raúl H. Castro is suing the University of Arizona over an alleged breach of contract for trying to sell his home in Nogales, which the family donated to the university for a specific use.
Raúl Castro served from 1975-77 as Arizona’s first and only Mexican-American governor before becoming ambassador to Argentina from 1977-80. Many years later, in 2003, Raúl Castro and his wife, Patricia Castro, purchased and moved into the home in Nogales, which sits on the U.S.-Mexico border. In 2016, both parties signed an agreement that said the Castro family would donate the house to the UA Foundation if the UA “agreed to develop, launch, and maintain the Border Studies Program, under Raul and Patricia’s name and agreed to house the Border Studies Program in the Castro house,” according to the lawsuit.
Although the lawsuit repeatedly refers to a"Border Studies Program," UA spokeswoman Pam Scott clarified in an email to the Arizona Daily Star that “there has never been a Border Studies Program," but"instead, has various programs that do work related to the border.” Scott also elaborated to the Star that when the UA first took ownership of the property in 2016, it estimated the project to cost $600,000.
The suit asks for an injunction prohibiting the UA from selling the home and, ultimately, rescission of the 2016 agreement. That means if the courts side with Beth Castro, the house would come back into the ownership of the Castro family. In the past few years, Duran and his colleagues at the UA have received more than $2 million in grants to pursue academic study about the border.
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