Colorado Public Radio

Pueblo’s Chicano newspaper, La Cucaracha, is again rolling off the presses regularly after a 40-year hiatus

Back in 1976 a handful of young journalists launched a Pueblo-based Chicano newspaper. They called it La Cucaracha. These volunteers covered issues critical to their southern Colorado community. But ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Lalo Alcaraz’s La Cucaracha comic strip must go. It is blatantly political.

Re Lalo Alcaraz’s La Cucaracha comic strip of May 2: This was both inappropriate and offensive and should not be featured in a “family-friendly” newspaper’s comics section. Alcaraz’s La Cucaracha ...
The Pueblo Chieftain

CSU Pueblo exhibit explores La Cucaracha, local newspaper that covered Chicano movement

Juan and Deborah Espinosa graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder as the civil rights movement gained traction across the country. Joined by fellow student activists, they came to Pueblo, a ...