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Cinco de Mayo ‘Show & Shine’

March 25, 2025
For the 2025 Cinco de Mayo event, the car show will be slightly different.  Lowrider cars, motorcycles, and bikes will be enhancing the landscape of Bessemer Park once again.  However, because the car show organizers realize that having a car show on

Pueblo City County Outstanding Women honored

March 25, 2025
By DEBORAH MARTINEZ MARTINEZ An audience of 400 greeted the 39 women being honored at the Pueblo Library Foundation’s Outstanding Women Awards in the fourth floor Ryals Room on March 20. For this 35th iteration of the awards, many Spanish-surnamed women were

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March 19, 2025
Democratic Party calls for end to taxpayer funding of Sheriff Lucero’s anti-union lawsuit By Monica Hughes, Communications Director Pueblo — The Pueblo Democratic Party is deeply concerned about the continued misuse of public funds to support Sheriff David Lucero’s lawsuit against International
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Who are La Cucaracha?

La Cucaracha newspaper began publishing in May 1976. It was started by a group of journalists who first met at the University of Colorado in Boulder in 1971 and went on to cover many of the most important stories of El Movimiento Chicano, including the strikes and boycotts organized by Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and the United Farm Workers Union...

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