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Vacant, burned buildings create blight

October 6, 2025
East Side residents complain of transient invasion, lack of police services By Juan Espinosa How many boarded up or vacant houses are there on your block? If you live in some areas of Pueblo’s East Side, the answer could be four or five and may include badly burned buildings awaiting
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Marcha por Montour

Plaza Verde Park to Quinto Sol march honored Eddie Montour By VICENTE MARTÍNEZ ORTEGA Over

Transforming Justice

St. Pat’s Day Raid

March 13, 2026
Chicano History 101: On March 17, 1973, the Denver Police raided Denver’s Crusade For Justice. By JUAN ESPINOSA DENVER — Luis “Junior” Martinez was

Gaza as bad as ever

February 16, 2026
After 12 Foreign Deployments Aguilar Says Gaza Conditions Worse Witnessed By JOSEPH ALAN SANCHEZ FREE THE OPPRESSED is the Special Forces motto he has

When They Come…

February 13, 2026
Guest Editorial By AARO KARJALA This isn’t new. I’ll grant you that federal agents shooting middle-class white people in the face is a bit

When youth lead…

February 6, 2026
We listen Pueblo Middle Schools march for justice Cucaracha News Staff Report The killing of Trayvon Martin in February 2012, became a spark that

Rest in Power!

January 31, 2026
PUEBLO, Colo.— The community has lost a giant, in the on-going fight for civil rights, human dignity and love and respect for all, in

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El Profesor has left the classroom

March 26, 2026
Compiled by La Cucaracha News staff Anyone who has ever taken a Chicano Studies class will remember the name of Rodolfo Acuña and saddened to learn of his death. Acuña’s “Occupied American” is the cornerstone of the academic focus of many of the generation of Chicanos who moved on to university and college campuses throughout the nation. Acuña founded the Chicana/o
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Move Mountains

March 13, 2026
12 YEARS EMPOWERING YOUTH LEADERS Reprinted from the Costilla County Free Press San Luis, CO – In the past year, 14 youth leaders participated in more than 20 different learning and work experiences — earning $15 per hour for their involvement. The
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Navigating higher-ed

March 5, 2026
Alone…Afraid…Anxious…Nervous…Confused…Lost… By CELESTE MOLINA Those are all the feelings one might experience when navigating the unfamiliar journey of higher education. For first-generation and migrant students, college can feel like stepping into a world designed for someone else, a world of unspoken rules,
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Data centers take, not give

March 3, 2026
By DEBORAH MARTINEZ MARTINEZ  In Southern Colorado, climate pollution is affecting the way people perceive the push to put large data centers in their communities. Data centers can consume as much electricity as 175,000 homes and there is concern for scarce water
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AIM Liberation of Wounded Knee — 1973

February 27, 2026
PINE RIDGE, S.D. — This year marks 53 years since members of AIM (American Indian Movement) occupied Wounded Knee, AND 136 years since the U.S. Army massacred 146 Lakota men, women and children at the site. Feb. 27, 2026, the anniversary of
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Aaron Gutierrez

February 19, 2026
Local Attorney and Community Leader Announces Candidacy for Colorado State Senate District 3 BY DEBORAH MARTINEZ MARTINEZ The March Pueblo Caucuses will see Aaron Gutierrez, a local business owner with deep roots in Pueblo, running for a seat in the Colorado State
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