Paul Espinosa has produced over 30 documentary films aired on PBS. Compiled By LA CUCARACHA STAFF Chicano filmmaker Paul Espinosa, toured Southern Colorado the last week of February showing his award-winning film “Singing Our Way to Freedom” — first released in 2020. The film is about the life and times of the late Ramon “Chunky”… Continue reading ‘Singing Our Way to Freedom’
Category: Education
Navigating higher-ed
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, invisible barriers, and few people who understand your background or your struggles. As… Continue reading Navigating higher-ed
Data centers take, not give
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 supplies. Also, the promise of jobs is a false one, according to a… Continue reading Data centers take, not give
AIM Liberation of Wounded Knee — 1973
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 the occupation, will be commemorated with drumming, singing and talks from numerous speakers… Continue reading AIM Liberation of Wounded Knee — 1973
Aaron Gutierrez
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 Senate District 3. He is running against others at the County caucus in… Continue reading Aaron Gutierrez
Hatched: The Invasion
SERIES CONTINUED: “Hatched: The Invasion is the fourth and final short story in a new La Cucaracha feature — excerpts from books. To read the earlier installments, scroll down to “Rat Tale,” “Shadows,” and “Hatched.” By Emiliano Medina Trujillo Chuck could see his hands moving, he felt like he was sitting in the back of… Continue reading Hatched: The Invasion
When They Come…
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 novel, but on the whole, this isn’t new. I would argue that this is about as American as it gets. America is no stranger to state or federal agents terrorizing cities.… Continue reading When They Come…
Walk Out!
HUNDRED OF YOUTH PROTEST I.C.E. By JUAN ESPINOSA Photos by EL MOVIMIENTO SIGUE VOLUNTEERS Several hundred Pueblo high school students walked out of their schools Thursday (Feb. 12, 2026) to protest the murders, detention and deportation of immigrants, many of them U.S. citizens, at the hands of masked I.C.E. and border patrol officers in recent… Continue reading Walk Out!
D60 adopts Right-Serving Plan
Bradford, Bessemer Academy, and Beulah Heights elementary schools to be closed By LA CUCARACHA Pueblo School District 60 Board announced the closure of three Pueblo city schools by a three to two vote for the Right-Serving Plan. Pueblo D60 board meeting on January 27th, 2026, was the culmination of multiple community meetings, surveys, robocalls, and… Continue reading D60 adopts Right-Serving Plan
Striving to be a doctor
Pueblo East Sider studying medicine in Mexico By LA CUCARACHA Thanks to a scholarship fund established to memorialize the tragic loss of Isaiah Vialpando, Pueblo East Sider, Mayra Placencia, is in Guadalajara, Mexico, studying to become a medical doctor. Vialpando was murdered in Downtown Pueblo by a young man who mistakenly believed he was a… Continue reading Striving to be a doctor