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: History
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
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
Gaza as bad as ever
After 12 Foreign Deployments Aguilar Says Gaza Conditions Worse Witnessed By JOSEPH ALAN SANCHEZ FREE THE OPPRESSED is the Special Forces motto he has sought to follow during the course of his military career. A highly decorated combat veteran with Bronze Star and Purple Heart awards, Lt. Col. Anthony Aguilar in his 25 years of… Continue reading Gaza as bad as ever
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…
Angela Giron enters commissioner’s race
By JUAN ESPINOSA When she announced her candidacy for Pueblo County Commissioner, former State Senator Angela Giron says she knew she was in for a fight. “I’m a fighter! I fight for what’s right and I don’t back down and that’s what I’ll do at the County,” she said in an interview with La Cucaracha… Continue reading Angela Giron enters commissioner’s race
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
Finding Chicano Roots
By La Cucaracha Staff What names have you called yourself or names others have called you? The question was posed by narrator Charlene Barrientos Ortiz. The responses from the audience started out tame — Mexican-American… Chicano… Spanish… Hispanic… Latino… LatinX… — then it got ugly — wetback, illegal, undocumented… That’s how the Calle Cultural Community… Continue reading Finding Chicano Roots
Bravo!
Bad Bunny represents us all By MAGADALENO ‘LENO’ AVILA — Guest Columnist The sixtieth playing of the Super Bowl featured the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots — Seattle won by a score of 29-13. And then there was the halftime show with Bad Bunny. “They don’t even have to learn Spanish. Better they… Continue reading Bravo!