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
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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
When youth lead…
We listen Pueblo Middle Schools march for justice Cucaracha News Staff Report The killing of Trayvon Martin in February 2012, became a spark that helped ignite a generation of young people who would later challenge many forms of state violence from police brutality to immigration enforcement. Years later, on what would have been his 31st… Continue reading When youth lead…
Mendoza Makes Miami Believe
By Joseph Alan Sanchez What in the name of Jim Plunkett just happened in Miami? A young man named Fernando Mendoza just had the most remarkable night of his college football life while leading the unlikely-to-succeed Indiana Hoosiers to their first ever national gridiron championship. The Indiana senior year quarterback led his team to an… Continue reading Mendoza Makes Miami Believe
Life, after life without parole
By JUAN ESPINOSA They say, we learn from our mistakes. David Carrillo, 51, wants the young men and women he encounters to learn from his mistakes. As a 19-year-old gang leader, Carrillo was convicted of first degree murder of a young man in 1993 who was a member of a rival gang. He was sentenced… Continue reading Life, after life without parole
Headstart
Still a revolutionary social program By DEBORAH MARTINEZ MARTINEZ Pueblo Headstart program is moving forward with a recently-opened center in Walsenburg at 100 W. Spruce with the help of the new fiscal collaborator Chicanos por la Causa. The previous Headstart programs were run by Rocky Mountain SER, and the changeover happened two years ago. Pueblo… Continue reading Headstart
Racial Profiling & ICE
A modern echo of old injustice By NATASHA GUTIERREZ — GUEST COLUMNIST PUEBLO — Fear and injustice doesn’t always arrive with flashing lights. Sometimes it shows up in quiet ways — like when a family chooses not to leave home for groceries because they’re afraid the color of their skin will make them a target. … Continue reading Racial Profiling & ICE
A Place for Boys and Girls of Pueblo
BY DEBORAH MARTINEZ MARTINEZ Over 2,100 Pueblo children and teens receive services from the nine Clubhouses and three extension sites at Boys & Girls Clubs of Pueblo County. Some parents use the clubs as out-of-school-time care and some embrace the opportunity for their kids to be active and engaged, according to Angela Giron, President/CEO. Six… Continue reading A Place for Boys and Girls of Pueblo