La Cucaracha (newspaper)
''La Cucaracha'' (1976-1983) was an English and Spanish bilingual newspaper created by and for the Chicano community of Pueblo, Colorado. Creators Juan Espinosa, Deborah Espinosa, David Martinez and Pablo Mora recognized the exclusion of Chicanos in popular media and published the first issue in 1976. History While Juan and Deborah Espinosa attended the University of Colorado Boulder, they were active in El Movimiento and student civil rights groups such as United Mexican American Students (UMAS). They started a student newspaper, ''El Diario de la Gente'', to build cultural awareness of their community. They saw themselves being misrepresented by white mass media outlets and desired an outlet to tell their own stories. After graduating, the couple moved to Pueblo, Colorado, which had large population of Chicanos. In November 1975, the creators met with the Pueblo community at El Centro Quinto Sol to gather support for a Chicano newspaper, and recruit staff and supporters. ...
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Pueblo, Colorado
Pueblo () is a List of municipalities in Colorado#Home rule municipality, home rule municipality that is the county seat and the List of municipalities in Colorado, most populous municipality of Pueblo County, Colorado, Pueblo County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 111,876 at the 2020 United States Census, making Pueblo the List of municipalities in Colorado, ninth most populous city in Colorado. Pueblo is the principal city of the Pueblo, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and a major city of the Front Range Urban Corridor. Pueblo is situated at the confluence of the Arkansas River and Fountain Creek, south of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver. The area is considered semi-arid desert land, with approximately of precipitation annually. With its location in the "Banana Belt", Pueblo tends to get less snow than the other major cities in Colorado. Pueblo is one of the largest steel-producing cities in the United States, for which reason Pueblo is referred to ...
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