La Cucaracha News is a website that evolved from La Cucaracha newspaper that began publishing in May It was started by a group of journalists who first met at the University of Colorado in Boulder in All four continue to be contributors to La Cucaracha News.
The staff of La Cucaracha was associated with the Chicano Press Association and exchanged photographs and stories with dozens of other associate publications over the years.
La Cucaracha was founded on the belief that Chicanos were not accurately represented in the major media and we chose to represent our community by creating our own independent newspaper. Between and , we developed an extensive archive of photographs, stories from the perspective of El Movimiento Chicano — the Chicano Civil Rights movement. After La Cucaracha ceased publication in December , many of the founders continued their journalism careers at other newspapers including The Pueblo Chieftain, and The Denver Post.
From those newsrooms, we continued to follow many of the same stories for the next two decades. The relaunch of La Cucaracha abruptly ended in August when The Pueblo Chieftain press closed its printing operation leaving 70 or more small newspapers without a printer.
Rather than look for a new printer in another city, we opted to continue our work online as La Cucaracha News.
