About

Lalo Alcaraz is an award-winning visual/media artist and television/film writer. A Los Angeles resident, he has been chronicling the ascendancy of Latinos in the U.S. for over a quarter-century.

He is the creator of the syndicated daily comic strip "La Cucaracha" seen in the L.A. Times and other newspapers nationwide. He is founder and Jefe-in-Chief of POCHO.

He was an editorial cartoonist for the L.A. Weekly from 1992-2010 and now creates editorial cartoons in English and Spanish for Andrews McMeel Syndication, Daily Kos, and various newspapers, including Philadelphia’s Al Dia News.

Today is the ICE OUT General Strike in support of Minnesota. No work (maybe some editorial cartooning though) and no shopping, no school, no n…

Despite court rulings, pushback and public outrage, ICE continues to racially profile and terrorize the residents of Los Angeles. They haven't…

A 5-year-old preschooler, Liam Conejo Ramos, was taken by federal agents from the driveway of his metro Minneapolis home Tuesday after returni…

California passed California Senate Bill 627, (the "No Secret Police Act"), signed by Governor Newsom in September 2025, which bans local and …

In an effort to help Latinas avoid birth defects, the State of California has mandated that Folic Acid be added as an ingredient to current to…

During an ICE surge in Minnesota, a federal agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good. (Lalo Alcaraz calonews.com/multimedia/lalooncalo/)

A nation has been outraged at the attacks on civilians by ICE and other unhinged and untrained bounty hunters as they kidnap people off the st…

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