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.

I'm out of words for how many of us in the community and the movement are feeling about the shocking and disturbing allegations against labor …

Mexico sought to capture major cartel head El Mencho, and he ended up dying as a result of the military attack. The United States apparently h…

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