“El Diario de la Gente” was an independent newspaper primarily published for and by Chicanx students at the University of Colorado Boulder biweekly between 1972 and 1983, with various runs/special editions in 2000, the early 2010s and 2019. Through 62 issues, the newspaper represents the extraordinary yet complicated history of the Chicanx Rights Movement in Boulder, the state of Colorado and the world.
Founded by UMAS members Juan and Deborah Espinosa, David Martinez and Pablo Mora, and continued by various UMAS y Mecha members throughout the years, the authors and editors covered a wide range of topics — including boycotts and protests, the tragic events surrounding Los Seis de Boulder, and the friction between the Chicanx student community and the CU Boulder administration. The activist newspaper also served as a creative platform for poetry, art, and literature. Today, we aim to continue the legacy of “El Diario,” as we hope this iteration will serve the same purpose as the original — to publicize the struggle for liberation.
“What we wanted to do was record our own history and report our own news and that was the intent. We did not get fair coverage in any media and we felt the only way to have fair coverage was to create our own and that was the intent.”
– Juan Espinosa, Remembering Los Seis, 2019
You can find an archive of historic “El Diario” copies at the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection or in person at CU Boulder’s Norlin Library Rare and Distinctive Collection
See History, Overview of El Diario – ’72-83 for a more in-depth retelling of our history.
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