El Tecolote

07/17/2026

¡Hola, gente! The team behind El Tecolote cares deeply about listening to our readers and community members — and we’d love to hear from YOU! 🦉🗞️

Take our five-minute audience survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/39D8SNF

Your input will directly shape how we produce journalism that informs, defends and uplifts San Francisco’s working-class, immigrant and Latino communities.

As a thank-you, everyone who completes the survey can request a special print edition of El Tecolote mailed directly to them!

07/01/2026

🇲🇽 Mexico won their first World Cup knockout round in 40 years! Mexico beat Ecuador, 2-0 with goals by Julian Quiñones and Raul Jimenez. ⚽️⚽️

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07/01/2026

México wins 2-0! 🇲🇽

07/01/2026

Teco team is at tonight’s Mexican Cuisine Puerto Alegre World Cup Mexico vs Ecuador watch party, hosted by Acción Latina Clecha SF and yours truly 🦉💥 The beloved Mexican restaurant is packed with fans wearing green and belting out porras. Come join us!! 🇲🇽⚽

06/28/2026

San Francisco’s Trans March began Friday with joy, music and celebration - and ended with five arrests and concerns about police use of force.

📹 : Emma Garcia

06/27/2026

HAPPENING NOW: The Latinx trans community behind El/La Para TransLatinas is participating in today’s San Francisco Trans March, one of the largest trans events in the world.

The march began at Dolores Park and will proceed along Market Street toward Turk and Taylor streets.

📹: Emma Garcia "Pol Talk”

06/27/2026

We are proud to announce that El Tecolote’s newsroom received national and statewide recognition in June for its visual journalism, public service, immigration and investigative reporting, as well as its deep commitment to the community it serves! ¡Viva Teco! 🦉📰

El Tecolote’s newsroom received national and statewide recognition in June for its visual journalism, public service, immigration and investigative reporting, as well as its deep commitment to the community it serves.

06/19/2026

Community members and immigrant rights advocates are organizing across the Bay Area against proposed ICE facilities in Northern California, including a planned processing facility near Gilroy and concerns that the shuttered FCI Dublin women’s prison could be reopened for immigration detention.

🎥: Emma Garcia

06/18/2026

One of the most requested topics from our community is updates on fast-changing immigration policies.

We just published our latest immigration roundup, featuring updates on asylum processing, ICE detention conditions, new guidance affecting green card applicants, immigration court changes and other major developments from May and June.

Visit eltecolote.org to read the full roundup.

📝: Mariana Durán

06/16/2026

El Tecolote’s latest print edition is out! 🦉🗞️

This issue’s cover features Iris Alejandra Arcos-Cisneros, a member of Tiliches del Comité Pochtlán, posing in traditional tiliche attire in San Francisco’s Mission District.

📸: Portrait by Alexa “LexMex” Treviño (Alexa Treviño)

Inside this edition:

• What the California primary election results could mean for housing affordability and the cost of living

• An English-language explainer on a critical Medi-Cal renewal deadline for immigrants

• A Spanish-language guide to renewing Medi-Cal and avoiding coverage gaps

• A Spanish-language guide to protecting your CalFresh benefits amid policy changes

• A tribute to Gloria Peralta, a beloved longtime street vendor in the Mission District

• Upcoming events, community resources and a Sudoku puzzle

• And more!

Find your free copy in panaderías, restaurants, laundromats, taquerias and more throughout the Mission District and beyond! ✨