Chicano journalist-activist Olvera dies at 71
*Joe Olvera was considered a giant among El Paso journalists and activists. He worked in several El Paso dailies, he was an editor at USA Today and the author of several books about Chicano history and activism. In 1981 he ran for mayor of El Paso. VL
By David Burge, El Paso Times (read time 1.7 minutes)
El Paso lost one of its giants this weekend.
Joe Olvera, a pioneering Chicano journalist, writer and community activist, died at age 71 Friday in El Paso.
His daughter, Diana Olvera Garcia, wrote on her Facebook page that she lost her “hero” Friday when he passed away from a heart attack.
“I’m going to miss him so much. His jokes, his voice, his laugh, his wise words,” she wrote.
Olvera, an El Paso native, worked as a reporter for the El Paso Times, the El Paso Herald-Post and KDBC-TV. He also worked at USA Today as one of the editors on its Across the USA page. In recent years, he had been battling diabetes.
He also wrote several books, including “Voces de la Gente” and his latest “Chicano – Sin Fin! Memoirs of a Chicano Journalist.”
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