In 1954, Ernesto Portillo left his job as a DJ in Ciudad Juárez for a chance to live in the United States, join Tucson’s first Spanish-language radio station, and launch a career that would make him a fixture of Tucson’s media landscape.

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Archive Tucson is a living and growing collection of audio interviews about life and change in Tucson and Southern Arizona. UAL Oral Historian and Videographer, Aengus Anderson, has spent more than five years interviewing 100+ people and recording their stories about our city.