In the mid-1980s, Saracho served as a reporter for the broadsheets
Malaya () and
Tinig ng Masa () during the dictatorship of President
Ferdinand Marcos. In December 1985, Saracho formed the group Discussions of Writers and Artists (DIWA) with A. R. Pascua, which sought to bring together journalists and artists from various fields to collaborate with each other. In 1990, he formed Bagong Dugo, a theatre group that staged plays themed around politics and human rights. In July 2003, while serving as a news writer during
ABS-CBN News's coverage of the
Oakwood mutiny by aggrieved soldiers, Saracho suggested using the name "Magdalo" to describe the group, citing the red armbands the soldiers wore that had a white sun at the center. Although his attribution for the red armbands to the flag of
Katipunan's
Magdalo faction was mistaken (the armbands more closely resembled the flag of Katipunan's
Magdiwang faction), with the group itself actually using the name "Bagong Katipunan" (), the name "Magdalo" became widely used among the media to refer to the soldiers. Naval officer
Antonio Trillanes IV, one of the spokespersons for the Bagong Katipunan during the mutiny, organizations representing members of Bagong Katipunan would also use the name, such as the
Samahang Magdalo civic organization in 2008 and the
Magdalo Party-List in 2010. As a member of T'bak Inc., Saracho assisted Ferdinand Llanes in the compilation of stories set during the
martial law period under President Marcos for the book
Tibak Rising: Activism in the Days of Martial Law, a project initiated in 2004 which would later be published in July 2012. In February 2020, Saracho was accused of narrating the video series
Ang Totoong Narcolist that claimed president
Rodrigo Duterte to be involved in the illegal drug trade, being charged by the
Department of Justice with conspiracy to commit sedition alongside former senator Antonio Trillanes and Eduardo Acierto. ==Filmography==