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The distance from Guatemala City to El Paso, Texas, is roughly the same distance as from El Paso to The New York Times headquarters in Manhattan.  Amazingly, but unsurprisingly, rumor mills, half-truths, petty self-interest, and sheer desperation are as effective a means of opinion formulation at the Gray Lady as it is the downtrodden kids […]

In response to a headline calling Honudran child migrants “border-crashers,” last night Latino Rebels received the following quote from Newsweek’s managing editor Kira Bindrim: While no offense was intended—if we didn’t think this was an important issue, we wouldn’t have Karla [Zabludovsky] covering it—we understand that the headline was insensitive, and so changed it after […]

REMARKS TO THE PRESS WITH Q&A BY VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN Residence of the United States Ambassador Guatemala City, Guatemala 4:37 P.M. (Local) THE VICE PRESIDENT: Hello, folks. Thank you for waiting. I appreciate it. I’ve just finished, as most of you know, a day of meetings, and I would say very constructive meetings here […]

This morning Puerto Rico’s El Nuevo Día reported that United States flags with 51 stars and an extra stripe were on display in different locations around the island. According the article, pro-statehood advocates displayed the flags in celebration of Flag Day. Here is one of the flags at El Morro in Old San Juan (you […]

After receiving a May 22 email about reporting issues surrounding a May 21 New York Times “Upshot” piece by Nate Cohn proclaiming more and more Latinos are becoming this country’s next whites, “Upshot” managing editor David Leonhardt sent the following response to me this morning: Mr. Varela, Thanks very much for your e-mails, and I’m […]

So about a month since Nate Cohn of The New York Times boldly proclaimed that more Latinos were becoming “white” after basing his “analysis” on a partial report chronicled by a Pew senior research reporter, the actual authors of the study Cohn had referenced finally offered a more specific clarification about their initial study. Here […]

Here is the copy of a letter sent to the Department of Homeland Security from the following organizations: National Immigrant Justice Center, Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project, Americans for Immigrant Justice, Florence Immigrant Rights & Refugee Project and the ACLU Border Litigation Project: Systemic Abuse of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children by U.S. Customs and Border Protection by […]

Yesterday, President Barack Obama awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to the 65th U.S. Army Infantry Regiment, also known as the “Borinqueneers.” A decade ago no one would have predicted such an occasion nor was the 65th as popular as it is now. Not only was the 65th virtually forgotten by Puerto Ricans but the contribution of  hundreds of thousands of […]

This congressional primary campaign going on in New York City between incumbent Rep. Charles Rangel and State Senator Adriano Espaillat, his main challenger, is officially ugly. Last week, the debate focused on race and ethnicity. Today, as reported by The New York Observer, Dominican-born Espaillat told supporters that President Obama could do more to end […]

Cuando sonó la trompeta, estuvo todo preparado en la tierra, y Jehova repartió el mundo a Coca-Cola Inc., Anaconda, Ford Motors, y otras entidades: la Compañía Frutera Inc. se reservó lo más jugoso, la costa central de mi tierra, la dulce cintura de América. When the trumpet sounded everything was prepared on earth, and Jehovah […]

Original version here. It’s a far too familiar scene happening everyday all over the country: a person is arrested, incarcerated, possibly deported, for a non-violent drug related offense, and a family is torn apart. Thanks to the failed war on drugs, that person is most likely an African-American or a Latino even though whites use […]

Recently, a controversy about Latinos and racial classifications has led to heated debate based on a toxic mix of incomplete conclusions from research and rampant speculation. A draft presentation at the Population Association of America (PAA) chronicled by a Pew Research senior writer was then picked up by Nate Cohn, writing for The New York […]

On Sunday, Salvador Sánchez Cerén, who went by the nom de guerre “Comandante Leonel González” during El Salvador’s 12-year civil war, was adorned with the presidential sash as he officially assumed the office of the presidency. Gripping the sides of the podium with both hands, he addressed the nearly six thousand guests, including 13 foreign leaders, invited […]

You know who Joe T. Hodo is, the hilarious satirical character whose Frack U video went viral in Mexico late last year. Last week, Hodo (played by Gregory Berger) was invited to appear on Mexico’s Milenio TV. Berger sent us a clip of Hodo’s appearance, and yes it is hilarious, because you don’t really know […]

Editor’s Note: A previous version of this piece was published on Dr. Rodríguez’s blog. Nate Cohn in The New York Times opened a racial pandora’s box with his article on the whitening of Latinos. He received responses from a number of interested observers of Latino issues—from Latino Rebels to academics such as Amitai Etzioni and Manuel Pastor. Today […]

When I wrote an opinion piece on May 21 basically questioning an incredibly misleading piece by Nate Cohn of The New York Times’ “Upshot” blog, I never would have thought that 1) Latino Rebels would still be covering the story; 2) The Times would not yet respond to my emails about Cohn’s reporting; and 3) […]

A little Washington DC media elitism for you today? In a piece today by POLITICO’s Dylan Byers titled, “Anchor with attitude: Jorge Ramos fights for immigration reform,” the condescending side of the English-language mainstream media was clear. What was supposed to be a profile of why Ramos has arguably become one of the most influential […]

Like our founder wrote last week, quoting Spiderman, “With great power comes great responsibility.” Such is the case about about The New York Times and how writer Nate Cohn irresponsibly reported news from a study he never actually read. Now MSNBC’s Chris Hayes decided to go all-in with Cohn’s piece and the results were disastrous. […]

This happened yesterday. Watch. Fusion’s Jordan Fabian and yes, Jorge Ramos, have the rest of the story here.

“The Obama Administration has an unprecedented opportunity to usher in significant progress using its executive authority at a time when public opinion on Cuba policy has shifted toward greater engagement with the Cuban people while continuing to pressure the Cuban government on human rights.” So states an open letter to President Barack Obama, signed by […]

Yesterday, The New York Times’ “Upshot” blog announced the following to the world: “More Hispanics Declaring Themselves White.” The piece, written by Nate Cohn, included the animated image of a figure shifting from silver grey to ivory white and this lede paragraph: “Hispanics are often described as driving up the nonwhite share of the population. […]