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NISGUA (Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala) filed the following Day 7 report (from April 1, 2013) of the genocide trial of former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt and ex-intelligence chief Mauricio Rodriguez Sánchez in Guatemala City. They have given us permission to republish all their reports about this historic trial. NISGUA continues live coverage of the trial in […]

Yesterday we ran an April Fools piece that the Associated Press had dropped the terms “illegal immigrant” and “illegal” when describing a person. Today, it really did happen. We repeat: it really did happen. The AP dropped the “I-Word” when describing people. As first reported by Cristina Costantini of ABC/Univision, the AP posted an official […]

Is Pennsylvania Rep. Lou Barletta part of some unknown Italian American tribe that has always been here in this country because last time we checked the Ellis Island records, there are about 667 people named Barletta who crossed the Atlantic Ocean for a better life in the United States of America. Guess Rep. Barletta can’t […]

As first reported by The New York Daily News, “several immigrant rights and Latino groups” are planning a noontime protest tomorrow in front of the New York office of Senator Chuck Schumer as well as other events around the country to raise awareness about Schumer’s “extreme positions on immigration.” News of the protest events comes […]

UPDATE, April 1, 2021: Our publisher was finally able to locate the 1974 letter Chávez wrote to the San Francisco Examiner on November 27, 1974. Books about this letter erroneously cited it as being published in November 22, 1974. Here is a thread from our publisher about what the letter said: Am acknowledging the terms […]

The craziness continues. UPDATE: Some people thought that this entire fuss was about the late Hugo Chávez. Seriously. UPDATE: Google has responded. We enjoy celebrating holidays at Google but, as you may imagine, it’s difficult for us to choose which events to highlight on our site. Sometimes for a given date we feature an historical […]

Here is what Florida Senator Marco Rubio issued this morning in response to the news that major progress has been made on a comprehensive immigration bill: I’m encouraged by reports of an agreement between business groups and unions on the issue of guest workers. However, reports that the bipartisan group of eight senators have agreed […]

So Alaska Rep. Don Young’s last few days were ones he would rather forget, after he had to apologize twice for “wetback” comments he made during his remarks on Alaska public radio. Young, who said he had “no malice in his heart” when he made the “wetback” comments, will likely still need to address his […]

The Internet does contain some good video and audio examples of César Chávez and his words. Here are five that we found. NOTE: The second video listed here is a 26-minute “lost interview” at the United Farm Workers (UFW) headquarters in Keene, California. There is no sound for the first three minutes or for the […]

After news broke that an agreement between business and labor was finally reached regarding comprehensive immigration reform, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka issued the following statement today: The labor movement has no higher priority in 2013 than to build a workable immigration system that will allow 11 million aspiring Americans to become citizens. Each day we […]

We got the following video from Liberation Frequency. Here is what the LF reported: Florida Senator Marco Rubio was invited to speak at the University of Louisville’s School of Music on March,25 2013. The Kentucky Dream Coalition took advantage of the oppurtunity to organize a speak out where undocumented immigrants could share their stories and […]

On March 27, the national news media confirmed that Arizona senator John McCain (R) was live-tweeting the news of a woman who had scaled an 18-foot border fence in Nogales, AZ in the middle of the day, just yards away from four U.S. senators and a U.S. Border Patrol station. FOX News reported the following: “It […]

The response to Alaska Rep. Don Young’s “wetback” comments broadcast on KRBD yesterday has already reached the national spotlight, after Speaker John Boehner slammed his Republican colleague for “offensive” remarks “beneath the dignity of the office [Young] holds.” We emailed KRBD earlier today to ask them why they broadcast Young’s comments without any follow-up questions […]

UPDATE, March 29, 2013, 4:45 pm EST: Young issued another apology. UPDATE, March 29, 2013, 2pm EST: KRBD responded to our questions about its broadcast. UPDATE, March 29, 2013, 12:30 pm EST: Speaker John Boehner issued a very strong statement calling Young’s comments “offensive” and “beneath the dignity of the office [Young] holds.” Guess Alaska […]

Today the Facebook page of United We Dream posted the following: Yesterday QUIP leader, Jerssay Arredondo, was asked by HRC to speak in front of thousands of people in front of the Supreme Court to repeal DOMA. Just before getting on stage he was told to not say he was Undocumented! SHARE & Post this picture as […]

Yesterday, four U.S. senators from the Gang of Eight (John McCain, Chuck Schumer, Jeff Flake, and Michael Bennet) visited the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales, Arizona, the city directly north of Nogales, Mexico. The purpose was for McCain and Flake, the two Republican Arizona senators whose state borders Mexico, to show Schumer and Bennet, the two Democratic senators […]

NISGUA (Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala) filed the following Day 6 report of the genocide trial of former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt and ex-intelligence chief Mauricio Rodriguez Sánchez in Guatemala City. They have given us permission to republish all their reports about this historic trial. NISGUA continues live coverage of the trial in Guatemala of Efraín Rios […]

The following letter from the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration (PRFAA) was sent to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel yesterday. The past weekend, according the Associated Press, “a young tourist was burned after she picked up an old shell containing white phosphorous dropped by the U.S. Navy when it used the island of Culebra for bombing […]

First of all, we want to give props to Jesse Washington, the Associated Press’ National Writer on Race and Ethnicity, for taking the time to tweet with us today. He didn’t have to, but it was really cool that he did. The subject was our response to an AP piece that Washington wrote over the […]

Originally published at JulioRVarela.com I am tired. I am tired of how the US mainland media continues to portray the island-territory of Puerto Rico with one broad brushstroke—that it is a new hotbed of violence and chaos. Recently, Fortune’s Cyrus Sanati told U.S. billionaires to “beware” of Puerto Rico, saying that the island “has a bevy […]

Here is one story that isn’t getting much attention, but should be. On February 2nd, 2013, to mark the annual World Wetlands Day, the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance has designated its largest site ever in the South American country of Bolivia. At more than 17 million acres, the Llanos de Moxos wetland […]