Politics

So you’re celebrating carnaval… It may be at a club, it may be a house party, wherever it is and whoever it throwing it, it’s not for me to say, “Don’t go!” The rhythms, the costumes, the melodies, the floats, the skin; the spectacle that is carnaval worldwide, especially the Brazilian version, can be hard […]

If growing up, you were given or not given things, opportunities or even certain sermones, it most likely had to do with your gender. If you were a girl and wanted to run around the patio instead of playing indoors, a relative may have called you impropia. If you were a boy and wanted to […]

Last night on Latino Rebels Radio during a detailed conversation about the shooting death of Antonio Zambrano-Montes in Pasco, Washington, Felix Vargas of Consejo Latino said that his group would be formally requesting the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the case. The following is the letter Vargas sent today to Attorney General Eric Holder. […]

“Jane, you ignorant slut.” So began the famed catchphrase by Saturday Night Live’s Dan Aykroyd to Jane Curtin in their weekly running comedy sketch on NBC. Somewhere rushing around in my brain is a similar phrase I’d like to use with Lorne Michaels, the creator and executive producer of the four-decades-long SNL late-night comedy show. […]

Pasco’s local newspaper published video from yesterday’s Justice for Antonio Zambrano-Montes Anti-Police Brutality Rally and March. The Zambrano-Montes case has already gained national and international attention. Last night, NBC News ran a segment on its newscast. Outlets such as The Guardian and CNN also covered yesterday’s march. Tonight, Latino Rebels Radio will talk with Pasco […]

GENEVA—“Let us stand for a minute of silence,” Emmanuel Decaux, chairperson of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED), told those gathered on February 2 in this Swiss city to discuss the grave problem of involuntary disappearances in Mexico. A high-level government delegation and a sizeable civil society contingent traveled from Mexico to attend the […]

This just in from our friends at Latino USA on NPR.

I am one of hundreds of East Harlem artists denied housing at Artspace PS109. The Promise In the summer of 2014, 53,000+ people applied to live in 89 affordable apartments at Artspace PS109. This has become an all too common scene in New York City’s housing market. Decades of public subsidies and assistance for luxury development in NYC […]

Two years ago, Puerto Rico’s Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi, a non-voting member of the U.S. Congress and the leader of the island’s pro-statehood party, submitted the Puerto Rico Status Resolution Act to the House of Representatives, with the hope that his fellow voting members would act on resolving Puerto Rico’s political status. A Senate version […]

We could school Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks (R) about what he said this morning on talk radio, but Think Progress already did. But, hey, you HAVE to blame someone. Listen. All together now.

While the Mexican press was covering and tweeting about a resolution on Mexico by California state senator Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) that passed unanimously yesterday in Sacramento, we checked to see if any United States press outlets even gave Lara’s resolution a mention. That would be a no. Senador latino Ricardo Lara sube resolución a […]

It’s hard to follow in the awesomeness that is Adrian Carrasquillo’s magnum opus today: The Fight For Pitbull’s Political Soul. Rife with spot-on quotes, Carrasquillo gives a seemingly vapid subject the political scrutiny it deserves, as well as perhaps one of the greatest statements ever from Mr. 305 himself: I’m not here to be part of […]

When the White House recently announced it was entering into a period of détente with Havana, I had just finished Fidel’s 2007 autobiography. I remember putting the book down and wondering when Cuba was going to release Alan Gross, a contractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development. Washington still maintains Gross was never a spy but was […]

I will confess, I am a bit behind and still reeling in from the travesuras in Iowa. By now, many of you have read up about how Governor Rick Perry was interrupted during his speech at Steve King’s Freedom Summit. However, despite the success of our action and our continued commitment to hold all politicians […]

Here at Latino Rebels we like to cover the serious issues, and what can be more serious than Puerto Rican politics becoming part of the 2015 Miss Universe contest, which ended last Sunday. During preliminary evers before the primetime show, Miss Puerto Rico was asked whether she thought the U.S. colony (sorry, territory) should become […]

Why is Rick Santorum back? Time to blame the immigrants! They’re taking our jobs! We’re all losing money all because of all these immigrants! (This was disproven before.) Here we go again. This was Santorum on CNN yesterday. Quick thing: didn’t Santorum’s own flipping family arrive in the United States in that previous “great wave” […]

With all the noise surrounding the RNC and Univision, R.J. Aguiar shares his thoughts on the newest “Rebel Report.” Watch.

Yesterday, a federal judge in Brownsville, Texas, heard arguments from 25 states and the federal government on whether to block President Obama’s executive order on immigration. Here’s what you need to know about Texas v. United States, the name the case has been assigned: 1) This is only the beginning of the lawsuit The case […]

You’d be hard-pressed to argue against the famous maxim which states that “all politics is local.” The average citizen is less interested in what’s occurring at the national level than what’s occurring in their city, and likewise less interested about what’s happening in their city than what’s happening in their neighborhood, and so on. For […]

Social Security Totalization sounds bad, perhaps angry even, as though Arnold Schwarzenegger will go back in time to destroy a computer that records how much we will each earn when we are old and wrinkly. But it is actually a very appealing concept. In short, Social Security Totalization is a set of agreements between nations […]

Enrique Peña Nieto is president of a North American country whose police officers have become the targets of public outcry for their role in the awful deaths of guiltless people. No, he isn’t president of the United States, of course. Yet critics seem to believe President Obama possesses even the narrowest sliver of ground from which condemn his […]