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The Obama-led Democratic party is playing a game of chicken with the GOP, and the real losers will be us people of color yet again. With a few legislative days left before Democratic-majority Senate leaves for the holiday break and will be transformed into a Republican-majority Senate in January 2015, Democratic Leader Harry Reid will […]

In case you missed it. By the way, the #ImmigrationAction hashtag was the top U.S. trend on Twitter tonight.

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For the Latinos who voted for Barack Obama in 2008, believing he would alleviate the suffering caused by a broken immigration system (they re-elected him in 2012 for the same reason) tonight’s expected announcement of an executive order shielding millions of immigrant families from deportation is too little, too late. Immigrants and their advocates had expected […]

It’s not that the United States isn’t paying attention to the tragedy unfolding in Mexico, it’s that we’re only interested in one narrative—the narco narrative. We like narcos in our movies and in our headlines. We like them in Mexico, where they belong, with their outlandish nicknames, their pet tigers and their armored cars. We […]

This past Monday, our group tweeted the news about #USTired2, a new grassroots movement created by organizers to promote a series of December 3 in 43 U.S. cities for the 43 missing Ayotzinapa students. That tweet made the rounds, with over 300RTs in just a few days: 43 US Cities for 43 #Ayotzinapa students. New […]

Last night on the floor of the Senate, Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu gave her final pitch to get the Keystone XL passed. The embattled Democratic senator is trying really hard to make sure she is re-elected, but her efforts to get Keystone through the Senate failed. During her speech, the Democrat (yes, Democrat) said this. Hooray! […]

This video from YaMeCansé dropped yesterday. (h/t @Revolución3_0)

In case you missed it, since there was little to no coverage at all in mainstream U.S. media, here is a video of a November 15 solidarity protest in downtown San Francisco for #Ayotzinapa: One of our own Rebeldes was on the ground in San Francisco taking pictures from the scene: Another one from @minsd […]

Created as a tribute to Mexico’s #YaMeCansé global movement, a #USTired2 mobilization calling for peace in Mexico launched this morning, campaign organizers told Latino Rebels. The group has identified December 3, 2014 as the day of demonstrations and rallies in at least 43 US cities to represent the 43 Ayotzinapa students. Organizers said that their focus will be […]

Just watch. An video from earlier this November, before recent developments.

Here is what Democracy Now! covered earlier today: This is the one angle the U.S. media should be exploring more. Kudos to our friends at Democracy Now! for shedding a light on it.

The apparent massacre of students from Ayotzinapa in Iguala has completely shocked the Mexican public and provoked outrage across the globe. Some have called this a game changer for Mexico. In some ways it clearly is, but maybe not in the ways we imagine. The case of Ciudad Juárez The brutal massacre at Iguala is far from […]

There is one nation the U.S. government fears more than any other. It’s controlled by a single party, the Communist Party, that has established a dictatorship (not of proletarians, but of bureaucrats) after defeating a U.S.-backed tyrant with the help of countryside peasants over half a century ago. Its relations with the United States have been […]

The land of Zapata has once again become a beacon of hope in the middle of the arid desert of corruption which today controls politics as usual in Washington, Mexico City, Ottawa and beyond. While Mexico’s President, Enrique Peña Nieto, is busy negotiating deals with international investors and rubbing elbows with world leaders this week […]

Earlier today we got a few tweets from @joeltana (who quite frankly is one of our favorite Twitter followers because he is incredibly smart and oh yeah, a very nice person, too.) Here were the tweets: .@latinorebels homies, Oakland had a solidarity event for Ayotzinapa last night. Pics https://t.co/rpx3HcIw0j video https://t.co/msY4cYa0Cg — Joel Tena (@joeltena) […]

Last week was a big one in our industry. Oregon, Alaska and Washington DC all voted to legalize marijuana. Among all the other political news that occurred this past Tuesday —whether it was Democratic or Republican— the fact that these two states and our nation’s capital made this plant legal signals some very big changes. 2016 will […]

This weekend, while we were all finding out more about what is happening now in Mexico, Rebel Report’s R.J. Aguiar shares his take in our latest episode on Flama. Connect the dots, people. Mexico matters, and R.J. explains why: Post by Flama.

Editor’s Note: We received the following essay last night from political activist Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera, originally from Mexico City and currently studying in the United States. The images featured are courtesy of MásDe131, a site that covers Mexico’s protest movement. Submitted to LatinoRebels.com by Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez. Comparto artículo que escribí para @latinorebels sobre Ayotzinapa y la […]

This morning, Jesús Murillo Karam, Mexico’s attorney general, is not expressing any regret for the “Ya me cansé” (“I am so tired of this”) comment he made last Friday at the end of a press conference where he said that three members of the Guerreros Unidos gang admitted to burning the bodies of the 43 missing Ayoztinapa […]

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