Politics

Take a moment and read what the “other side” had to say about this weekend’s #2Million2Many demonstrations. The following email comes from a group called “Help Save Maryland.” It is a real email, which we did not edit. We decided to add our response to this letter first before we ran it. Here is our […]

¡PENDEJO ALERT! Let the fear-mongering begin. The following “news” (cue dramatic music) by faux outlet Breitbart has American’s Favorite Pendejo, Rep. Steve King of Iowa (R), talking ignorance. Again. Here is the “shocking” video: Here is what King told Breitbart (we emphasized the big nugget for you): If we’re going to put out the bait, […]

Last night Puerto Rico’s El Nuevo Día followed up on an NBC News story sharing that Ft. Hood shooter Iván López was from Guayanilla, Puerto Rico. The END spoke with sources who said that López, an Iraq veteran, went to Asunción Rodríguez de Sala school in Guayanilla, was part the school band and was also […]

The March 31 open enrollment deadline for the Affordable Health Care Act (ACT), also known as Obamacare, is fast approaching and the Twitter profile of CuidadoDeSalud.gov is making a final push for signups with what is one perplexing ad campaign. Here are just some of the tweets: “3: the # of picante bottles you have […]

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On March 24, 1976 in Argentina, a military dictatorship took over. Today Argentines remember the ghosts of the disappeared and still try to make sense of it all. Hashtags such as #NuncaMás (Never Again) and #DiaDeLaMemoria have been trending on Twitter to knowledge those who disappeared 38 years ago. Today in Argentina, we remember thousands who ‘disappeared’ during […]

Reading the reports of Michelle Bachelet’s inauguration in Chile on March 11 and watching the videos, I couldn’t help but hear former president Salvador Allende’s words reverberating: The seed which we have planted in the good conscience of thousands and thousands of Chileans will not be shriveled forever. They have strength and will be able […]

Two videos, two different views. Here is one video. Here is another. So what is the truth in Venezuela? It is increasingly getting harder to tell.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Latino Rebels contributor Roberto Lovato visited Venezuela last week and wrote the following opinion piece. As of this morning, according to reports, the death toll resulting from the protests in Venezuela is at 25. The most recent violent events have occurred in San Cristóbal, near the Venezuela/Colombia border. CARACAS—Reports and imagery coming out […]

Yesterday marked the 97th anniversary of the Jones-Shafroth Act by Pres. Woodrow Wilson, declaring “that the citizens of Porto Rico” were from then on “citizens of the United States.” It seems some leaders of the free world don’t know the definition of citizenship. Before the act was signed in 1917, the people of “Porto Rico” […]

Yesterday HuffPost Live dedicated a segment to Puerto Rico’s latest economic woes. The beginning was a bit financially wonky but Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi joined the discussion. We have to give credit Pierluisi for this discussion since he rarely brought up statehood and looked at the status question from a more rational perspective. Here are […]

Five days after Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro charged him with a list of things —“conspiring to commit a crime, arson of a public building, instigating a crime, severe injury, public intimidation, damage to public property, terrorism and homicide”— Leopoldo López emerged from hiding last Tuesday to lead thousands of anti-government protesters through the Chacaíto neighborhood in […]

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Leave it to Rubén Blades to offer a graceful response to the ongoing situation in Venezuela. While other celebrities like Cher (yes, Cher) and Willie Colón (irony) are waxing extreme about the news from Caracas, Blades’ piece, originally written in Spanish, explores the crisis’ nuances and complexities. You can read the entire Spanish post here. […]

You got to hand it to the folks over at TIME. They sure know how to put together an attention-grabbing cover. In 2012 they created a buzz when they put a bunch of Latinos (and one half-white, half-Chinese guy) on the cover with the words “Yo decido,” suggesting that Latinos would decide that year’s presidential […]

Puerto Rico is usually thought of as a tourism destination or is usually invisible in the U.S. media. In recent times, its fiscal and economic crisis has led to inaccurate comparisons with Detroit or Greece whose fiscal crisis have attracted much media attention. As usual, the mainstream press looks at the illness without looking at […]

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In response to a query about a new Puerto Rican statehood bill being introduced to the U.S. Senate, the office of New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich (D) shared the following release: In Historic Step, Admission Bill is Introduced in U.S. Senate Bill is identical to H.R. 2000 filed by Pierluisi Washington, DC—Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi announced that […]