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What an amazing World Cup so far for the CONCACAF teams. We could not have asked for a better movie script. If this had been a pitch for a movie in Hollywood, the producer might have laughed to death. Of course, the movie would have very likely starred Mexican goalkeeper Memo Ochoa. Ladies and gentlemen, […]

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 […]

Yesterday a headline for Newsweek story about the current crisis on the US-Mexico border made us do a double-take and insert a WTF: “Honduras’ First Lady Says She Will Collect Her Country’s Child Border-Crashers.” We would expect such a headline from a Town Hall or a Breitbart, but this is Newsweek. Has the quality of one of […]

When a coup removed the democratically-elected leftist president of Honduras in June 2009, receiving tacit support from the U.S. State Department, the American people barely took notice. Then when the United States increased military funding in its little protectorate to reinforce the new right-wing regime installed there, the American public still remained largely unaware and unconcerned. […]

Leave it to the Internet. Just hours after Mexican goalkeeper Guillermo “Memo” Ochoa thrilled the world with a legendary performance in a 0-0 draw against Brazil, there was already a corrido about him. (Oh yeah, besides the obligatory Memo memes.) Give it up to Los Tres Tristes Tigres and their latest viral video. For those […]

The good news is that Scott Fistler, the former Republican who legally changed his name to César Chávez and then entered his name in an Arizona congressional Democratic primary, was kicked off the ballot yesterday. The sad news is that he is a true pendejo. Watch this from yesterday.

Commissioned by NALIP, the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER) at Columbia University, The Latino Media Gap is now available. The report’s conclusion states: In sum, for Latinos, the current landscape presents exciting new possibilities alongside old challenges. After analyzing Latino talent diversity in […]

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 […]

The Proyecto Más Color campaign is using an online petition and social media “to promote the awareness of the lack of representation of Afro-Latinos and other minority groups in Latin American media.” The following video explains more about the project: As the Proyecto Más Color organizers say on their petition site: This is important because […]

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 […]

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You know SOMEONE would talk about the guy named César Chávez who’s running for Congress out of Arizona, and that someone was Colbert: The Colbert Report Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Colbert Report on Facebook

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 […]

So it’s official. Ted Cruz has renounced his Canadian citizenship. He even has a letter (in English and in French) to prove it.   We wonder if Cruz will also renounce the fact that his dad bribed his way into the United States from Cuba. Nonetheless, back to crapping on immigrants.

File this one under “Colonialism is Still Colonialism.” A new social media page calling for Puerto Rico’s return to Spain has gotten media attention on the island, the U.S. and of course, Spain. And guess what? The organizers are serious about it. A Facebook page is calling (in Spanish) for the “Reunification of Puerto Rico […]

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 […]

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