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UPDATE: Holthus apologized for his comments today on Twitter, when we asked him about the story. @latinorebels please I DO apologize! I meant no racial slur at all I have the UTMOST respect for Angel as a student-athlete! — Mitch Holthus (@mitchholthus) December 23, 2012 Yesterday ESPN announcer (and voice of the Kansas City Chiefs) […]

Publisher’s Note: I thought long and hard about giving CNN contributor Ruben Navarrette more attention on this page, since quite frankly, I have grown tired of his boorish social media behavior and the content of his columns. But maybe that is part of his master plan: to use his platform to become the Latino Rush […]

When approached today by reporters at an event in Puerto Rico, WAPA-TV president Joe Ramos addressed the recent controversy surrounding “SuperXclusivo,” his network’s top-rated show, and La Comay, the show’s puppet host played by actor Kobbo Santarrosa. Ramos, who will not comment to this outlet after several interview requests were made through WAPA’s established procedures, […]

¿Qué qué? What? In one of the most culturally ignorant stories we have seen this week (h/t to @joeltana, a story out of Cooper City, FL chronicles how “a volunteer soccer coach for a city-sponsored youth league was ejected from a game after two referees ordered him to stop giving instructions in Spanish to several […]

You would think that Puerto Rico’s WAPA-TV would try to avoid even more controversy as it looks for a way to resolve the BoicotLaComay mess. Apparently, according to Otro20Pesos.com, WAPA now has another problem on its hand. Tonight the blog reported that Puerto Rico hip hop star Lisa M was kicked out of the network […]

Today and yesterday’s Latino News Roundup from HispanicTips: December 20th: Miss Venezuela Say Whaaa?      From: music.remezcla.com Latinas with Associates Degrees: 4 steps to a higher salary career      From: latinalista.com As Federal Immigration Overhaul Looms, California Schools Slash Adult English Classes      From: www.pewstates.org Dreamers Sue To Stop Michigan From Denying Driver’s Licenses      From: www.huffingtonpost.com Jenni Rivera […]

Today HuffPost Live (video here) discussed the recent developments surrounding the “SuperXclusivo” controversy and boycott movement against Puerto Rico’s top-rated show and its puppet host, La Comay. The segment covered a lot of issues including the story the Rebels broke yesterday and later reported by our founder for NBC Latino about homophonic emails sent by the show. […]

Forget it. We can’t save you on this one, Miss Venezuela. Here’s our advice. Next time, give your answer in Spanish. It’s cool. Because we really have no clue what you said, and all this does is perpetuate the ugly Latina bimbo stereotype that will just make a mockery of you now. Let the Internet […]

UPDATE, 9:00 PM EST: WAPA confirmed earlier today that the emails were authentic. They also issued a statement that can be read here. Yesterday we received the following email communication from someone who submitted a initial comment to WAPA-TV’s “SuperXClusivo” show.  The thread contains a very strange defense of the show that we felt is […]

  This December 21 we plan to just not be online, because it is getting ridiculous already. Before we continue with this post, we just need to say the following, and say it kind of loudly: the world is not coming to an end this Friday. But that isn’t stopping brands from contaminating this message […]

Is #BoicotLaComay working? Earlier today, Glenn Santana, the TV reporter for Puerto Rico’s Primera Hora, tweeted the latest television ratings for the 6pm-7pm slot:   Looks like “SuperXclusivo” and La Comay just got some more bad news, besides dramatic losses in ad revenues. Santana’s information contradicts yesterday’s claim from WAPA TV that the show’s ratings […]

Today’s Latino News Roundup from HispanicTips: ¡ASK A MEXICAN! On family relationships, intermarriage and flying back to the motherland for Christmas      From: www.montereycountyweekly.com 2012′s Best Moments In Latino Sports      From: music.remezcla.com Video: Photographer chronicles destructive impact of border wall on Southwest’s rare ecosystems, wildlife and people      From: latinalista.com A new report from the FBI shows […]

  We guess this is what happens when you get calls from The New York Times. In yesterday’s Times, Joe Ramos, President of Puerto Rico’s WAPA-TV and WAPA América, admitted that he had considered canceling the “SuperXclusivo” show with puppet host La Comay in response to a very public boycott that has led to major brands […]

  Today’s Latino News Roundup from HispanicTips: A falling population presents a growing range of challenges for Puerto Rico and is now raising red flags on Wall Street regarding the island’s economic and fiscal future.      From: www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com Guillermo del Toro: The Busiest Latino in Show Bidness?      From: www.sefijaonline.com Gringos speaking Spanish badly; what does it […]

  The recent boycott against WAPA-TV’s “SuperXclusivo” and the controversy surrounding Puerto Rico’s top-rated show made the December 16 edition of The New York Times, and the Times story confirmed that WAPA’s president has considered canceling the show. After summarizing the events surrounding the origins of the boycott and the death of pubicist José Enrique […]

    Today the Editorial section of The Boston Globe (the section offering the newspaper’s collective opinion voice), published a piece called “Jenni Rivera: Crossing over.” Normally, you don’t see Mexican American stars inside the pages the Globe, so of course we had to read it. Too bad we did, because quite frankly, the Globe’s opinion […]

  Here is the Latino News Roundup for December 14, 2012, curated by HispanicTips.com: Migrant Farm Workers’ Advocates File U.N. Complaint      From: www.huffingtonpost.com Arizona Sheriff Arpaio Loses Bid to Dismiss U.S. Bias Lawsuit      From: www.businessweek.com ‘Portlandia’ Star Fred Armisen on His Mother’s “Spanish Accent,” His Latin Roots {he is half-Venezuelan} and more      From: www.latina.com Alt.Latino: […]

  It was bound to happen, because in Puerto Rico, whenever there is an up, there is always a down. Right after the #BoicotLaComay Facebook page was formed to protest WAPA’s “SuperXclusivo” show and comments made about the brutal death of publicist José Enrique Gómez, a page to support the top-rated show formed. As of […]

After running a story this morning about The Daily Show not mentioning the current boycott of WAPA-TV’s “SuperXclusivo” program (the top-rated show in Puerto Rico) during a segment with Wyatt Cenac, we reached out to Comedy Central for comment. We requested to see if someone would speak to the segment, which shows Cenac interviewing La […]

By now most of us are aware that Jenni Rivera passed away recently. The topic of her untimely death is all over the social media outlets and it has been covered by most major news media publications.  Here’s the thing though: I never heard of her until this happened, and I didn’t know a thing about her until […]

Last night on The Daily Show, correspondent Wyatt Cenac filed his last report ever with a segment from Puerto Rico about WAPA-TV’s “SuperXclusivo” show, which has recently faced a very public boycott after the show’s puppet host, La Comay, made comments about dead publicist Jose Enrique Gómez. Advertisers continue to pull out from the show, […]