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Recently, Latino Rebels founder @julito77 ;wrote a very thought-provoking post called ;The Perils of “Latino” Marketing: Lessons Learned from the “Los IceHogs” Hockey Night. It wasn’t clear to some people why trying to appeal to the Hispanic community with a promotional poster of maracas, Corona, and Dora the Explorer can be problematic. So Julito explained […]

Earlier today, the Facebook page of the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts shared a public update about the Kennedy Canter and its dismal history of overlooking Latino for the Kennedy Center Honors awards (only 2 in just 35 years). Apparently the issue is now on the radar screen of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus: KenCen Update: […]

Xánath Caraza’s “Conjuro” is a textural salsa of clashing and dazzling cultures, languages, histories and ancestral memories assembled in poems organized as bilingual pairings, mainly in English/Spanish, yet also with embellishments of Nahuatl and other non-European tongues that lend her painting-like compositions a dimension all their own, invoking themes of diaspora, sensuality, the subconscious, nativism, […]

File this one under the "unfortunate" files. As reported by the local Brownsville press, a school sign about the Thanksgiving holiday has gone viral on Facebook and it is eliciting responses that range from the humorous to the ugly. According to reports, officials at Cummings Middle School confirmed that the sign was real and that […]

Today on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, Illinois Congressman Luis Guitiérrez wanted to introduce the Republican Party to U.S. Latinos. Again. As his YouTube channel says: Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL) took to the floor of the House of Representatives to introduce the Republican Party to Latinos as a way of underscoring the […]

Before you jump to conclusions—which some people associated with the "Los IceHogs" November 16 event being promoted by the American Hockey League's Rockford IceHogs said I had done already—my NBC Latino piece about the event did not say that the people behind the now Internet-famous IceHog in a sombrero with garish jersey accompanied by Corona maracas […]

Editor's Note: We are proud to call Tony Diaz, the Librotraficante, a key member of the Latino Rebels familia. I was recently knighted. I didn’t fully understand what was happening at the time as I flew to New York. But I did know that we were making history. All around the nation Librotraficantes convened, on […]

Guess Bryan Fischer didn't get the memo about last week's election and why the GOP is hurting in its quest to gain more favor from U.S. Latino voters. Just watch this. Seriously, just watch it. It is only about 1 minute long, and we say #NoMames. Hey, Bryan Fischer, you know why you have no […]

San José del Progreso, Oaxaca – In a small, dry town in the south-west of Oaxaca, Mexico there is a deadly political battle being waged over local resources. By all accounts the town has been split in two—those in favor of and those who oppose the Cuzcatlán silver mine that started operations in the vicinity in […]

The current wave in marketing has agencies everywhere telling brands that if you don't go "Latino," you will miss out on the NEXT BIG THING. So in a world where agencies are looking for business and brands are now ready to spend on the "Latinization" of their offerings, it is getting messy out there. Add […]

Something is up in Maricopa County, home to Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Author Jeff Biggers writes the following in a HuffPost piece: "As an unprecedented number of cases emerge around registration problems, dubious provisional ballot measures and still uncounted early ballots, especially in heavy Latino-voting neighborhoods, citizens groups in Maricopa County and around the state are […]

Yesterday we posted about the new "Latino" jersey premiering for the AHL's Rockford IceHogs on November 16, and besides one person on our site who respectfully disagreed, the majority of our Facebook and Twitter communities thought the #NoMames for a "Los IceHogs Night" was well-deserved. Apparently, the IceHogs got the blessing of Rockford's local coalition of […]

Talk about bizarre. The following video from Taiwan's Next Media Animation TV tries to tell the latest about Puerto Rico's status vote through the use of animation and dancing girls. Guess it is getting people's attention. So far the video has received over 80,000 views since it was uploaded on November 8.

Ugh. Deadspin reported that the Rockford IceHogs, the American Hockey League affiliate of the Chicago Blackhawks, will be holding a Los IceHogs Night on November 16 in "celebration" of Hispanic Heritage Weekend. Besides wearing some of the most awful and racist jerseys ever, fans will also be getting the jerseys, free maracas, and there will […]

We know that The Daily Bleach is a satire site. Think of it like a dumb person's The Onion. The Bleach is known for skewering anyone. However, unlike The Onion—whose brand clearly screams satire and comedy—the Bleach is on a slippery slope and is unethical. It does very little to clearly disclose that all that […]

Are you kidding us, TMZ? Are you f-ing kidding us? Here is what passes for TMZ's take on Puerto Rico's latest plebiscite results. Dear Harvey Levin, you have no damn clue about Puerto Rico, about its people, or about its history with the United States. If you have real cojones (which you don't), you would […]

This week, the issue of statehood for Puerto Rico, the world's oldest colony, has become a topic of mainstream media interest and other online outlets. Granted, many of these outlets have no clue the complexities of this issue (read our jefe's analysis instead), and all you need to do is read Gil the Genius' latest […]

Today, the video section of Noticiero Univision posted a report with a headline that read "Members of the Klu Klux Klan Celebrate Arpaio's Victory." As we watched the video, the reporter kept saying that the members allegedly were part of the KKK and never really reported that they were actually members. Throughout the video we […]

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AT JULIORVARELA.COM Last night the island of Puerto Rico experienced a historic election. Not only did Puerto Ricans go to the polls to vote for Governor, Resident Commissioner, and other legislative positions, they also voted in yet another non-binding plebiscite that tried to determine whether Puerto Ricans favored its current commonwealth relationship with […]

Marc Anthony and his handlers are a bit upset this morning at Puerto Rico's pro-statehood New Progressive Party (PNP) for using an Anthony video that shows the 44-year-old music superstar endorsing PNP leader and incumbent governor Luis Fortuño. Here is the video taken from a PNP election rally for Fortuño, who is facing a tough […]

This Election Day Minnesotans will vote on Amendment 2, also known as the Voter ID law. You can read up as to the many reasons why a NO vote is the way to go or you can just recall one YES group's racist images in the early days of the campaign. No matter, you should watch the following […]