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On August 12, the Caravan for Peace was launched on the Tijuana-San Diego border and it has now begun a cross-country journey across 25 cities, from Los Angeles to Washington DC. Organized by Global Exchange and Mexico’s Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity (MPJD), the caravan is bringing the realities and tragedies of the Mexican […]

This is why we love our friends at Hispanic Tips, the best and most comprehensive Latino news curation site on the Internet today. Tonight Tomás Custer, the owner of Hispanic Tips and one of the nicest and most hard-working guys we know (he's been doing HT for years, way before it was "hip" to be […]

Let's forget for just a few moments the smugness and self-promotional arrogance of CNN contributor Ruben Navarrette, Jr., who continues to provide his own congratulatory play-by-play updates on his public Facebook site about a column that in the end called into question the patriotism and accomplishments of American medalist Leo Manzano. We have already responded […]

A few weeks ago the Los Angeles Times reported a story that explored Mitt Romney's efforts to fund Bain Capital and how some of the company's initial investors were from families who had tied to El Salvador's Dirty War and its death squads. The news opened a wound with many Salvadoran Americans who were displaced […]

We thought long and hard about what Ruben Navarrette Jr. had to say on CNN.com today (for a very lively discussion about what our community is saying, visit here). Our first thought was to have our jefe write an open letter, since he is one crazy Puerto Rican who is known to root for the […]

We got the following video from @FunnyLatino today on our Facebook wall and we are glad we did. Román Suárez is a Bronx-born comic/actor/writer. He is one of the countless of talented individuals who have connected with our online communities. Suárez offered this video response to the New York Times piece called "Networks Struggle to Appeal […]

Samuel Bazawule, also known as Blitz the Ambassador was born in culturally rich Accra, Ghana in 1982. His first music memory was at the age of eight, as he walked past a football field where a Highlife cover band was performing. Blitz was mesmerized and says, “I was amazed that these sounds could be coming […]

Leave it to pro-statehood and GOP darling Luis Fortuño to conveniently stop being a pro-US-statehooder during the London Olympics. The last few days, Fortuño, who is facing a tough re-election this November, has suddenly become one proud boricua during Puerto Rico’s Olympic efforts. Never mind the fact that as someone who fervently supports Puerto Rico […]

After we published the following image on Saturday, we sent out a tweet to the Indonesian ad agency that produced the image for clarification. Instead of getting a public response, this morning we received two direct messages from the agency's Twitter account: In the interest of following up and asking if we can share this […]

You're kidding us, right? We got the following image form @RayoSaucedo today on Twitter. Here it is: From what we can tell, the image is trying to sell Darktarin Foot Powder. So what better way to do this than put a "sleeping Mexican" in the middle of the scene and have everyone else cover their faces. […]

Granted, Lola's Burrito Joint in Jacksonville has since changed the name of its original 'Wetback Willie" to "Wet Willie" after receiving criticism from customers on Facebook for the original name. Local news did a piece about Lola's this week, and the piece has gone around the Internet, appearing on several outlets such as HuffPost. It […]

Last night, after facing several days of controversy surrounding racist (and bitherism) tweets she made about President Obama, Heidi Wys Toro, a top adviser (and Chief of Staff) to Jenniffer González, Puerto Rico's Speaker of the House, tweeted out several apologies, deleted the tweets that got her into trouble in the first place, and then […]

As her adviser (and Chief of Staff) continues to face a controversy for racist tweets she made about President Obama, Puerto Rico's Speaker of the House Jenniffer González issued a statement suggesting that comments such as the ones Heidi Wys Toro's made were "unacceptable." The statement does not specifically call out Wys Toro for the […]

Update: Wys Toro finally offered apologies on August 2 for these tweets, and her account is now private on Twitter. They say that politics in Puerto Rico can be a bit like kindergarten. As much as the island's politicians aspire to a higher standard, they are just not ready for the big time. When politicians […]

On July 27, during #OcupaTelevisa and around the time the broadcast of the opening ceremonies of the Olympics was being televised in Mexico, the official Twitter account of Televisa's news division was hacked and a tweet calling Enrique Peña Nieto, Mexico's President-elect, a "pendejo" was published. Here is the screen capture: The tweet was publicly visible […]

UPDATE: The Televisa news feed account went back up live around 5:00 PM EST on July 28. The hacked tweet was removed. Talk about taking a protest to Twitter. Yesterday, the official Twitter account of Televisa's news division, Noticieros Televisa, was allegedly hacked around 3pm EST during the start of the Olympics's opening ceremonies, according […]

The last few days, the #YoSoy132 movement and others in Mexico protested the studios of Televisa, one of the country's largest media companies. The protest has caught the attention of the mainstream media, including the New York Times, which posted a new story about an hour ago tonight. Here is an excerpt from that story: […]

Last night, Latino Rebels was the first English-language outlet to report the "oops moment" by Univision, which had broadcast a July 25 video wishing Puerto Rico a Happy Independence Day on what is Constitution Day to some (the 60th anniversary of Puerto Rico's Commonwealth government) and Occupation Day (when US troops invaded the island in […]

Maybe some of Univision's affiliates need a little history lesson about Puerto Rico. Today, July 25, Puerto Rico celebrates Constitution Day, the day that commemorates Puerto Rico's Commonwealth (some would say "Colonial") relationship with the United States. Puerto Rico's Commonwealth government was established 60 years ago in 1952, and for those that really need to […]

This is pretty simple. If you are going to start providing manuals and instructions to your Spanish-speaking customers, get a human editor. It Is amazing what would happen if you just had someone who knows the nuances of Spanish actually review your copy before you print your materials. It isn't the end of the world, […]

Another Sunday, another march in Mexico to protest the alleged fraud during the July 1 presidential elections. Yesterday’s marches were captured via social media, with unconfirmed images being posted and shared (like this one below, which we are sure is from 2006) throughout the day. Here is a Storify of pics taken from Twitter and […]