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Tonight the Assistant Scoutmaster for Troop 11 in Milwaukee, Ryan Antczak, responded to our questions regarding an unauthorized Boy Scout patch depicting the iconic "immigrants fleeing" road sign image, which to has become a symbol of anti-immigrant scorn and hatred for many US Latinos. First, Antczak was wanted to let us know that he does not […]

UPDATE: The Troop met with other members of the Milwaukee community this past Monday and the outcome was very positive on all sides. What began as an email to the Boy Scouts of America about a questionable patch depicting the iconic "fleeing immigrants" image that has become a national symbol of anti-Latino hate has turned […]

This image from Cuba this past week showed an unidentified man who shouted, "Down with Communism!" during the Pope's mass in Santiago, Cuba. The man was quickly taken away from Cuban authorities, leaving questions as to his whereabouts and what happened to him. According to the following YouTube broadcast from Háblalo Sin Miedo, the man […]

Over the past few weeks, we have read A LOT about the fact that George Zimmerman is not “white” but that he is “Hispanic” (even though when initial media reports of his February 26 shooting of Trayvon Martin called him “white”). It started when Zimmerman’s father, Bob Zimmerman, shared this information in a letter to the […]

The following image was shared by a member of our Facebook community today and it got us to do a little digging and find out what happened in Havana during the Pope's visit on Monday. We went straight to Twitter to see what some Cuban profiles were saying and @yoanisanchez tweeted the following on Tuesday. […]

This month the National Association of Hispanic Journalists began to promote its April 21 regional conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The event, entitled "Covering the New Southwest: Storytelling in the Heart of La Tierra," is scheduled to cover "journalism, news gathering, writing and hot topics" in the Southwest. What should have been an informative session has […]

On Monday we received the following image from our Twitter feed, and we were told that the patch was used by Boy Scouts from Milwaukee's Troop 11: We contacted the Boy Scouts of America and received the following emails from the Boy Scouts national leadership. Here is the first email: The National Council, Boy Scouts […]

47 pages. The city of Sanford, FL released George Zimmerman's 911 call history and it's 47 pages long. You can download the PDF here. Zimmerman has been making 911 calls since 2004.  

This morning I was sent a link which caused me to question the professionalism and motives of the New Jersey State Police. Myfoxphilly.com released photos from 2009 of state troopers holding a Puerto Rican flag and sitting behind drugs seized in a raid in Camden, New Jersey.  Camden Latino activist Angel Cordero is outraged and stated: "You are saying […]

This morning, after a parody account called @GoddamnDora started to make fun of the popular Nick Jr show, Dora The Explorer, the official Twitter account of the Dora show fought back this morning on Twitter, asking profiles to report the parody account and block the profile. The original tweets and story about this Twitter War of […]

Esquire magazine is not a publication I read but it was brought to my attention because everyone was making a fuss over how beautiful Sofia Vergara looked on its new cover. Yes, she is a gorgeous Colombian actress who would look amazing on the cover of any magazine. Then as I began reading an excerpt […]

Yowza. Sofía Vergara, the Colombian-born actor known as La Toti, made the cover of Esquire and let's just say that La Toti, who is 40 years old, has IT. The "Modern Family" star also weighed on her life and being Latina. The entire interview can be read here. We pulled out some of the more […]

Today the University of Southern Mississippi published the following article on their site in response to the "Where's Your Green Card?" chants directed at Kansas State's Ángel Rodríguez during the first round of the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship. University Takes Disciplinary Action Against Pep Band Students The University of Southern Mississippi has completed a review […]

On Palm Sunday, March 21, 1937, The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party peacefully marched to recognize the ending of slavery by the governing Spanish National Assembly in 1873 and in protest of the imprisonment of Nationalist leader Pedro Albizu Campos by the U.S. government in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Days before the peaceful march, organizers received legal permits by the mayor of Ponce José […]

Immigration hypocrisy is becoming the standard for US politicians. Take the case of Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown (R), who is facing a tough re-election bid this year. Brown, who became the Bay State's senator in a special election after the death of Ted Kennedy, went on record in late 2010 and opposed The DREAM Act, […]

I experienced a cultural epiphany a couple of weeks ago that has been bothering me increasingly since. I spend my days working as a project manager for a regional bank in the Midwest; the same type of work I’ve been performing over the past 15+ years on both sides of the Atlantic. Communicating, both personally and professionally in […]

This morning GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum made an appearance on "ABC This Week." Besides saying that his opponent Mitt Romney is more like President Obama than other GOP candidates and that he accepts an one-to-one debate with the former Massachusetts governor, Santorum tried to explain his position again about English Only mandates. In our […]

Maybe the governor of Puerto Rico finally realized that he should take control of his official Facebook page and not let his admins run the page for him. Today, as Puerto Ricans go to the polls for the GOP presidential primary, Fortuño has been posting status updates on his site, urging his fans to go […]

Today, the Librotraficantes have reached their destination: Tucson, Arizona. The Librotraficantes appeared this morning on local Tucson TV. Here is the recording we made for news gathering purposes since the local TV station doesn't have an embed feature. "The whole idea is that Arizona legislators tried to erase our history, we've decided to create more […]

Today, CNN reported that Kansas State guard Ángel Rodríguez, a Puerto-Rican born American citizen, has accepted the apology from Southern Mississippi's president regarding the "Where's your green card?" chants directed at him yesterday in the first round of the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship. "I heard it. I don't pay attention to that nonsense, especially because […]

Two days before the GOP Primary will be held in Puerto Rico, Mitt Romney and his campaign have released an Open Letter to the People of Puerto Rico. We are running the open letter in both English and Spanish, since it is an open letter. English version comes from TIME and Spanish version comes from EL […]