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El Gran Combo Says It Didn’t Authorize Trump Campaign to Use Band’s Music in Goya Foods Boycott Debate

“We have not authorized the use of that video. El Gran Combo never mixes politics and music, and we never have supported any party or candidate,” pianist and manager Willie Sotelo said.

  • Jul 14, 2020
  • 2:50 PM

Will Trump Be for the US What Pete Wilson Was for California 25 Years Ago?

“America is having its own 187 moment,” said Manuel Pastor, Director of the USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII).

  • Nov 8, 2019
  • 7:58 AM

I’m Venezuelan, I’m a Progressive and I Want to See Maduro Go

We want Venezuela back from the brink of disaster, and the rebuilding of the institutions that can help us create a better country.

  • Feb 21, 2019
  • 6:40 PM

While Previous ‘Caravaneros’ Wait in Tijuana, More Are on Their Way From Central America

“I prefer this, at least, there’s always some hope,” one young man told Latino Rebels.

  • Jan 25, 2019
  • 8:56 AM

DREAMer Held After Misdemeanor Arrest, Alleges Denial of HIV Medication in Detention

Held in the notorious Adelanto Detention Center, 24 year-old Osny Sorto is fighting deportation to Honduras. He has been in the United States since as he was 9 years old.

  • Nov 15, 2018
  • 10:30 AM

LA Times Publishes Completely Different Political Endorsements in English and Spanish

Why is the same newspaper offering different endorsements?

  • Oct 31, 2018
  • 9:13 AM

A Refugee Community Gets Its Saint

Oscar Arnulfo Romero will be canonized this Sunday by the Pope, offering a reason to celebrate for the Salvadoran diaspora in the United States.

  • Oct 11, 2018
  • 9:38 AM

Last Living Daughter of El Mozote Survivor Gets Asylum in the United States

In an interview with Latino Rebels, Marta Maritza Amaya says that she feared for her life in El Salvador but plans to continue her mother Rufina’s legacy of speaking about the 1981 massacre.

  • Sep 6, 2018
  • 10:16 AM

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