Latino Rebels

You have to be f-ing kidding us. Is it that hard to get ONE comedy writer who knows what they’re talking about? Exhibit A: this is what bad stereotypical comedy is all about, especially when you have just a few days to write a sketch. Welcome to mediocrity, SNL. Your Cuba skit sucked. Enough said.

This video from YaMeCansé dropped yesterday. (h/t @Revolución3_0)

To start a new collaboration between Latino Rebels and La Madre Tierra, we first look to the future with voices that give us hope. Xiuhtezcatl Roske-Martínez is a world-renowned 14-year-old (yes, 14) indigenous climate activist and the very embodiment of this hopeful leadership. La Madre Tierra spoke with Xiuhtezcatl in Colorado over the summer. Here […]

In case you missed it, since there was little to no coverage at all in mainstream U.S. media, here is a video of a November 15 solidarity protest in downtown San Francisco for #Ayotzinapa: One of our own Rebeldes was on the ground in San Francisco taking pictures from the scene: Another one from @minsd […]

Created as a tribute to Mexico’s #YaMeCansé global movement, a #USTired2 mobilization calling for peace in Mexico launched this morning, campaign organizers told Latino Rebels. The group has identified December 3, 2014 as the day of demonstrations and rallies in at least 43 US cities to represent the 43 Ayotzinapa students. Organizers said that their focus will be […]

So just a few days after it was all about “anchor babies,” CNN’s “New Day” had actress Diane Guerrero (“Orange Is the New Black’) on to discuss her very personal story about her family and the open letter she wrote this weekend. “It is so difficult for some people to get documented and to get […]

This week on Rebel Report, host R.J. Aguiar weighs in on Pointergate. For more episodes, check out Episode 1 and Episode 2. Post by Flama.

Editor’s Note: We received the following essay last night from political activist Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera, originally from Mexico City and currently studying in the United States. The images featured are courtesy of MásDe131, a site that covers Mexico’s protest movement. Submitted to LatinoRebels.com by Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez. Comparto artículo que escribí para @latinorebels sobre Ayotzinapa y la […]

This morning, Jesús Murillo Karam, Mexico’s attorney general, is not expressing any regret for the “Ya me cansé” (“I am so tired of this”) comment he made last Friday at the end of a press conference where he said that three members of the Guerreros Unidos gang admitted to burning the bodies of the 43 missing Ayoztinapa […]

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The following video is in Spanish. It provides a history of state violence and corruption in Mexico. As the video channel says in English: The straw that broke the camel’s back. We do not fear. Tlatelolco, June 10, Aguas Blancas, Acteal, Atenco, Nursery ABC Tlatlaya, Ayotzinapa: A cumulative violence of murders and disappearances have raised […]

After trending globally last night on Twitter, videos are starting to appear on Vine and YouTube showing scenes from last night’s demonstrations in Mexico City as well as calls by Mexicans expressing how they are already “tired” of the country’s situation. The #YaMeCansé hashtag was created after Jesús Murillo Karam, Mexico’s attorney general, was finishing […]

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A new short documentary called “Makeshift Americas” is trying to bring more awareness to the issue of forced labor in Latin America by focusing on research-based case studies in Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina. The group behind the film, led by Ana Maria Defillo, has produced a short about the project, with the hopes of raising […]

The following video was posted today on Facebook. It shows unidentified DREAMers interrupting a rally for North Carolina senator Kay Hagan, a Democrat who is running for re-election. In the video, Hagan, whose immigration record has been the target of progressive organizations, tells the DREAMers the she is for immigration reform, unlike her Republican opponent […]

Tonight in Cambridge, Massachusetts, before the screening of Underwater Dreams at MIT, @julito77 interviewed José Gómez, one of the first MIT students to publicly declare that he is undocumented. Here is the full interview: Earlier today Latino Rebels received the following release about the MIT students who announced their undocumented status tonight: Today, in conjunction […]

For the last couple of weeks Holyoke, Massachusetts, has been at the center of a dispute over the place of Puerto Rican identity in its public art. The controversy started when Mimi Wielgosz objected to having David Flores’ mural, depicting a standard Puerto Rican license plate saying “Puerto Rico, Holyoke, Isla del Encanto” on her […]

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Today the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) released the following report, saying that it “illuminates the inhumane interior Immigration and Customs Enforcement practices that continue unabated while the President postpones action and it highlights the human cost of the delay. The key findings shed light on an agency driven by one calculated mission, to […]

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In case you missed it, Enrique Peña Nieto appeared on CNN yesterday Fareed Zakaria. The Mexican president shared his thoughts about the U.S. and immigration. Here is a clip: