Latino Rebels

Ok, MTV, we give you a B for concept, but an F for execution. The idea of a reality show based in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan sounded great on paper. It really did. And quite frankly, last night’s premiere had some moments, but here is why we thought the show was just another […]

In light of recent developments surrounding the departure of Kobbo Santarrosa from WAPA TV’s “SuperXclusivo” show, WAPA released the following statement in Spanish around 6:10 pm EST, with a revision at 6:31 pm EST: SAN JUAN, PR – Kobbo Santarrosa renunció a SuperXclusivo. A pesar de haber llegado a un acuerdo satisfactorio entre las partes […]

UPDATE, 2:30 EST, 1/6/13: According to local Delaware radio, the signs have been removed. Here is what was posted on the Facebook page of Delaware 105.9’s program director: Steve Stutzman reports that Milford School Superintendent Dr. Phyllis Kohel has removed the offending playground signs shown and mentioned on my facebook page yesterday. People power wins […]

Here’s something you don’t see every day. A perfume that smells like a tamal. Yup, that is what one Latina is trying to capture as a way to “capture the culture” of Chicago’s famed Pilsen neighborhood. Here is what DNAInfo.com Chicago had to say about Zorayda “Z” Ortiz and her latest tamal-inspired scent: Part of […]

There are very few polarizing figures in modern Latin America and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is clearly one of them. To some (especially those who run with oil companies), he is despised. To others (mostly those who believe in rights for the poor), he is revered. The last few weeks have been a online swirl […]

When approached today by reporters at an event in Puerto Rico, WAPA-TV president Joe Ramos addressed the recent controversy surrounding “SuperXclusivo,” his network’s top-rated show, and La Comay, the show’s puppet host played by actor Kobbo Santarrosa. Ramos, who will not comment to this outlet after several interview requests were made through WAPA’s established procedures, […]

¿Qué qué? What? In one of the most culturally ignorant stories we have seen this week (h/t to @joeltana, a story out of Cooper City, FL chronicles how “a volunteer soccer coach for a city-sponsored youth league was ejected from a game after two referees ordered him to stop giving instructions in Spanish to several […]

You would think that Puerto Rico’s WAPA-TV would try to avoid even more controversy as it looks for a way to resolve the BoicotLaComay mess. Apparently, according to Otro20Pesos.com, WAPA now has another problem on its hand. Tonight the blog reported that Puerto Rico hip hop star Lisa M was kicked out of the network […]

Today HuffPost Live (video here) discussed the recent developments surrounding the “SuperXclusivo” controversy and boycott movement against Puerto Rico’s top-rated show and its puppet host, La Comay. The segment covered a lot of issues including the story the Rebels broke yesterday and later reported by our founder for NBC Latino about homophonic emails sent by the show. […]

We got this story from LatinoCommunicators as well as the great Richard Prince of Journal-isms, out of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. (And oh yeah, Soledad O'Brien.) According to Prince's post, meteorologist Rhonda Lee was fired by ABC Shreveport affiliate KTBS because Lee "responded to a racial remark posted by a viewer on the station's Facebook […]

Today Al Jazeera's "The Stream" featured the recent events in Puerto Rico regarding the brutal murder of publicist José Enrique Gómez and the social media movements that resulted from recent events. The following video focuses on #TodosSomosJoseEnrique and #BoicotLaComay. "

In October, we ran a piece called "Now Ben Affleck Is Latino: Another Lost Opportunity for Hollywood." As we tried to stray away from the "we're offended" line that many of our critics tossed our way (because that was not the point of the piece, if people actually took the time to read it and not […]

In response to the recent controversy surrounding the Mexican costume image taken by the Chi Omega sorority chapter of Penn State, the National Association of Latino Fraternal National Organizations (NALFO) released the following statement yesterday:

This afternoon Puerto Rican governor Luis Fortuño formally requested a recount of the election he conceded two weeks ago to governor-elect Alejandro García Padilla. Puerto Rican Governor Luis Fortuño According to a breaking news report by Puerto Rico's El Nuevo Día, the electoral head of island's pro-statehood New Progressive Party (PNP), Edwin Mundo, said that […]

Just when we thought that Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) was going out on a limb and telling the world that Pitbull ain't no Tupac or Eminem (TRUTH!), a story by NBC Latino published today just proves that Rubio is just another politician who likes to offer music critiques and delete tweets. Now the Miami native is […]

Tonight, MSNBC released the following statement regarding a Mexican Twinkie segment it aired on "The Cycle:" On Monday’s The Cycle, we aired a graphic during our reporting on the Hostess story that was apparently offensive to some viewers. We want to say that it was never the intention of MSNBC to offend any person or […]

UPDATE: MSNBC offered a non-apology tonight around 7:30 EST, November 19, 2012. We really thought that we wouldn't have to write TWO Twinkies posts in one day, but here we are again talking about Twinkies. And for all the wrong reasons. Earlier today on MSNBC, S.E. Cupp—one of the co-hosts of MSNBC's The Cycle—introduced a […]

Ok, first of all, this post will try to stay away from the fact that Americans are expressing more outrage about Twinkies (owned by Hostess) going out of business than the tragic conflict occurring right now between Israel and the Palestinian authority. To think that the iconic Twinkies brand, as well as all the other […]

A lot has been written about "Los IceHogs Night" in Rockford, IL, this past week. You know where the Rebeldes stand on it and what our jefe had to say about it for NBC Latino. And don't get us started about the fact that the group that helped to design the now infamous Los IceHogs […]

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 […]