Injustice

Bring Chanel Home (OPINION)

Chanel Rustad, a four-year-old Alaska Native child, is currently in the custody of a racist white couple, Nikki Richman and Joseph Jurco, after her father murdered her mother in January 2020. Chanel’s maternal grandmother is fighting for custody.

  • Jul 12, 2023
  • 4:41 PM

Supreme Court of Politics

Affirmative action struck down in college admissions. LGBTQ rights limited. Student loan relief blocked. Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Vanity Fair legal affairs contributor Cristian Farias to discuss the latest round of Supreme Court rulings plagued by shaky evidence, questionable plaintiffs and the lack of legal standing.

  • Jul 6, 2023
  • 2:12 PM

Lessons from the Sacramento Migrant Crisis (OPINION)

As we respond to the next political stunt involving migrants, let’s commit to protecting the institutions and liberties we often take for granted.

  • Jun 15, 2023
  • 10:57 AM

The Hate Crime No One Is Talking About (OPINION)

Aaron Martinez was murdered by a neighbor who didn’t want Latinos in his neighborhood.

  • Jun 13, 2023
  • 6:58 AM

Rape and Torture: Transgender Women Open Up About Their Suffering Under Argentina’s Dictatorship

González and four other transgender women testified at the trial of former security officers in April on charges of crimes against humanity, part of what human-rights lawyers and activists call Argentina’s long-overdue effort to recognize the suffering of the trans community under military rule from 1976 to 1983. Members of the community took part in a demonstration last month in support of a bill under discussion in a congressional committee that would provide a lifetime pension for trans people over 40.

  • Jun 12, 2023
  • 10:19 AM

The Justice System in Texas Is Failing Victims of Crime and Their Families (OPINION)

A personal account about the murder of a young Latino man in Texas and the failure of the local court system to provide justice to his loved ones.

  • Aug 25, 2022
  • 3:43 PM

From EL FARO ENGLISH: Secret Dossiers Prove Hundreds of Wrongful Detentions in El Salvador

Leaked court documents reveal that wrongful arrests in El Salvador are on the rise as the country courses its fifth month in a state of exception that suspended multiple constitutional rights.

  • Aug 10, 2022
  • 5:17 PM

Who Was Miguel Gonzáles?

Latino Rebels Radio: August 4, 2023

  • Aug 4, 2022
  • 6:24 PM

Suave’s World

Latino Rebels Radio: July 21, 2022

  • Jul 21, 2022
  • 5:52 PM

How Latinos Are Responding to the Overturning of ‘Roe v Wade’

“It’s not surprising to us,” said Lupe M. Rodríguez, executive director for the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice. “We have been expecting this for many years and sounding the alarm around this possibility.”

  • Jun 28, 2022
  • 3:17 PM

Overturning ‘Roe v. Wade’ Is Disastrous for Latina Survivors of Gender-Based Violence (OPINION)

It is even harder for pregnant people facing gender-based violence to make informed, active choices about when, how, and if they want to grow their families. In order for Latinas to thrive, and to do that, we must resecure the rights, access, and power to determine our own destinies.

  • Jun 24, 2022
  • 5:58 PM

CBP Says It Will Investigate Origin of Unofficial Coin Showing Border Patrol Agent Chasing Haitian Migrant

As reported by McClatchy and the Miami Herald on Tuesday, the existence of an unofficial “challenge coin” with an engraved image of a Border Patrol agent apparently chasing a Haitian migrant on horseback has led to promises of an investigation by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

  • Jun 14, 2022
  • 6:30 PM

The Ex-Rebel Women Searching for Colombia’s Disappeared

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Yaritza, Mireya, Shirley, and Otilia travel the country searching for the bodies of those who were disappeared during the civil war.

  • Jun 14, 2022
  • 5:18 PM

Uvalde Resiste

Latino USA tells the story of resistance within this Mexican-American community—how it stood up against segregation and oppression in the past and how after such a devastating tragedy is trying to heal today.

  • Jun 10, 2022
  • 11:37 AM

Conservative Latinos Must Challenge Republican Leadership (OPINION)

News from the terrorist attack on an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas exposes deep-seated anti-Latino animus in politics

  • Jun 6, 2022
  • 1:01 PM

Reflections on Uvalde

Latino Rebels Radio: June 2, 2022

  • Jun 2, 2022
  • 5:32 PM

American Samoans Ask Supreme Court to Overturn ‘Racist’ Insular Cases

A petition filed in April by American Samoans asks the Supreme Court to overturn a set of century-old rulings used to deny equal rights and federal benefits to the residents of American Samoa, Puerto Rico, Guam, and other U.S. territories.

  • Jun 1, 2022
  • 3:50 PM

High School Student: ‘We Can’t Turn Our Backs on America’s Gun Problem’ (OPINION)

This is not the first time or the last, sadly, that we will hear about a school shooting. But once again, people in power pay their condolences and move forward without even acting upon it, and the whole cycle keeps on going again and again.

  • May 27, 2022
  • 1:15 PM

Wisconsin Man Gets 10 Years in Prison for Racist Acid Attack

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge sentenced a white Wisconsin man to a decade in prison Wednesday for throwing acid in a Latino man’s face in a racist attack at a Milwaukee bus stop.

  • May 22, 2022
  • 6:59 PM

A Buffalo Tragedy

Latino Rebels Radio: May 19, 2022

  • May 19, 2022
  • 3:31 PM

Buffalo Shooting Latest Example of Targeted Racial Violence

For many Black Americans, the Buffalo shooting has stirred up the same feelings they faced after Charleston and other attacks: the fear, the vulnerability, the worry that nothing will be done politically or otherwise to prevent the next act of targeted racial violence.

  • May 16, 2022
  • 5:39 PM

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