Injustice

Rebel Diaz, some of the hardest-working group of musicians we know, are back from their live Ferguson reporting to team up with The Reminders, who recently completed a successful tour opening for Ms. Lauryn Hill. With Aja Black on the chorus, and Big Samir with the Rebel Diaz brothers holding down the verses, the Kid Koi-produced, […]

The apparent massacre of students from Ayotzinapa in Iguala has completely shocked the Mexican public and provoked outrage across the globe. Some have called this a game changer for Mexico. In some ways it clearly is, but maybe not in the ways we imagine. The case of Ciudad Juárez The brutal massacre at Iguala is far from […]

The land of Zapata has once again become a beacon of hope in the middle of the arid desert of corruption which today controls politics as usual in Washington, Mexico City, Ottawa and beyond. While Mexico’s President, Enrique Peña Nieto, is busy negotiating deals with international investors and rubbing elbows with world leaders this week […]

Earlier today we got a few tweets from @joeltana (who quite frankly is one of our favorite Twitter followers because he is incredibly smart and oh yeah, a very nice person, too.) Here were the tweets: .@latinorebels homies, Oakland had a solidarity event for Ayotzinapa last night. Pics https://t.co/rpx3HcIw0j video https://t.co/msY4cYa0Cg — Joel Tena (@joeltena) […]

This weekend, while we were all finding out more about what is happening now in Mexico, Rebel Report’s R.J. Aguiar shares his take in our latest episode on Flama. Connect the dots, people. Mexico matters, and R.J. explains why: 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 […]

[View the story “CRUNCH Mexico Blasted for Tweet Joke About #Ayotzinapa” on Storify]

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 […]

[View the story “After Tragic News of Mexican Students, #YaMeCansé Trends Globally on Twitter” on Storify]

Ricardo Gaona is a Mexican-American filmmaker who has been working on PARQUE CENTRAL, a documentary being made in Guatemala for the past year. The film is extremely close to completion. It’s a portrait of Antigua, Guatemala and the children from faraway villages in Quiche who work in the city’s central park to make ends meet. […]

You really don’t need to know Spanish to understand what the following video is all about and what each person is saying. “I am not a number.” “I am [one of the missing Ayotzinapa students].”

[View the story “While You Lament the Midterms, This Is Happening in Mexico Right Now” on Storify]

The first thought on hearing the man likely to become the new Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, deliver another lifeless victory speech last night was, “And the winner is… The Walking Dead!” No, it has nothing to do with any resemblance between the gentleman senator from Kentucky and the flesh-eating zombies thrilling millions each week […]

Editor’s note: A previous version of this piece ran on Medium. We are the ghosts of Salinas and we are extending the Day of the Dead indefinitely. We will not rest. Instead we are here to put the privilege of impunity to rest, for your benefit, for your children’s benefit. On All Saints Day, on […]

The following video created by the YouTube channel of Boston for Ayotzinapa shows 136 students of 43 countries and five universities (Harvard, MIT, Boston University, Berklee College of Music and Tufts) standing in solidarity with the 43 missing students from Mexico. Last week, the group posted this video.

This week, Fusion shared the following video: For the latest about #Ayotzinapa, follow these hashtags: #ItWasTheState and #FueElEstado. México se mueve por los normalistas desaparecidos. #FueElEstado #AyotzinapaSomosTodos http://t.co/07QCrBrIVY pic.twitter.com/idp4uc30zX — La Izquierda Diario (@izquierdadiario) November 1, 2014 #ItWasTheState and his security policy, supported by all the political parties in Mexico #BerlinConAyotzi Mexico pic.twitter.com/KvCKXcZnem — YoSoy132InterNtional […]

The following release was sent to Latino Rebels this afternoon from the offices of Amoachi & Johnson, Attorneys at Law, PLLC: STATEMENT OF ATTORNEY BRYAN JOHNSON REGARDING THE SEXUAL ABUSE AND RAPE OF A YOUNG CHILD IN THE ARTESIA DETENTION FACILITY My client was sexually abused and raped in the Artesia Detention Facility. He is […]

After catching the first two segments, catch part three here.

Ever since machine-gun-wielding members of the Mexican military kidnapped, raped and then beheaded her daughter, forcing several members of her family to migrate, my friend Ana María (name changed to protect her) understands all too intimately the deep connection between mass immigration from Mexico and the mass graves that reside there. Yet, more than most, […]