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A fire in a Detroit suburb has claimed the lives of five Mexican immigrants who worked at a restaurant and appear to have been living in the basement of a home owned by their boss.

Trump’s defeat in Iowa may be due in no small part to Kenia Calderon, an undocumented immigrant who has been an active leader in the immigrant protests against Trump’s campaign.

Before U.S. policy led to the creation of ISIS, it helped create gang violence in Central America. Now a Senate report shows the U.S. isn’t done committing crimes against people of the region.

Over 500 years after the Spaniards invaded what we now call the Americas, is there a “correct” Spanish anymore?

If anything “ruins” Cuba, it won’t be foreign investment. It’ll be U.S. policy.

When a Peruvian newspaper began displaying half-naked women in its pages under the heading “Malcriadas,” one young woman thought of a way to turn that label on its head.

How a recent tweet in Spanish from Hillary Clinton’s campaign sparked a debate over proper language and hyper-correction.

MSNBC’s Hardball Chris Matthews performs another acrobatic foot-to-mouth faux pas last night. You heard that right. In the heels of his November 2015, claim that Cruz and Rubio should even be considered Hispanic, he dared to bash a Trumpless debate stating: “Who is going to watch a debate between the two Cuban guys?” the Hardball […]

We all united in a collective sigh of relief when Presidential contestant Donald Trump decided to boycott his allies at Fox news and skip Thursday’s GOP debate. His Campaign Manager, Corey Lewandowski told reporters We’ll have an event here in Iowa, with potentially another network, to raise money for Wounded Warriors and Fox will go […]

Year after year, Latinos insist on making the Latino vote mostly irrelevant. What is it about Latinos that keeps them away from the polls?

Is Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley the unfortunate victim of the lack of Hispandering by his campaign?

Two stories from the Volunteer State, where many people are refusing to voluntarily accept Latinos and LGBTs as equal citizens.

Why Latinos concerned with the environment should vote for Bernie Sanders.

During the Flint water crisis, the state and city have neglected and were desensitized to the particular concerns of Latinos.

The Central American migrant crisis is back in the news.

A New York man has been charged with choking, endangering the welfare of a child, coercion and assault after he forced his girlfriend to walk the street in just a bath towel for allegedly talking to other men.

“Perhaps as many as 1,000 are not going to water distribution centers, they’re not calling 211 and they’re not getting deliveries. It’s because they’re scared.”

Workers at a Lexmark plant in Juárez, Mexico were fired a few days before Christmas after they demanded that their employer keep to a promised 35-cent per day raise.

“We knew it!” screams the independence movement in Puerto Rico. Now what remains is justice.

In a Supreme Court hearing this week, the Puerto Rico government argued that it receives its authority from the people of Puerto Rico. But the Obama administration corrected it.

Globalfest returns for its 13th edition on Sunday, January 17, at Webster Hall in New York City. Latino Rebels spoke with two of its organizers.