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Six corporations control 90% of everything we watch, listen to and read in the United States. Go ahead and let that sink in. Never mind the monopolizing of business, but focus more on the monopolizing of your views. The gentle programming beat of the mass media goes on, ever so slyly, that it’s nearly unrecognizable. […]

As the local Denver press focuses on the shooting death of 17-year-old Jessica Hernández, Latino Rebels reached out this morning to the attorneys of the Hernández family for the full statement released yesterday to the media, since the outlets we read and watched are just reporting partial excerpts. We received the following statement as well […]

When the White House recently announced it was entering into a period of détente with Havana, I had just finished Fidel’s 2007 autobiography. I remember putting the book down and wondering when Cuba was going to release Alan Gross, a contractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development. Washington still maintains Gross was never a spy but was […]

A local Denver news channel spoke with an eyewitness who says she was in the car during the shooting death of 17-year-old Jessica Hernández. Here is the report Wednesday evening:

This morning, our founder @julito77 was having a cup of coffee in East Milton Square (about 7 miles south of downtown Boston) when he saw that the traffic in the square was heavier than normal. He went out to the overpass (which he said wasn’t that crowded yet) and saw that Interstate 93 North was […]

This is what local Kansas media is reporting about the January 3 death of John Paul Quintero: video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Yesterday, the Quintero family shared a statement with the media: My name is Alina Quintero. I am the cousin of John Paul Quintero and the spokesperson for our family. At this time I’m […]

With speculation that there is some type of progress in the case of Oscar López Rivera, the following press release was shared with Latino Rebels earlier this week. Birth of a Patriot, Star of a Nation La Respuesta magazine and National Boricua Human Rights Network call for a social media campaign on January 6, 2015 […]

According to reports from The Associated Press, The Huffington Post, and the National Law Journal, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., heard arguments from the lawyer representing Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio in his challenge to President Obama’s executive action on immigration. By all accounts, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell seemed unimpressed. Howell was hearing arguments […]

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In 1972, President Nixon began a process to normalize relations with communist China. In his own stumbling-into-stuff-way, President Reagan did the same with the Soviets in the 1980s. Both countries were powerful and in a position to really challenge the United State. When all these changes happened, having two Republican presidents reach out to Cold […]

On December 13, we received the following email from a student a Cal State Long Beach: The university promotes itself as a “liberal” institution that promotes diversity speaks or teaches about “white privilege” but deeply embedded in its institutional culture and in other pockets of the campus culture is a white supremacist, individualistic and hateful […]

Ay, Cuba. The media tend to ignore you until they can’t anymore. That certainly happened when President Obama announced the U.S. would seek to normalize relations after a hiatus of more than half a century. It was a plot worthy of Graham Greene, involving spies in Havana and Miami, secret negotiations in Canada, and even […]

On December 22, 1997, 45 Tzotzil Indians were massacred in the village of Acteal, Mexico. Of the 45 who died, 21 were women and 16 were children. With the focus on Ayotzinapa continuing in Mexico along with the news that Mexican authorities were complicit in the recent Iguala mass kidnappings, the 17th anniversary of the […]

Each year, more and more Latinos are choosing to pursue a postsecondary education. Latinos pursuing a postsecondary education are vital to our nation’s economic, political and social future. Simply making the choice to postsecondary degree, however, is not enough. An overwhelming number of Latinos that start a degree do not finish. We need to ensure […]

Between November 20 and 22, scholars, activists, students, film directors and community organizers met in Otavalo, Ecuador for the first “International Encounter on Good Life [Sumak Kawsay], Plurinational State, and Interculturality in Latin America.” The event was covered by several media outlets, including Ecuador’s TVN, APAK and Taiwan’s Mata!. The conference explored the way in which […]

Yesterday, Democracy Now! explored the case of Assata Shakur in the context of the recent developments between the United States and Cuba.

No one saw it coming. And when news started circulating just 56 hours ago that something big was happening about US Cuba policy, we all couldn’t believe it. The United States of America would actually begin to change a 54-year-old policy towards an island that was once its neighbor, its conquest, its playground and most recently […]

The prison door creaks open and history is made. Cold turned lukewarm in a spy swap worthy of a Graham Greene novel. Church bells rang in the Cuban capital as President Raúl Castro, dressed in a military uniform and not his usual guayabera, announced the thaw in relations with the United States. Simultaneously, President Obama […]

The short of it: On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Arthur Schwab, an appointee of George W. Bush, declared President’s Obama’s executive action on immigration unconstitutional. As in struck down. Illegal. Void. Invalid. No good. The long of it: The decision is procedurally strange at best, and indefensible at worst. Meaning that it’s highly likely an […]

To see my 92 year-old father’s morning face on waking up to news of President Obama’s announcement about U.S.-Cuban relations was to see the future of U.S. politics. “What?” he asked in the crackly, sleepy voice that’s taken on a sadder cadence since my mother María, his partner of 60-plus years, died last year. “Obama […]

In a short order, the U.S. Supreme Court today denied Arizona’s last-ditch request to block issuance of driver’s licenses to undocumented students granted deportation relief under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. This lawsuit has been moving through the courts for years. Shortly after DACA was announced in 2012, the administration of outgoing Gov. […]