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This one gets a major #NoMames. Here's the scoop from KTLA: An Orange County high school has pulled the plug on its 'Señores and Señoritas' theme day, after some complained that it was demeaning to Latino culture. The event has been taking place during senior week at Canyon High School every June for the past […]

We asked Roberto Lovato to record his thoughts and impressions about a meeting he and others from the Caravan for Peace had with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio last week in Phoenix. Here is what Lovato sent us this weekend. GUEST POST by Roberto Lovato “America's Toughest Sheriff” has the softest hands of any lawman […]

Let's forget for just a few moments the smugness and self-promotional arrogance of CNN contributor Ruben Navarrette, Jr., who continues to provide his own congratulatory play-by-play updates on his public Facebook site about a column that in the end called into question the patriotism and accomplishments of American medalist Leo Manzano. We have already responded […]

A few weeks ago the Los Angeles Times reported a story that explored Mitt Romney's efforts to fund Bain Capital and how some of the company's initial investors were from families who had tied to El Salvador's Dirty War and its death squads. The news opened a wound with many Salvadoran Americans who were displaced […]

We thought long and hard about what Ruben Navarrette Jr. had to say on CNN.com today (for a very lively discussion about what our community is saying, visit here). Our first thought was to have our jefe write an open letter, since he is one crazy Puerto Rican who is known to root for the […]

We got the following video from @FunnyLatino today on our Facebook wall and we are glad we did. Román Suárez is a Bronx-born comic/actor/writer. He is one of the countless of talented individuals who have connected with our online communities. Suárez offered this video response to the New York Times piece called "Networks Struggle to Appeal […]

As her adviser (and Chief of Staff) continues to face a controversy for racist tweets she made about President Obama, Puerto Rico's Speaker of the House Jenniffer González issued a statement suggesting that comments such as the ones Heidi Wys Toro's made were "unacceptable." The statement does not specifically call out Wys Toro for the […]

Update: Wys Toro finally offered apologies on August 2 for these tweets, and her account is now private on Twitter. They say that politics in Puerto Rico can be a bit like kindergarten. As much as the island's politicians aspire to a higher standard, they are just not ready for the big time. When politicians […]

On July 27, during #OcupaTelevisa and around the time the broadcast of the opening ceremonies of the Olympics was being televised in Mexico, the official Twitter account of Televisa's news division was hacked and a tweet calling Enrique Peña Nieto, Mexico's President-elect, a "pendejo" was published. Here is the screen capture: The tweet was publicly visible […]

UPDATE: The Televisa news feed account went back up live around 5:00 PM EST on July 28. The hacked tweet was removed. Talk about taking a protest to Twitter. Yesterday, the official Twitter account of Televisa's news division, Noticieros Televisa, was allegedly hacked around 3pm EST during the start of the Olympics's opening ceremonies, according […]

The last few days, the #YoSoy132 movement and others in Mexico protested the studios of Televisa, one of the country's largest media companies. The protest has caught the attention of the mainstream media, including the New York Times, which posted a new story about an hour ago tonight. Here is an excerpt from that story: […]

Last night, Latino Rebels was the first English-language outlet to report the "oops moment" by Univision, which had broadcast a July 25 video wishing Puerto Rico a Happy Independence Day on what is Constitution Day to some (the 60th anniversary of Puerto Rico's Commonwealth government) and Occupation Day (when US troops invaded the island in […]

Another Sunday, another march in Mexico to protest the alleged fraud during the July 1 presidential elections. Yesterday’s marches were captured via social media, with unconfirmed images being posted and shared (like this one below, which we are sure is from 2006) throughout the day. Here is a Storify of pics taken from Twitter and […]

Let's get this straight. Mention Taco Bell to many US Latinos and you will get this: Crap food, unless you are drunk or high at 2 am and need to force feed yourself (although for us, we would search out the real deal, or just make it ourselves). You mean the brand that has just […]

Capitalism 101. Someone wants a product. Someone else produces that product. Person who wants the product that was produced purchases the product. Person who made the product gets the money from the person who bought the product. Rinse and repeat. That is basically how it goes. Whether it is legal or against the law. Such […]

So the Mitt Romney Latino strategy continues with the latest Spanish ad that features his son Craig (looking like a Univision soap opera star) telling Spanish-speaking voters that his father Mitt believes in immigration and will work to find a bipartisan solution to reform the immigration system. Titled "País de inmigrantes," the ad mentions nothing […]

Last night we submitted questions to Gabriela Saucedo Mercer, Republican candidate for Arizona's 3rd Congressional district, regarding the following Facebook post. We followed up today with a piece that showed that two of Saucedo Mercer's FB posts in the last week were lifted from other sources that weren't credited. The questions we submitted were these: Can […]

UPDATE: The post mentioned in this story was removed from Facebook around 12:30 AM EST July 16, 2012. Tonight the following Facebook post from the official page of Gabriela Saucedo Mercer, a Republican candidate for Congress in Arizona's District 3, has started to go viral and is getting mostly negative and angry attention for the […]

We thought long and hard about NOT PUBLISHING this piece, because It involves a puppet; This puppet’s shtick, although sometimes funny, is coarse and we know that when we start giving this puppet attention, he will just start cursing at us and lowering the debate; Even when we suggested to the puppet that we disagreed […]

Here we go again. Just a week after tens of thousands (can we say hundreds now?) of Mexicans took to the streets for the first #MegaMarcha demonstrations to proclaim that the country's July 1 presidential elections were fraudulent, a second series of marches occurred again yesterday. For those who don't know the full story, here […]

As a follow up to a piece by The Daily Caller that suggested that the USDA (and hence, the Obama Administration) is marketing food stamps to "non-citizens" because the government has created a series of Spanish-language "soap operas," we received a letter from veteran journalist Isaac Cubillos, who wrote to The Daily Caller. Cubillos has […]