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Can you believe that the whole MSNBC/GMA #CincoDeFallo only happened last week? Leave it John Oliver and his new HBO show to put a final bow on this story. (Technically, the Cinco De Fallo fiascos had to to with an ethnic group, but still.) Watch. (h/t Fusion)

Now that the MSNBC’s #CincodeFallo “Way Too Early” segment pretty much went global, this afternoon Hugo Balta, President of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) posted a follow-up comment on a public open Facebook group run by NAHJ: Balta also tweeted out the following: Grateful 2 @ThomasARoberts @NBCLOU 4 reaching out…candid conversation on diversity […]

While national news channels had their own #CincoDeFallo moments, a Twitter tip from college student Maria Fernanda Andia @mfaeb also got our attention: Couldn't be more disappointed with #UMD 's dining service making employees wear fake mustaches & sombreros for Cinco de Mayo @presidentloh — Maria Fernanda Andia (@mfaeb) May 5, 2014 LT Offensive & […]

UPDATE, May 9, 2014, 11:00 am ET: Looks like Spacey finally wised up. Or did he? I guess nobody got the joke. I was in character as Francis Underwood in House of Cards, not myself! I don't know jack about Mexican politics — Kevin Spacey (@KevinSpacey) May 8, 2014 By the way, there are already […]

UPDATE, May 6, 2014, 5:30pmET: Spencer’s Twitter account shared an apology: Got carried w excitement over Cinco de Mayo celebration on GMA-sorry and thankful to @johnqabc @prrosado @julito77-u make great points.    — Lara Spencer (@LaraSpencer) May 6, 2014 Well, we might as well call out every U.S. media outlet for its blatant insensitivity when it […]

UPDATE, 9:00 am EST, May 7, 2014 Two Instagrams of apologies. A bit too corporate? UPDATE, 1:00 pm EST, May 6, 2014 The latest from Hugo Balta, President of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ): UPDATE MSNBC TO ISSUE APOLOGY ON THE AIR: from MSNBC EP Alex Korson….Hugo, here is the apology we have […]

[View the story “Following Weeks of Tension, Cinco de Mayo Protests Come and Go in Morgan Hill” on Storify]

We won’t pretend that #CincoDeFallo came from us, it was @MichaelCalienes who coined the phrase. Nonetheless, we are glad that he did, and then let us know about it, because how best to describe all the failed ideas from brands today? Yup, #CincoDeFallo. Michael started the day with a few good ones. #CincoDeFallo RT @Gain: […]

Earlier today, we shared a post about a Cinco de Mayo breakfast hosted by Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden. It got some attention, for the obvious reasons listed here. (By the way, we must credit the label “Hispandering” to the fabulous @AdrianaMaestas.) This afternoon the Hispandering from the White House […]

Hey, everyone, did you know that today is Cinco de Mayo? You know what that means, right? All-out “Hispandering!” The following is from an actual press pool email we received today from the Office of the Vice President. Yes, of the United States. This guy. Good morning from the Naval Observatory where your pooler is […]

The public relations push for Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto continues. EPN will be on the cover of Mexico’s Rolling Stone magazine now. Talk about bizarre. As you might imagine, the image of Peña Nieto as a “reformer” has always been in question. We’re not surprised that some Twitter profiles have already started to slam […]

It must be May, just days before Cinco de Mayo, because several companies and organizations have got it going on big time in the Stereotype Department this year. What follows are just four examples people shared with us today via our social networks. (Safe to say there are many more.) First off, let’s look at […]

In what has become a contentious issue for the San Jose suburb of Morgan Hill, CA, emails sent to Latino Rebels tonight about upcoming Pro-US Flag Cinco de Mayo protests in front of Live Oak High School, allege that some pro-protest Tea Party members were threatening students at a local town meeting, even causing one […]

Looks like Cinco de Mayo 2014 is moving away from 2013 stereotypical ignorance to a new wave in patriotic nativism. Yesterday, we shared a story from California, where a school district had to warn parents that the safety of students could be in jeopardy on May 5. That decision by Morgan Hill Unified School District […]

With every cause, there is an effect. For a California school district, the cause is the prospect of rallies to celebrate American patriotism and protest a court ruling banning students from wearing US flag t-shirts on Cinco de Mayo. The effect of the rallies’s promotion and subsequent hate language being used by supporters have led to […]

Leave it to the fabulosa Laura Martínez of “Mi blog es tu blog” for finding this nugget. Apparently, according to Laura (btw, follow her @miblogestublog), the folks at Oscar Mayer posted the following ad in People en español: For those of you playing at home, this ad suggests some random flasher showing off his turkey […]

In a United States that is becoming more diverse every day, new questions about race, ethnicity and identity regularly appear in mainstream publications and discussions. Central to these debates is the country’s growing Latino population. These days, it seems every editorial outlet in the country has to write about Latinos (demographics! advertising!), even when those outlets’ Latino […]

Meet Florida Senate President Don Gaetz (R), who earlier today said the following about a proposed state bill (SB 1400) that would give undocumented students the ability to pay in-state tuition rates at Florida’s public universities and colleges: To give that quote some more context, here is more of what Gaetz said about SB 1400, […]

UPDATE, November 23, 2015: Thompson revisited Big Papi again. And we haven’t changed our opinion. Now we REALLY know that NBC’s Saturday Night Live does not give a crap when it comes to mocking Latinos. A few weeks back, we saw a non-Latina (Cecily Strong) fail with perhaps one of the most unfunny loud Latina […]

A few days ago, one of our Twitter followers (Tomás Vera) raised an interesting point: @dadkind @McDonalds seriously? No way, do you have a link? That is crazy. — Latino Rebels (@latinorebels) April 5, 2014 We kept tweeting back and forth: @dadkind ok! once you get it pass it on we will looks as well! […]

This is a statement that The Orlando Sentinel got from Lew Oliver, chairman of the Orange County Republican Executive Committee, in response to a story that the Florida county is getting more and more blue: Voter registration stats are nearly perfect reflections of demographics or national trends, rather than local efforts. Actually we’re a little […]