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Here's a way to NOT learn from the results of the presidential elections: instead of blaming your own failings, many extremist conservative media types just want to blame others. You would think that the time for self-reflection was truly that: looking at one's own internal problems. Guess not. The latest comes from the conservative newspaper, […]

Here is the short answer to a viral Facebook meme that has gotten over 160,000 likes and over 22,000 shares: we don't agree with you. As for the long answer to the ignorance that is still being promoted and celebrated by the haters, here are just a few reminders: Speaking Spanish doesn't make you "illegal," […]

Ahh, Twitter. You're never boring (see how we wrote "You're" in that sentence?). This past week, several tweets began to demand the following: "Your in America, speak English." Of course, the irony of seeing the tweet misspelled was too good to be true. The very cool @BuzzFeedAndrew started letting Twitter know about the new thread, […]

Just when we thought that Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) was going out on a limb and telling the world that Pitbull ain't no Tupac or Eminem (TRUTH!), a story by NBC Latino published today just proves that Rubio is just another politician who likes to offer music critiques and delete tweets. Now the Miami native is […]

Tonight, MSNBC released the following statement regarding a Mexican Twinkie segment it aired on "The Cycle:" On Monday’s The Cycle, we aired a graphic during our reporting on the Hostess story that was apparently offensive to some viewers. We want to say that it was never the intention of MSNBC to offend any person or […]

UPDATE: MSNBC offered a non-apology tonight around 7:30 EST, November 19, 2012. We really thought that we wouldn't have to write TWO Twinkies posts in one day, but here we are again talking about Twinkies. And for all the wrong reasons. Earlier today on MSNBC, S.E. Cupp—one of the co-hosts of MSNBC's The Cycle—introduced a […]

A lot has been written about "Los IceHogs Night" in Rockford, IL, this past week. You know where the Rebeldes stand on it and what our jefe had to say about it for NBC Latino. And don't get us started about the fact that the group that helped to design the now infamous Los IceHogs […]

Recently, Latino Rebels founder @julito77 ;wrote a very thought-provoking post called ;The Perils of “Latino” Marketing: Lessons Learned from the “Los IceHogs” Hockey Night. It wasn’t clear to some people why trying to appeal to the Hispanic community with a promotional poster of maracas, Corona, and Dora the Explorer can be problematic. So Julito explained […]

Earlier today, the Facebook page of the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts shared a public update about the Kennedy Canter and its dismal history of overlooking Latino for the Kennedy Center Honors awards (only 2 in just 35 years). Apparently the issue is now on the radar screen of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus: KenCen Update: […]

File this one under the "unfortunate" files. As reported by the local Brownsville press, a school sign about the Thanksgiving holiday has gone viral on Facebook and it is eliciting responses that range from the humorous to the ugly. According to reports, officials at Cummings Middle School confirmed that the sign was real and that […]

Guess Bryan Fischer didn't get the memo about last week's election and why the GOP is hurting in its quest to gain more favor from U.S. Latino voters. Just watch this. Seriously, just watch it. It is only about 1 minute long, and we say #NoMames. Hey, Bryan Fischer, you know why you have no […]

Yesterday we posted about the new "Latino" jersey premiering for the AHL's Rockford IceHogs on November 16, and besides one person on our site who respectfully disagreed, the majority of our Facebook and Twitter communities thought the #NoMames for a "Los IceHogs Night" was well-deserved. Apparently, the IceHogs got the blessing of Rockford's local coalition of […]

Ugh. Deadspin reported that the Rockford IceHogs, the American Hockey League affiliate of the Chicago Blackhawks, will be holding a Los IceHogs Night on November 16 in "celebration" of Hispanic Heritage Weekend. Besides wearing some of the most awful and racist jerseys ever, fans will also be getting the jerseys, free maracas, and there will […]

We know that The Daily Bleach is a satire site. Think of it like a dumb person's The Onion. The Bleach is known for skewering anyone. However, unlike The Onion—whose brand clearly screams satire and comedy—the Bleach is on a slippery slope and is unethical. It does very little to clearly disclose that all that […]

Are you kidding us, TMZ? Are you f-ing kidding us? Here is what passes for TMZ's take on Puerto Rico's latest plebiscite results. Dear Harvey Levin, you have no damn clue about Puerto Rico, about its people, or about its history with the United States. If you have real cojones (which you don't), you would […]

Today, the video section of Noticiero Univision posted a report with a headline that read "Members of the Klu Klux Klan Celebrate Arpaio's Victory." As we watched the video, the reporter kept saying that the members allegedly were part of the KKK and never really reported that they were actually members. Throughout the video we […]

With less than a week to go until Election Day, the Mitt Romney campaign is broadcasting a new Spanish-language ad in Florida that goes straight to the Latino fear factor. As reported by The Miami Herald, the following ad says it all. We are bit surprised that the Romney campaign forgot to add Daniel Ortega, […]

Yesterday, our founder wrote an opinion piece about Pedro Rios, a Republican candidate for California's State Assembly who is facing a controversy in his district when it was revealed in the local Bakersfield press that was smuggled into the United States from Mexico as an undocumented youth. Rios, a beneficiary of President Reagan's 1986 amnesty […]

Looks like the recent attention that Maricopa County in Arizona (the same county where Sheriff Joe Arpaio is for running re-election and the same county where over 36,000 new voters were registered to defeat America's Toughest Sheriff) has finally gotten county recorder Helen Purcell to respond. After two errors that listed the incorrect Election Day […]

Last week, we were one of the first outlets outside of Arizona to report about how the Maricopa Country Election Department admitted to having misprinted the wrong date for Election Day on Spanish-language ballots. The story went viral and appeared on several national outlets. It was seen an embarrassing mistake for the county, this year […]

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AT JULIORVARELA.COM So, this interview from Fox Business' Varney and Co. with Puerto Rico Secretary of Commerce José Pérez-Riera is quite telling. The level of ignorance from the American media is sad. Let's get this straight: you can disagree with Pérez-Riera, but the interviewers should at least respect the guy. When will Puerto Ricans wake […]