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And here we go again. It's probably best to check if no one brings a hidden camera to a fundraiser. Here it is, from the mouth of the Republican candidate for president. (H/T to The Daily Kos on this one.)

Early in August, we reported a story about how an Indonesian ad agency published the following ad campaign for Daktarin Foot Powder. Depicting a sleeping barefoot Mexican in a saloon while others are covering their faces with bandanas and fans. A few days after we published the image (which we received from @RayoSaucedo), the ad […]

This just in from our friends at Cuéntame: Hear it from the person closest to George Romney, Lenore Romney. 

Ahh, The Daily Caller. Once again trying to be something that it is not: an observer of the US Latino world. This morning, the Tucker Carlson enterprise published the following story about San Antonio mayor (and new Twitter rockstar) Julián Castro: Julian Castro ‘doesn’t really speak Spanish’ (accent missing is TDC's fault, not ours). Guess TDC kind […]

Who would have thought that a little WordPress blog post from Rockstar GOP would lead to coverage by both Think Progress and NBC? But it happened. The reason? It had a little bit of everything: a delegate to the Republican National Convention, a pre-convention trip to Epcot, and a little bit of straight-out stone-cold anti-Mexican racism. […]

UPDATE: August 31, 2012, 9am EST: @MexicanMitt is back on Twitter. On the night that Mitt Romney was to give his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, reports from our friends at Pocho.com have confirmed that the Twitter account of @MexicanMitt has been suspended. Today Pocho got an advanced copy of the speech that MexicanMitt was […]

A Guest Post by Raúl Colón (@rj_c) of RaulColon.net In history we have seen how an agent provocateur can cause the masses to create more chaos. Last night I realized how much I had underestimated Puerto Rican Governor Luis Fortuño. He might be working for the Democrats after all.  Being a great spy is about […]

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AT JULIORVARELA.COM August was supposed to be a great month for Puerto Rican Governor and pro-statehood Republican Luis Fortuño. He was supposed to claim victory for changes to Puerto Rico's constitution. He did not, essentially setting himself up for an unsuccessful re-election bid in November against an opponent who quite frankly is not the […]

Looks like Arizona Republican candidate for US Congress Gabriela Saucedo Mercer is back in the news. This time, it is not about plagiarized quotes about food stamps. Now Saucedo Mercer, who is running against Democrat Raúl Grijalva, for Arizona's District 3, has things to say about "Middle Easterners." Here is what CBS Baltimore posted: “If […]

This morning NBC Latino's Sandra Lilley and Adrian Carrasquillo published on-the-record comments from Puerto Rico's Zoraida Fonalledas, the chairwoman of the GOP’s permanent organization committee, who said that yesterday's bizarre scene where chants of "USA! USA!" drowned her out as she stepped up to the podium at the Republican National Convention were not directed at her. […]

It was a bizarre scene that has gone viral on YouTube (over 146,000 views last time we checked), and as we reported yesterday, there were different accounts as to why Puerto Rico's Zoraida Fonelladas could not speak at the podium of the Republican National Convention yesterday in Tampa. Here is the clip that has gone […]

Now there are conflicting stories, one saying that the boos and chants  of “USA! USA!” by some Republican delegates today in Tampa were all about trying to seat some Ron Paul delegates after RNC chair Reince Preibus had called for a vote to unseat them. However, whether it was irony or just plain ignoranace, all […]

In 2007, when Joe Biden was trying to win the Democratic nomination for President, he was asked about immigration and the question of Mexico. This is what he said. In short, Mexico has its problems and its "dirt poor villages." And it is because of Mexico's problems that Mexicans want to "jump over a wall […]

On the first day when undocumented youth could begin to come out of the shadows due to the deferred action executive order issued by the Obama administration, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer issued her own executive order that would essentially denying state agencies to deny any undocumented youth applying for deferred action the ability to get […]

So it appears that the political distractions will continue. Now the US English-language media has started ripping up a story that Governor Mitt Romney shows a preference for vaginas because he was on a Spanish-speaking radio show in Miami and said that "mangoes, papayas, and mangoes" are his favorite kinds of  Cuban fruits. Granted, the […]

Let's just say that of everything that is in the following video below, the only thing that really made us laugh was the old lady that kept screaming "¡FUERA!" After that, we were a bit perplexed about what this whole Siesta Mundial was all about. Luckily we have smarter blogger friends and since Mi Blog […]

This is why we love our friends at Hispanic Tips, the best and most comprehensive Latino news curation site on the Internet today. Tonight Tomás Custer, the owner of Hispanic Tips and one of the nicest and most hard-working guys we know (he's been doing HT for years, way before it was "hip" to be […]

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 […]

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 […]

Leave it to pro-statehood and GOP darling Luis Fortuño to conveniently stop being a pro-US-statehooder during the London Olympics. The last few days, Fortuño, who is facing a tough re-election this November, has suddenly become one proud boricua during Puerto Rico’s Olympic efforts. Never mind the fact that as someone who fervently supports Puerto Rico […]

After we published the following image on Saturday, we sent out a tweet to the Indonesian ad agency that produced the image for clarification. Instead of getting a public response, this morning we received two direct messages from the agency's Twitter account: In the interest of following up and asking if we can share this […]