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You're kidding us, right? We got the following image form @RayoSaucedo today on Twitter. Here it is: From what we can tell, the image is trying to sell Darktarin Foot Powder. So what better way to do this than put a "sleeping Mexican" in the middle of the scene and have everyone else cover their faces. […]

Granted, Lola's Burrito Joint in Jacksonville has since changed the name of its original 'Wetback Willie" to "Wet Willie" after receiving criticism from customers on Facebook for the original name. Local news did a piece about Lola's this week, and the piece has gone around the Internet, appearing on several outlets such as HuffPost. It […]

Last night, after facing several days of controversy surrounding racist (and bitherism) tweets she made about President Obama, Heidi Wys Toro, a top adviser (and Chief of Staff) to Jenniffer González, Puerto Rico's Speaker of the House, tweeted out several apologies, deleted the tweets that got her into trouble in the first place, and then […]

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 […]

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 […]

Maybe some of Univision's affiliates need a little history lesson about Puerto Rico. Today, July 25, Puerto Rico celebrates Constitution Day, the day that commemorates Puerto Rico's Commonwealth (some would say "Colonial") relationship with the United States. Puerto Rico's Commonwealth government was established 60 years ago in 1952, and for those that really need to […]

This is pretty simple. If you are going to start providing manuals and instructions to your Spanish-speaking customers, get a human editor. It Is amazing what would happen if you just had someone who knows the nuances of Spanish actually review your copy before you print your materials. It isn't the end of the world, […]

Word out of Puerto Rico is that the local media is now starting to report and get comments from the players involved in a bizarre Facebook incident that had the office of Puerto Rican Resident Commissioner Pedro Peirluisi—a non-voting member of the US House of Representatives—block and censor LatinoRebels.com founder Julio Ricardo Varela, an active […]