Politics

In an email obtained by Latino Rebels, José Santana, the Executive Director of the Dominican Republic’s International Advisory Committee on Science and Technology, an organization created by former president Leonel Fernández, lambasted author Junot Díaz for critical comments about current Dominican politicians, specifically in how they are using the current controversy surrounding Dominicans of Haitian […]

Last week Dominican writer Giovanny Cruz wrote a rather scathing and nationalistic op-ed in notimundord.com basically slamming fellow Dominican writers Junot Díaz and Julia Álvarez for writing a letter to The New York Times criticizing the Dominican government for its recent ruling on citizenship for Haitians. The October 29 Times letter, co-signed by Díaz, Álvarez, Mark Kurlansky […]

This 2012 gem was found by Upworthy. This is Peter Christ, co-founder of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. Start at 3:06, when he says, “We are out there enforcing morality when we enforce drug laws.” Truth.

Remember early in November when New Jersey governor Chris Christie was being praised for being a Republican that was able to garner the Latino vote in an election? The Daily Beast, for example, reminded readers that right before Christie’s re-election sweep, he had changed his position on New Jersey’s version of a DREAM Act, making […]

This in from the YouTube page of closethesoa, or Close the School of the Americas: The School of the Americas is the Pentagon’s flagship training school for Latin American militaries. The SOA has trained hundreds of torturers, military dictators and human rights abusers. The purpose of the school is to maintain U.S. domination over Latin […]

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Ricardo Trade , Executive Director of Brazil’s Organizational Committee for the 2014 World Cup, recently gave an interview in which he spoke about the impact of nationwide protests that have occurred in Brazil since June have had on the event’s planning. He had the following to say, via The Raw Story: “The protests are democratic in […]

The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) has launched a Veterans Day postcard petition to demand Congress to pass “commonsense immigration reform” legislation to honor the service of Latino veterans. The postcard, which reads “This Veterans Day Honor Them By Honoring Those They Fight For,” was distributed to LULAC’s 130,000 members to fill out, […]

You HAVE to be kidding us. Guess not. This is from local Houston news. We have now seen everything.

Yesterday we shared story of Steve Lonegan, New Jersey GOP candidate for Senator, whose campaign got caught posting a bizarre racist tweet about Democratic candidate Cory Booker before the campaign deleted the tweet. Today Lonegan spoke about the incident: Republican U.S. Senate candidate Steve Lonegan said the message had “no racist intent at all.” “There’s […]

Proving once again that nothing on the Internet can be deleted, “a racially charged tweet issued by Steve Lonegan’s U.S. Senate campaign has drawn fire from Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s campaign as well as city leaders who say the Republican candidate is out of step with the values of New Jersey voters,” reports NJ.com. Here […]

And so it continues. First, Satan. Now, Latinos posing as Arab terrorists, or is it Arabs posing as Latino immigrants who are also terrorists? Who knows any more. Here is what ABC News reported today: A Republican congressmen this week used insensitive-sounding rhetoric while discussing immigration reform, but he did it while making the case […]

While our site was down today due to a server outage, we used our Storify account to publish the following update about the #Dream9. [View the story “The Latest Updates from the #Dream9” on Storify]

According to local reports, 41 immigration rights activists were arrested today in Washington, DC. As CBS reports: Forty-one pro-immigrant activists were arrested outside the Capitol Thursday after blocking traffic while pushing for passage of comprehensive immigration legislation. After marching by the Capitol, the activists joined hands and sat down on Independence Avenue, a major street […]

Yesterday, the Congressional Appropriations Subcommittee approved the Obama administration’s $2.5 million budget for the Justice Department to oversee a federally-sponsored plebiscite in Puerto Rico, according to El Nuevo Día. The proposal states that the Justice Department must oversee a non-partisan voter education plan and  a plebiscite which must include several solutions to the status issue. […]

Chile is one of the most restrictive abortion countries in the world. How restrictive? This is what Human Rights Watch says: Abortion has constituted a crime in Chile since 1874. The 1874 penal code, still in force, prohibits abortion in all cases. In 1931, a national health law (Código Sanitario) gave doctors the possibility to […]

Last week, we shared the story of gay bashing from Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, Archbishop of Santo Domingo, towards James “Wally” Brewster, an openly gay LGBT activist and current choice for US ambassador to the Dominican Republic. This week reports from the Caribbean nation show that the archbishop’s diocese is facing a child molestation […]

In response to questions as to whether the U.S. State Department authorized and approved a Gangnam-inspired “USA Visa Style” parody video produced and uploaded to YouTube by the U.S. Embassy in Costa Rica, a State Department official provided us with the following statement: Our embassies and consulates around the world are always looking for new […]

Jason Richwine, who resigned last Friday from The Heritage Foundation over his “IQ and Immigration Policy” dissertation from 2009, went on record today with The Washington Examiner to defend his work and speak about the reaction it received (for example, Google “Jason Richwine racist” and see the millions of entries you will get). Here are just are […]

NISGUA (Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala) filed the following report of the genocide trial of former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt and ex-intelligence chief Mauricio Rodriguez Sánchez in Guatemala City. They have given us permission to republish all their reports about this historic trial. NISGUA continues ongoing coverage of the trial in Guatemala of Efraín Rios Montt and […]

We got another story today from the HuffPost about Enidris Siurano Rodríguez, a 15-year-old 10th grader from Puerto Rico who “decided not to participate during the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag in her Maryland high school, and stayed silent and seated during that time as a way to protest.” The story quotes Siruano: […]