Politics

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 […]

Leave it to our friends at Cuéntame to produce some very high-quality content that tries to educate and inform. Here is their latest video, "This is What Happens When Latinos Don't Vote." For more information, visit LatinosDontVote.com. Here is what their YouTube channel says: The stakes in this election for the Latino community are at […]

Who said good things cannot come out of situations? A pro-immigration GOP group that was calling for Eva Longoria's resignation as co-chair of the Obama for America campaign after she faced a social media controversy this week, just released a press release today saying that the group, Café con Leche Republicans, has accepted Longoria's apology and […]

Yes, the War on Drugs has been a failure. Now what do we do? (H/T to Online Criminal Justice Degree)

Today, Mitt Romney's "Hispanderfiesta Radar" was on high alert. With just 50 days left to go until the presidential elections and new poll numbers show that the Romney campaign has done very little to improve his standing among US Latino voters (especially US Latina voters), today was clearly a "Hispanic" day for the campaign. First […]

On September 16, Mexican Independence Day, a hacker group called Mexican Cyber Protest occupied several of the country's pages to protest what they feel were the fraudulent July 1 presidential that declared Enrique Peña Nieto as the winner. The group posted the following image on the sites it hacked: The hack gained global media attention. […]

This past Thursday, President Obama sat down with Spain's Agencia Efe. The full interview can be found in Spanish here. We have provided Spanish and English transcripts of the two sections that we think would interest our readers: what the President had to say about immigration reform and about his administration's relationship with Latin America. Here […]

So the Mitt Romney Latino strategy continues with the latest Spanish ad that features his son Craig (looking like a Univision soap opera star) telling Spanish-speaking voters that his father Mitt believes in immigration and will work to find a bipartisan solution to reform the immigration system. Titled "País de inmigrantes," the ad mentions nothing […]

Last night we submitted questions to Gabriela Saucedo Mercer, Republican candidate for Arizona's 3rd Congressional district, regarding the following Facebook post. We followed up today with a piece that showed that two of Saucedo Mercer's FB posts in the last week were lifted from other sources that weren't credited. The questions we submitted were these: Can […]

Last night, we published a story about Gabriela Saucedo Mercer, Republican candidate for Arizona's 3rd Congressional District, who posted the following analogy on her official Facebook page: The post went viral pretty quickly. By 12:30 AM EST, it was deleted. However, what can be seen as another case of partisan politics gone wild on social […]

UPDATE: The post mentioned in this story was removed from Facebook around 12:30 AM EST July 16, 2012. Tonight the following Facebook post from the official page of Gabriela Saucedo Mercer, a Republican candidate for Congress in Arizona's District 3, has started to go viral and is getting mostly negative and angry attention for the […]

Here we go again. Just a week after tens of thousands (can we say hundreds now?) of Mexicans took to the streets for the first #MegaMarcha demonstrations to proclaim that the country's July 1 presidential elections were fraudulent, a second series of marches occurred again yesterday. For those who don't know the full story, here […]

In light of last week's Supreme Court ruling on Arizona's controversial SB 1070 law, the American Civil Liberties Union released a video about how to people should know your rights. Basically, just be quiet when asked about your status. Silencio. No digas nada. Here is the Spanish one: And here is the English one.

For those who thought that #YoSoy132 and the "Mexican Spring" would disappear now that the Mexican elections concluded on July 1, think again. A YouTube channel called AnonElecciones (AnonElections) has produced two videos the last two days suggesting that voter fraud and other repressive measures occurred during the elections. Enrique Peña Nieto, the candidate of Mexico's […]

Even though the results will continued to be counted tonight and not fully confirmed until Wednesday, Mexico's Institute of Federal Elections (IFE) announced tonight at 12:15 am EST that Enrique Peña Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was leading in the country's official "Quick Count." Tonight's results included 7,500 voting locations that are a […]

Even as votes continue to be counted tonight, the official website of Enrique Peña Nieto has already announced that Peña Nieto has already won the presidency, returning the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to power after ruling Mexico for 71 years, from 1929-2000. Major outlets are reporting a win for the PRI, based on exit polls but […]

Jason Mattera is an ambush personality. We couldn't say that he is an actual journalist, just a personality who has made a career of catching the DC establishment off guard and selling it as "reporting." It really isn't journalism, but that isn't the point of this post. Mattera, who is of Puerto Rican and Italian […]

Here is what Iowa Rep. Steve King (R) had to say about immigrants and America yesterday. #NoMames, Rep. King. Basically, the logic is this: hey, I know how to pick the best dogs and I want to pick the friskiest dog out there. That is what our immigration policy should be like. Let's get rid of […]

Looks like Arizona's Secretary of State Ken Bennett finally got the memo about the whole birther craziness. Less than a week after saying that it could be "possible" that President Obama would not be on the state's ballot in November, Bennett went on radio again to say the following: “If I embarrassed the state, I […]

Here is a video you won't see on any mainstream outlets. You will not see it on Televisa in Mexico or any other network. That is why you have Vimeo. From May 19, 2002 in Mexico City. #MarchAntiEPN, #YoSoy132, and #MarchaYoSoy132. Look them up.

There is no other possible explanation as to why Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett has gone on record to say that it would be "possible" to officially remove President Obama from the Arizona ballot since Bennett has yet to get a yes or no answer from Hawaii and he is concerned that he hasn't gotten […]