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In case you missed this earlier today, here is what Senator Ted Cruz said on Meet the Press about the whole Donald Trump fiasco. I salute Donald Trump for focusing on the need to address illegal immigration. The Washington cartel doesn’t want to address that. The Washington cartel doesn’t believe we need to secure the […]

Ted Cruz and Jorge Ramos last week on Ramos’s Fusion show. This was awkward. Here is a longer segment.

We are going to miss Jon Stewart, but we do want to thank him for getting this one done before the end of his run on The Daily Show. The Daily ShowDaily Show Full Episodes,  More Daily Show Videos,  Comedy Central Full Episodes

This needs very little explanation. Just watch this 57-second clip and realize that in the end, Donald Trump has no flipping clue about anything. (The Occupy Democrats YouTube video has over 200,000 views, but this Facebook share has over 14 million views and growing.) Mexican Laborer Has A Message For Donald Trump! Posted by Eman […]

This weekend, statehooders in Puerto Rico will be celebrating the 4th of July and the independence of the United States. There will be American flags all over and fireworks will light up the sky like every town in the 50 states. I think there is something deeply wrong with that. Some have called it the […]

Editor’s Note: A longer version of this op-ed appears on the author’s site. On April 27 of this year, Latino Rebels published my op-ed How to End Puerto Rico’s Public Debt…Right Now. The central solution presented in that article was eliminating the Jones Act (aka the Cabotage Law) in Puerto Rico. In other words, Puerto Rico must […]

“Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed.” So reads what is arguably the most emulated political statement in the history of the Western world, whose proclamation in July 1776 Americans celebrate annually as the birth of their republic. In […]

Puerto Ricans are crestfallen this week, walking around “con el moco caído” as they say. Governor Alejandro García Padilla announced that the island had finally run out of cash. In response, Washington just shrugged its shoulders. Last Sunday the governor informed The New York Times that Puerto Rico’s $72 billion dollar debt was unpayable. The […]

It began with a bid for the presidency from yet another Republican candidate that will never be elected. I’m referring to Donald Trump in this instance, though you may have assumed otherwise. There are more and more options to choose from these days. However, this particular candidate has stood out from the rest for comments […]

Donald Trump has had a really bad week. First, NBC. Then, Macy’s. This Buzzfeed article, too. And now, even Emmitt Smith is out. Emmitt Flipping Smith. The Trump fallout continues to spiral, and today, Trump (with the help of Breitbart and The Daily Caller) is now so desperate, that he is aligning himself with President […]

Just days after Univision decided to cut business ties with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for derogatory comments made against Mexicans and as the Latino digital space began to call for NBCUniversal (owner of Telemundo) to follow Univision’s lead, this morning NBCUniversal issued the following statement: At NBC, respect and dignity for all people are […]

UPDATE: NBCUniversal has terminated its business relationship with Donald Trump. It is the June 16 Donald Trump quote that has the Latino digital space speaking out in ways we have never seen before, including an online petition calling for NBC to end its ties with Trump (now at about 200K signatures and growing): When Mexico sends […]

Even though National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts chairman Felix Sanchez was bumped off the live broadcast of CNN’s “Reliable Sources” this morning due to breaking news, CNN still made Felix’s segment available online. Here is the interview Felix had with Brian Stelter about why he and other U.S. Latino leaders think NBC should cut […]

Whatever happened to the “act of love” Jeb Bush when it comes to immigration? Yesterday at a Bush event in Las Vegas, DREAMer Erika Castro (one of six DREAMers who met Hillary Clinton earlier this year) had a chance to ask the Republican candidate his thoughts about Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Mi Familia […]

Here is the full video of the words President Obama gave yesterday at the eulogy for Reverend Clement Pinckney and eight other members of Emanuel AME, who were killed in Charleston, South Carolina, on June 17, 2015.

UPDATE, June 29,2015: NBCUniversal has terminated its relationship with Donald Trump. This morning the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA), a coalition of the country’s most prominent Latino organizations, released a statement applauding Univision for severing its business relationship with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump after reaction to Trump’s comments about Mexicans reached a fever pitch […]

DAJABÓN, Dominican Republic—On a recent afternoon in this tense border town, a hub for the flow of goods and people between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Haitian immigrants and their Dominican-born children were preparing for the worst: the mass deportations they’d been hearing about for months from railing Dominican politicians and, especially, the local media. […]

Listen, we all know that the Latino digital sphere is going crazy about what Univision did to Donald Trump today and also what Univision anchor Jorge Ramos wrote earlier this week. So it doesn’t surprise us that news about the Department of Homeland Security has gotten lost in the social media shuffle. What follows ia full statement published […]

A few things you need to know. Phillip Arroyo, the young Puerto Rican law student who appears in the video below, is a new contributor to Latino Rebels. Similar to what I have been writing about for years, Phillip believes that the only way to solve Puerto Rico’s status issue (mired in decades of mediocre […]

You all remember Rep. Don Young, right? How can you not forget this? Looks like Congressman Young is back, but this time the Alaska Republican is now visiting Puerto Rico to raise money days before he is scheduled to hold a hearing about the island’s political status. As POLITICO reported last week: Alaska Republican Don […]

Portraits of revolutionaries hang in our homes. Biographies of their lives fill our bookcases. Their public displays of courage against the injustices of the day inspire us to be eternally vigilant. But all too often our role models, especially of men for men, are largely divorced from family life in the popular imagination. Think about […]