Politics

EDITOR’S NOTE: While organizations such as The Heritage Foundation tell the American press that Puerto Rico needs to worry about is own problems, many real voices from Puerto Rico would beg to differ. Here is another perspective. Puerto Rico faces the most serious threat to its continued existence as a functional society in nearly a […]

Talk about bizarre Latino outreach. As La Opinión reports, singer/actress María Conchita Alonso, appeared in a YouTube expressing her support for Tim Donnelly, a controversial Tea Party state assemblyman running for governor of California. Watch the video. It is trying to be funny. The response to the video has caused some online Latinos to do […]

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In case anyone in the Obama Administration wants to know how it can stop record deportations, the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) published a post that explains it all: Whether or not Congress enacts immigration reform in 2014, the status quo is unacceptable. More than 1,000 immigrants are separated from their families and communities each […]

Let’s say this together to Georgia Republican Rep. Paul Broun, who is running for Senate: #NoMames. Listen (link here). Read: The only way Georgia is going to change is if we have all these illegal aliens in here in Georgia, give them the right to vote. It would be morally wrong, it would be illegal […]

Today Maryland state delegate Curt Anderson of Baltimore City (D) finally addressed comments he made this weekend about his being “amazed at how many Mexicans” were working on a city school. Here is what Bryan P. Sears of The Daily Record reported today when Anderson was asked about the comments: “It was a poor choice […]

Little did we expect that hedge fund and now Puerto Rico expert Larry McDonald would actually respond to some of our critiques that he wrote in a Forbes opinion/business pitch that has gone viral and led to a bizarre and telling Twitter convo between McDonald and Eduardo Bhatia, the president of Puerto Rico’s Senate and […]

Latino leaders must begin leveraging their power to speak out against widespread imprisonment It is 2013, over 40 years after President Nixon launched the War on Drugs in response to conservative demands for “law and order” in the post-Civil Rights era. Every president since has intensified the government’s war efforts, enlisting Congress, the judiciary, and […]

Now everyone in media knows that the Forbes.com editorial model is not truly transparent journalism, but that isn’t stopping the incredibly raw reaction to a viral January 3 opinion piece by contributor Larry McDonald about Puerto Rico’s incredibly messed up economic crisis. You can read McDonald’s entire 6-page column here, but if you don’t want […]

We got this story tip from our friends at @latinoticias: Anderson ‘amazed at how many Mexicans’ working on city school | Eye on Annapolis http://t.co/YDNdU8zjPn cc @latinorebels — Latino News (@latinoticias) January 6, 2014 So we checked it out. Here’s the scoop coming from Maryland: Del. Curt Anderson is coming under fire by a conservative […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: As a complement to our piece about how the U.S. media has overlooked parts of the pot debate, writer Carolina Drake shares her thoughts. Drug legalization is not as stoner-centered as you think once we look at both sides of the supply and demand transaction, and consider that legalization in the US could […]

So earlier this week, the folks at Pew Research published findings of a fall study it ran about how Americans view other countries. The results, sadly, did not surprise us. According to the survey, Canada tops the list with an 81% favorability rating, followed closely by Great Britain (79%) and Japan (70%). In the bottom […]

So if you really think poor taste would go away on Twitter in 2014, think again. We already read our first #NoMames tweet of 2014, and it’s from the Twitter profile of Ana Navarro, a CNN political contributor and GOP campaign veteran. This is her profile: And this is her tweet: Navarro, if you may […]

Pendejo Tour founder, Iowa Rep. Steve King, is looking to start his 2014 Pendejo Tour the same way he started in 2013—by being a major pendejo. We will explain: We got the following tweet tonight from a Twitter follower: Check this out! Look a 2. Got it in the mail #NoMames #immigrationreform @latinorebels pic.twitter.com/dEGViz75rO — […]

You HAVE to love the gall of Senator Ted Cruz (aka Rafael Edward Cruz), Republican senator from Texas and Canadian citizen. This entire year Cruz has had to dodge his Canadian birth and his dad’s illegal entry into the United States from Cuba while at the same time being one of the country’s most harshest […]

In a story published yesterday by Mexico’s La Jornada, Subcomandante Marcos shared several thoughts and reflections as the Zapatista movement in Chiapas celebrates its 20th anniversary. Here are just a few of his words in Spanish with an English translation by us: La rebeldía no es patrimonio exclusivo de los neozapatistas. Lo es de la […]

Para los que leyeron la traducción al inglés que hizo José Santana acerca de un correo electrónico criticando al autor Junot Díaz, le pasamos la versión original en español que Santana compartió con nosotros. Esta versión también se encuentra aquí. (Observación del editor: Errores ortográficos y mecánicos son del autor y no de nosotros.) “La Soberanía […]

Remember José Santana? He was the Dominican government official who sent a scathing email to author Junot Díaz about the whole Haiti-Dominican Republic citizenship controversy. The email accused Díaz of being a “fake and overrated pseudo intellectual” who doesn’t even speak Spanish well. Santana emailed us a response to our story and had it translated […]

Last week senators Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) sent a letter to Pedro Pierluisi, Puerto Rico’s Resident Commissioner, expressing that any future process chosen to change the status of Puerto Rico must not contain either Commonwealth or an Enhanced Commonwealth, advocated by different sectors of the ruling Popular Democratic Party (PPD). The past […]

Here’s one we missed from December 15. Leonel Fernández, former president of the Dominican Republic (twice), gave a speech in La Vega and said some interesting things (given the context of the whole DR-Haiti debacle): “Today Dominicans can tell Nelson Mandela that this is the first country where there was an uprising of black slaves, […]

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