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Guatemala Troops, Police Break Up Caravan of Weary Migrants

VADO HONDO, Guatemala (AP) — Guatemalan police and soldiers on Monday broke up a group of hundreds of migrants who had spent two nights stuck at a roadblock on a rural highway.

  • Jan 18, 2021
  • 6:54 PM

None of Us Feel Latinx Enough (Except a Few White Ladies) (OPINION)

Ambiguity is sewn into the fabric of our identity. Which is why it’s so infuriating to see cases like Natasha Bannan’s. She gets the benefits with none of the doubt.

  • Jan 15, 2021
  • 4:47 PM

GLAAD and Puerto Rico Para Tod@s Call Out ‘Dangerous Trend of Anti-Trans Violence in Puerto Rico’

This is a “state of emergency for gender violence and hate crimes,” a Friday statement said.

  • Jan 15, 2021
  • 1:49 PM

America’s Favorite Terrorists (OPINION)

When in doubt, accuse the U.S. government of doing what it accuses other governments of doing. The rule goes double for Trump.

  • Jan 15, 2021
  • 1:11 PM

Mexico President Accuses DEA of Fabricating General’s Case

MEXICO CITY (AP) — One day after Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office announced it was dropping the drug trafficking case against its former defense secretary, Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration had “fabricated” the accusations against retired Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos.

  • Jan 15, 2021
  • 10:01 AM

Mexico Clears Ex-Defense Secretary of All US Accusations

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican prosecutors on Thursday declared completely unfounded the U.S. case against a former defense secretary arrested on drug charges in the United States and then returned under pressure from the Mexican government.

  • Jan 15, 2021
  • 8:45 AM

Honduran Migrants Trek North Toward Guatemalan Border

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AP) — Hundreds of migrants hoping to reach the U.S. border gathered outside a bus station in this Honduran city Thursday despite continued signs from Mexico and other Central American governments that they would not be allowed through.

  • Jan 15, 2021
  • 8:30 AM

Mexican President Mounts Campaign Against Social Media Bans

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president vowed Thursday to lead an international effort to combat what he considers censorship by social media companies that have blocked or suspended the accounts of U.S. President Donald Trump.

  • Jan 14, 2021
  • 5:19 PM

Country Before Party

Latino Rebels Radio: January 14, 2021

  • Jan 14, 2021
  • 4:51 PM

Prison Officials Flouted Legal Protocols in Transfers of MS-13 Leaders

Officials at the Salvadoran Prison Bureau ordered the emergency transfer of MS-13 leader Chino Milo from the maximum-security wing of Izalco Prison, where he is incarcerated, to the hospital in Zacatecoluca—despite the prison’s chief doctor’s claim that he had a clean bill of health.

  • Jan 14, 2021
  • 12:31 PM

National Lawyers Guild Issues Statement on Group’s Ex-President, a White Woman Who Pretended to Be Puerto Rican and Colombian

“Last week’s revelations of cultural appropriation by an NLG past president, Natasha Bannan, have elicited expressions of outrage, hurt, dismay, from Guild members as well from people across the country and the world,” the statement starts.

  • Jan 14, 2021
  • 10:01 AM

Trump Impeached After Capitol Riot in Historic Second Charge

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House for a historic second time Wednesday, charged with “incitement of insurrection” over the deadly mob siege of the Capitol in a swift and stunning collapse of his final days in office.

  • Jan 13, 2021
  • 5:32 PM

Thousands of Brazilians Who Won Elections as Black Candidates in 2020 Previously Ran for Office as White

Brazil is undergoing a strange racial reckoning after bombshell revelations that thousands of veteran politicians had changed their self-identified race between the 2016 and 2020 elections.

  • Jan 13, 2021
  • 3:37 PM

Cuba Condemns New US Sanctions, Hopes for Better With Biden

HAVANA (AP) — Cuba is convinced that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden does not believe the Caribbean island nation sponsors terrorism, a senior Cuban diplomat said Tuesday, a day after the outgoing U.S. administration returned Cuba to a terrorism list.

  • Jan 13, 2021
  • 1:50 PM

From His $1.2 Million Home, Disgraced Former Governor Rosselló of Puerto Rico Claims He Suffered PTSD

“I need to show the other side of that story. From my vantage point, everything I did, I did it for the people of Puerto Rico,” he told the Times.

  • Jan 13, 2021
  • 9:06 AM

White Nationalist Barbarians Stormed the Gates of the U.S. Capitol (OPINION)

While I can go on and on, I’ll say end with this: Trump must not only be removed from office, he must also be arrested and prosecuted for aiding and abetting an attempted coup against the United States of America.

  • Jan 12, 2021
  • 4:13 PM

Fired for Storming the Capitol? Why Most Workers Aren’t Protected for What They Do on Their Own Time (OPINION)

Can you be fired for joining a violent mob that storms the Capitol? Of course you can.

  • Jan 12, 2021
  • 12:37 PM

Immigrant Rights Groups Take Action in Anticipation of Biden’s Inauguration

“While the current administration has done nothing but vilify the immigrant community, spewing hatred in all forms throughout the last four years, immigrant leaders know that changing administrations has never been the solution,” Movimiento Cosecha said.

  • Jan 12, 2021
  • 12:13 PM

Hollywood Chingona (Latin[ish] Podcast)

Hector chats with Sharis Delgadillo, a journalist, videographer and producer whose recent claim to fame is as the researcher for Netflix’s ‘Selena the Series’

  • Jan 12, 2021
  • 10:13 AM

Trump Hits Cuba With New Terrorism Sanctions in Waning Days

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Monday re-designated Cuba as a “state sponsor of terrorism,” hitting the country with new sanctions that could hamstring President-elect Joe Biden’s promise to renew relations with the communist-governed island.

  • Jan 11, 2021
  • 7:46 PM

Puerto Rico Statehood Violates International Law (OPINION)

There is nothing progressive about that.

  • Jan 11, 2021
  • 5:42 PM

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