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Our friends at Pocho.com let us know today that the talented Hey Vato puppets have a new episode. Here it is:

Looks like the much-hyped Border Convoy trip into Texas has become an absolute disaster for the “Stop the Invasion” organizers. Yesterday, the group was in San Antonio, and according to local press, only six people showed up. A half-dozen people from the San Antonio area gathered to hear radio host Pete Santilli talk about illegal immigration […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: José Ángel N. wrote to Latino Rebels and gave us permission to publish this letter. It has also appeared here and here. You can visit José Ángel at his blog. July 25, 2014 Dear President Obama, I know you will probably never read this letter. But, as a good Mexican, I’ve been taught to […]

This doesn’t need much explanation. Just sit back and smile. Post by 94.1 FM Dallas.

Remember earlier this year when Nate Cohn of The New York Times let the world know that a significant number of U.S. Latinos were becoming more “white” by misrepresenting a study that had yet to be finalized? This week that study was finally published. Here it is: America's Churning Races: Race and Ethnic Response Changes […]

Estela de Carlotto, the leader of Argentina’s human rights organization “Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo,” has finally found her missing grandson after more than 35 years of searching. Her daughter Laura disappeared during the last dictatorship and gave birth to a son, Guido Carlotto, in a military hospital on June 26, 1978. Hoy Estela estará […]

On Monday President Barack Obama promised to bypass Congress and use all of his legal powers as president to fix the nation’s immigration system. With tens of thousands of unaccompanied kids from drug war-torn Central America showing up at the U.S. border, creating what President Obama has labeled an “urgent humanitarian situation” —plus Speaker John Boehner […]

You saw the pictures and tweets, now see some of the video from today’s anti-migrant protest in Murrieta, California. For more, read the story at The Desert Sun. Some more local reports from San Diego add more details: San Diego, California News Station – KFMB Channel 8 – cbs8.com San Diego, California News Station – […]

[View the story “This Racism Happened in Murietta, California Today” on Storify]

Bronx Writers Center director and Rebelde Charlie Vázquez sat with Daniel José Older at a Brooklyn restaurant to discuss —among other things— the spirit world in storytelling, the importance of building community and how the publishing industry needs to restructure its acquisitions and marketing strategies if it wishes to engage more Latino readers.   CV: […]

You know who Joe T. Hodo is, the hilarious satirical character whose Frack U video went viral in Mexico late last year. Last week, Hodo (played by Gregory Berger) was invited to appear on Mexico’s Milenio TV. Berger sent us a clip of Hodo’s appearance, and yes it is hilarious, because you don’t really know […]

Editor’s Note: A previous version of this piece was published on Dr. Rodríguez’s blog. Nate Cohn in The New York Times opened a racial pandora’s box with his article on the whitening of Latinos. He received responses from a number of interested observers of Latino issues—from Latino Rebels to academics such as Amitai Etzioni and Manuel Pastor. Today […]

This has to be a joke. We just got this tweet from a follower: @latinorebels You see this BS?! Two-time GOP loser changes name to Cesar Chavez… http://t.co/G3PrKKcMuW http://t.co/OR2LlvHTgi — Malena (@12thLady) June 2, 2014 So we clicked on the story. Apparently… it’s true. Just look at the ballot. Here is what the Capitol Times story […]

When I wrote an opinion piece on May 21 basically questioning an incredibly misleading piece by Nate Cohn of The New York Times’ “Upshot” blog, I never would have thought that 1) Latino Rebels would still be covering the story; 2) The Times would not yet respond to my emails about Cohn’s reporting; and 3) […]

I spent Memorial Day weekend in Tijuana, Mexico doing the same thing I did the weekend before, honoring U.S. military veterans. The sound of that still sounds strange to me, but unfortunately it is what it is. Tijuana is a place I’ve been to many times, but this time it was way different for me […]

Yesterday, The New York Times’ “Upshot” blog announced the following to the world: “More Hispanics Declaring Themselves White.” The piece, written by Nate Cohn, included the animated image of a figure shifting from silver grey to ivory white and this lede paragraph: “Hispanics are often described as driving up the nonwhite share of the population. […]

UPDATE, 8:15pmET, May 22, 2014: I had an email exchange with one of the study’s co-authors today, and she wrote me that Cohn’s inferences about the data were his and not her research group’s conclusions. She also wrote that the study was still not public, nor was it finalized. Read more here. In the ongoing […]

This afternoon, Boston’s Spanish-language El Planeta newspaper tweeted the following to us: @latinorebels Boston Herald insists on using backward yellow journalism to cover immigration #WTF http://t.co/ooVTUATv3S … … — El Planeta (@elplanetaboston) May 21, 2014 The link lead to an editorial written in Spanish, where El Planeta lambasted today’s front page of The Boston Herald: […]

And the cultural appropriation hits keep on coming. Today, we present the Zapatista Burrito Bar from the city of Newcastle in clueless old England. We guess the locals love it, since a second location is already being built. According to its Twitter profile, it likes to say “HOLA, GRINGOS” and encourages patrons to “GRAB A […]

The following video is raw, but speaks for itself. It has gone viral, having been deleted from Facebook, but eventually showing up on YouTube. It happened on May 20 in Salinas, California. It shows two police officers chasing what appears to be an unarmed man. Eventually the police officer fire shots at the man, killing […]

We don’t need to be on a cup. That’s not the point. The point is actually a box. A school district in Arizona can box up and physically remove from classrooms seven books in a Mexican-American studies program, and then place the rest on a watch list of literature not to be taught. The point is the […]