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UPDATE, 3:00 pm EST: The president of Telemundo PR has responded to our founder’s request for comment, calling the rumors “false and absurd.” He also threatened to notify his security team as a result of that request. This morning the Facebook page of Boicot a La Comay, the social media community that successfully campaigned to […]

Yesterday we shared story of Steve Lonegan, New Jersey GOP candidate for Senator, whose campaign got caught posting a bizarre racist tweet about Democratic candidate Cory Booker before the campaign deleted the tweet. Today Lonegan spoke about the incident: Republican U.S. Senate candidate Steve Lonegan said the message had “no racist intent at all.” “There’s […]

Proving once again that nothing on the Internet can be deleted, “a racially charged tweet issued by Steve Lonegan’s U.S. Senate campaign has drawn fire from Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s campaign as well as city leaders who say the Republican candidate is out of step with the values of New Jersey voters,” reports NJ.com. Here […]

And so it continues. First, Satan. Now, Latinos posing as Arab terrorists, or is it Arabs posing as Latino immigrants who are also terrorists? Who knows any more. Here is what ABC News reported today: A Republican congressmen this week used insensitive-sounding rhetoric while discussing immigration reform, but he did it while making the case […]

H/T to Adrian Carasquillo of Buzzfeed, who shared this story with us. Remember that “illegal immigrant” hunting permit that was being sold in Colorado and Wisconsin by some lame-ass company in Kansas? You know, this one? Looks like it caused a bit of a problem for Steve Kreiser, who was fired by Wisconsin Gov. Scott […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: We asked Blanca E. Vega to share her thoughts about the HuffPost Live “Dream 9” segment she appeared on this past week. Blanca is a currently a doctoral candidate at Columbia University, and is also the Director of the Higher Education Opportunity Program at Marymount Manhattan College. Her blog is called Race-work, Race-love and you […]

For all the numbers and debates about immigration, in the end, it is all about real stories. Here is one of those real stories.

While our site was down today due to a server outage, we used our Storify account to publish the following update about the #Dream9. [View the story “The Latest Updates from the #Dream9” on Storify]

According to local reports, 41 immigration rights activists were arrested today in Washington, DC. As CBS reports: Forty-one pro-immigrant activists were arrested outside the Capitol Thursday after blocking traffic while pushing for passage of comprehensive immigration legislation. After marching by the Capitol, the activists joined hands and sat down on Independence Avenue, a major street […]

Yesterday, the Congressional Appropriations Subcommittee approved the Obama administration’s $2.5 million budget for the Justice Department to oversee a federally-sponsored plebiscite in Puerto Rico, according to El Nuevo Día. The proposal states that the Justice Department must oversee a non-partisan voter education plan and  a plebiscite which must include several solutions to the status issue. […]

We caught this from The HuffPost, which picked it up from The Courthouse News. According to a CN post, Target was accused in a lawsuit of offending employees for a “multicultural tips” to inform store managers “that not all Hispanic employees eat tacos, dance to salsa or wear sombreros.” The CN stories continues: Robert Gonzalez, […]

Chile is one of the most restrictive abortion countries in the world. How restrictive? This is what Human Rights Watch says: Abortion has constituted a crime in Chile since 1874. The 1874 penal code, still in force, prohibits abortion in all cases. In 1931, a national health law (Código Sanitario) gave doctors the possibility to […]

Latino Rebels welcomes a new contributor to our page: Luis Marentes. This post was originally published on Luis’ blog. You can follow Luis on Twitter: @marentesluis. For most of 2013 I have carefully, perhaps obsessively, followed the debate around comprehensive immigration reform. Beginning with the emergence of the “Gang of 8” the process has been […]

Last week, we shared the story of gay bashing from Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, Archbishop of Santo Domingo, towards James “Wally” Brewster, an openly gay LGBT activist and current choice for US ambassador to the Dominican Republic. This week reports from the Caribbean nation show that the archbishop’s diocese is facing a child molestation […]

Fireworks and a barbeque on the 4th of July are as American as it gets (ok, maybe you’ll have to add an apple pie, but still). And while the celebrations are always fun, what is left behind afterwards is anything but. I was reminded of this by Raul Colon’s blog post yesterday on the trashy […]

With reports that new developments surrounding the in-custody death of David Sal Silva on May 8 in Bakersfield will possibly be made public next week, we wanted to take a moment today and summarize what we know so far about Silva’s death and what we don’t know. It has been a fast-moving and developing story, […]

Earlier this week, attorney John Tello, the lawyer representing the witnesses who had taken cell phone videos of the alleged police beating death of David Silva at the hands of Kern County and California Highway Patrol officers, had said that he was hoping to release one of the videos yesterday. However, instead of releasing the […]

The local news coverage about the alleged beating death of 33-year-old David Silva at the hands of Kern County and California Highway Patrol continues to provide timely updates of the incident. The latest story describes how eyewitnesses on May 8 believe that law enforcement officials are trying to cover up what happened that night. Here […]

In response to questions as to whether the U.S. State Department authorized and approved a Gangnam-inspired “USA Visa Style” parody video produced and uploaded to YouTube by the U.S. Embassy in Costa Rica, a State Department official provided us with the following statement: Our embassies and consulates around the world are always looking for new […]

As expected, the alleged beating death of David Silva has started getting the attention of the national media. Here is a local report out of Bakersfield: According to the local report, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said, “What we’re finding most of those, from what we can track, are from outside of Kern County, which is […]

Hey, it was only a few seconds, but The Daily Show did indeed talk about the Disney “Día de los Muertos” fiasco from two weeks ago. Here it is. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook