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Original version here. It’s a far too familiar scene happening everyday all over the country: a person is arrested, incarcerated, possibly deported, for a non-violent drug related offense, and a family is torn apart. Thanks to the failed war on drugs, that person is most likely an African-American or a Latino even though whites use […]

Recently, a controversy about Latinos and racial classifications has led to heated debate based on a toxic mix of incomplete conclusions from research and rampant speculation. A draft presentation at the Population Association of America (PAA) chronicled by a Pew Research senior writer was then picked up by Nate Cohn, writing for The New York […]

On Sunday, Salvador Sánchez Cerén, who went by the nom de guerre “Comandante Leonel González” during El Salvador’s 12-year civil war, was adorned with the presidential sash as he officially assumed the office of the presidency. Gripping the sides of the podium with both hands, he addressed the nearly six thousand guests, including 13 foreign leaders, invited […]

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 […]

It’s been a rough few days for immigration advocates on the ground. After more than a year of successfully building pressure on the President to step in and turn around his disastrous deportation record through executive action, we forced a full review of the White House’ immigration enforcement programs. With less than a month before […]

We got the following tip via an email from a follower who said, “WTF.” Looks like the city of Coachella in California (home to Coachellafest) is going on a massive appropriation binge for Día de los Muertos, with the creation of Día de los Muertos USA. We guess organizers forgot about the whole Disney social […]

This month Rebel Diaz released another video off its Radical Dilemma album. Directed by Sense Hernandez, “La Patrulla” features King Capo. This bilingual collaboration “speaks to the issue of police violence, hyper vigilance, and mass incarceration in our communities.” You can access “La Patrulla” here. And while you’re at it, give @rebeldiaz, @kingcapo718 and @sensehernandez […]

As they say: put something up on the Internet and someone will be bound to eventually find it. Such is the case of the initial presentation about race and identity presented in the first week of May at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, the same presentation which prematurely and erroneously concluded […]

Today marks the 33rd anniversary of the incarceration of Oscar López Rivera, a Puerto Rican considered by many to be one of the longest-held political prisoners in the Western Hemisphere. What follows is the original message in English López Rivera shared with Puerto Rico’s El Nuevo Día: To love the homeland costs nothing, what would be costly is if we […]

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“These will be the final words that I speak in public before I cease to exist.” So begins the moving communiqué from Zapatista leader Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos. In the newly-released statement (available here in English), Marcos gives a brief account of the Zapatistas’ history, which he has had a leading role in since the armed […]

A little Washington DC media elitism for you today? In a piece today by POLITICO’s Dylan Byers titled, “Anchor with attitude: Jorge Ramos fights for immigration reform,” the condescending side of the English-language mainstream media was clear. What was supposed to be a profile of why Ramos has arguably become one of the most influential […]

We got this from @hispanictips. Apparently, Korean pop star Hyorin of the group Sistar is getting all Latin in a new ad campaign for “Maté Tea of the Sun,” owned by Coca Cola. (Yes, we know that it is not “maté” in Spanish, it’s “mate.”) Here is some of the translated copy to English: Hyorin […]

Like our founder wrote last week, quoting Spiderman, “With great power comes great responsibility.” Such is the case about about The New York Times and how writer Nate Cohn irresponsibly reported news from a study he never actually read. Now MSNBC’s Chris Hayes decided to go all-in with Cohn’s piece and the results were disastrous. […]

This happened yesterday. Watch. Fusion’s Jordan Fabian and yes, Jorge Ramos, have the rest of the story here.

“The Obama Administration has an unprecedented opportunity to usher in significant progress using its executive authority at a time when public opinion on Cuba policy has shifted toward greater engagement with the Cuban people while continuing to pressure the Cuban government on human rights.” So states an open letter to President Barack Obama, signed by […]