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I hear crying in the next room and I stop writing. It’s my nanny. I was sitting at my computer writing, which is my daily ritual. But I think that it’s more like a ritual that monks do. More like the monks in the Middle Ages, like a flogging, really. Rough leather whipped on my […]

Today in a press conference, President Obama took two questions from Maria Peña of La Opinión about the immigration reform debate: Did Peña’s second question even get answered?

In a United States that is becoming more diverse every day, new questions about race, ethnicity and identity regularly appear in mainstream publications and discussions. Central to these debates is the country’s growing Latino population. These days, it seems every editorial outlet in the country has to write about Latinos (demographics! advertising!), even when those outlets’ Latino […]

Meet Florida Senate President Don Gaetz (R), who earlier today said the following about a proposed state bill (SB 1400) that would give undocumented students the ability to pay in-state tuition rates at Florida’s public universities and colleges: To give that quote some more context, here is more of what Gaetz said about SB 1400, […]

If anyone can figure out the spin that White House’s Cecilia Muñoz is trying to weave in her interview with Fusion’s Leon Krauze, please let us know. Here is the full video of what Muñoz had to say about the latest in the whole immigration debate: Read more here at Fusion. Our take, the White […]

Last year, LatinoRebels.com ran a three-part series by local Bakersfield journalist/writer Nicholas Belardes about the in-custody death of David Sal Silva. This weekend’s news that no charges would be filed by the local district attorney led to the following epilogue by Nicholas. The previous posts in the series are linked here: “Part One: Culture of […]

Social media is an interesting medium. Even though LatinoRebels.com had gotten the United Farm Workers to issue a statement in 2012 about its relationship with Budweiser, new users to Twitter are basically having serious issues with Budweiser’s sponsorship of Diego Luna’s “César Chávez” film. The latest is about a video Budweiser posted a few days […]

Just watch. For more, go to NotOneMoreDeportation.com, Puente Arizona or follow #Not1More on Twitter.

The drug war has increasingly become a war against migrant communities. It fuels racial profiling, border militarization, violence against immigrants, intrusive government surveillance and, especially, widespread detentions and deportations.  Media and politicians have tried to convince us that everyone who gets deported is a violent criminal, a terrorist or a drug kingpin. But a newly released, first-of-its-kind report […]

Before we talk about Little Caesar’s annoyingly awful “Combo Mambo” commercial, we would love to ask the pizza chain if they plan to do another commercial showing off other “vintage” music styles? Maybe one inspired by this video? That’s our point. As “hip” as the following “Combo Mambo” ad is to the masses, it brings […]

UPDATE, November 23, 2015: Thompson revisited Big Papi again. And we haven’t changed our opinion. Now we REALLY know that NBC’s Saturday Night Live does not give a crap when it comes to mocking Latinos. A few weeks back, we saw a non-Latina (Cecily Strong) fail with perhaps one of the most unfunny loud Latina […]

Watch the following video in this post. It shows Illinois state Democratic Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia (pictured below) debating charter schools and education reform last Wednesday. At one one point in the video, Rep. Chapa LaVia (from Aurora) said the following: “Listen to me, minorities. I’m over here, because we’re all over on this side, […]

A few days ago, one of our Twitter followers (Tomás Vera) raised an interesting point: @dadkind @McDonalds seriously? No way, do you have a link? That is crazy. — Latino Rebels (@latinorebels) April 5, 2014 We kept tweeting back and forth: @dadkind ok! once you get it pass it on we will looks as well! […]

It has been close to a year since the in-custody death of David Sal Silva at the hands of Kern Country deputies occurred in Bakersfield, and yesterday the district attorney who had promised to conduct an independent investigation about the Silva’s death said that no charges will be filed in the case. According to reports, […]

By now you’ve probably seen the OC Weekly video of a Santa Ana school police officer pinning a 14-year-old boy to the ground with a chokehold. Understandably most people find the video disturbing and difficult to watch. I, on the other hand, love it. It’s as close to a perfect video capturing the ugliness in […]

What follows is an executive summary published today by the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) containing the findings of a Blue Ribbon Commission that NDLON helped to form. As it states on its site, “former and currently undocumented immigrant leaders formed a Blue Ribbon Commission to perform an independent review and present its recommendations […]

Listen to this all the way to the very end. Yeah, this is the song he was asking for: By the way, this video is making the rounds and people are talking. We don’t know where this clip came from (the DR? yeah it’s the DR), but who cares. It is awesome. For those who […]

UPDATE: We changed the head since it suggested that Border Patrol agent entered the church as well. That is not clear, but what is clear is this: undocumented immigrants were in a church, local sheriffs found them and then BP showed up. This story got our attention when we received the following email from a […]

This one comes from our friends at OC Weekly: “A Santa Ana School Police Department officer is at the center of controversy after someone filmed him putting a young boy in a chokehold. The incident occurred shortly after 10 a.m. yesterday at Adams Park, on the corner of Warner Avenue and Raitt Street.” According to […]

A grainy video tweeted to us tonight from the National Queer and Trans Latin@ Alliance shows immigration rights activist Erika Andiola confronting Rep. Loretta Sánchez (D-CA) about the arrests of immigration protesters made yesterday in Sánchez’s DC office. Another tweet shows a picture of Sánchez and Andiola talking during what appears to be the confrontation […]

This is a statement that The Orlando Sentinel got from Lew Oliver, chairman of the Orange County Republican Executive Committee, in response to a story that the Florida county is getting more and more blue: Voter registration stats are nearly perfect reflections of demographics or national trends, rather than local efforts. Actually we’re a little […]