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An article published today in Politico contained the following comment by Janet Murguía, the head of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), one of President Obama’s closest U.S. Latino political allies: President Barack Obama has lost the nation’s largest Latino advocacy organization. The National Council of La Raza is set to declare Obama “the […]

Yesterday marked the 97th anniversary of the Jones-Shafroth Act by Pres. Woodrow Wilson, declaring “that the citizens of Porto Rico” were from then on “citizens of the United States.” It seems some leaders of the free world don’t know the definition of citizenship. Before the act was signed in 1917, the people of “Porto Rico” […]

UPDATE, March 4, 2014: People who questioned the validity of the photo need to know that it is real. El Nuevo Herald in Miami also published it in a photo gallery by Chilean photographer Orlando Barría. This year’s Dominican Carnival concluded yesterday in the capital city of Santo Domingo. It featured 180 processions, representing the […]

We got the following post from our friends at Presente: WARNING: THE VIDEO CONTAINS GRAPHIC CONTENT AND MAY BE UPSETTING. VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED. Five Moore, Oklahoma police officers attacked and killed Luis Rodriguez in front of his wife and daughter as his family left a movie theater on Valentine’s Day. Luis was unarmed, innocent, […]

Our friends at NPR’s AltLatino tweeted to us this morning: We’re premiering the new Calle 13 album today. Streaming it for a week http://t.co/p690g6uNk0 @latinorebels @ThisIsFusion @Latina — NPR Alt.Latino (@AltLatino) February 27, 2014 New Calle 13. First listen. Listen to it here by individual tracks or here by full album.

Yesterday HuffPost Live dedicated a segment to Puerto Rico’s latest economic woes. The beginning was a bit financially wonky but Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi joined the discussion. We have to give credit Pierluisi for this discussion since he rarely brought up statehood and looked at the status question from a more rational perspective. Here are […]

Rick Najera is still keeping it real, sharing his views from his book, “Almost White: Forced Confessions of a Latino in Hollywood.” Watch. If you haven’t checked the book out, you should. Here is the link.

On the eve of World War II, the Nazis began to describe the European Jews as “Untermenschen.” The word literally means “subhumans”—a creature that resembles a person, but is nevertheless a bestial humanoid aberration. This was a way to dehumanize them in preparation for a statewide programm of mass extermination. Since the Holocaust, scholars have […]

After asking award-winning ad agency 72 and Sunny for comment about its latest UNHATE “Juanito the Illegal Immigrant” awareness campaign produced in association with the United Nations’ Department of Public Information and Benetton, Latino Rebels received an email response from an agency spokesperson defending the creative and editorial choices made for Juanito 2014: Thanks for […]

As we wait to hear back from 72 and Sunny, the global ad agency responsible for a bizarrely offensive “Juanito the Illegal Immigrant” campaign for a UNHATE program sponsored by Benetton and the United Nations, we failed to mention in our original story that the agency was named Ad Week’s Agency of the Year in […]

This story starts when the main Latino Rebels account received an email from someone at 72andSunny, “a full service, modern communications company, recently named ‘Agency of the Year’ by Advertising Age,” according to the agency’s website. The subject line to the email read: “Benetton & UN Create Illegal Immigrant Candidate for Governor of Arizona.” At first we […]

Five days after Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro charged him with a list of things —“conspiring to commit a crime, arson of a public building, instigating a crime, severe injury, public intimidation, damage to public property, terrorism and homicide”— Leopoldo López emerged from hiding last Tuesday to lead thousands of anti-government protesters through the Chacaíto neighborhood in […]

Does anyone not search the Internet before they consider new college parties? We guess not. The latest example of in cultural appropriation comes from Columbia University, as reported by the school’s paper, The Columbia Spectator: Two Facebook photos posted and later removed showed students in Columbia’s chapter of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority wearing sombreros, […]

In all seriousness, a story about listeria leading to one death and making three newborns sick is tragic, but we are still scratching our heads when we saw the following headline from an Associated Press article, as well as the first sentence from that very same article: Thinking it was a joke, we Googled the […]

This is by far our favorite story of 2014 right now, so we’re going to share yet another piece about it. Enjoy. Immigration is Beautiful from Byron J. Love on Vimeo.

[View the story “Venezuela: February 19” on Storify]

Leave it to Rubén Blades to offer a graceful response to the ongoing situation in Venezuela. While other celebrities like Cher (yes, Cher) and Willie Colón (irony) are waxing extreme about the news from Caracas, Blades’ piece, originally written in Spanish, explores the crisis’ nuances and complexities. You can read the entire Spanish post here. […]

You got to hand it to the folks over at TIME. They sure know how to put together an attention-grabbing cover. In 2012 they created a buzz when they put a bunch of Latinos (and one half-white, half-Chinese guy) on the cover with the words “Yo decido,” suggesting that Latinos would decide that year’s presidential […]

You can catch Chapter 1 here, Chapter 2 here, Chapter 3 here and Chapter 4 here. Indie-inspired, Latin-hearted group Del Exilio brings you new music videos from their new album PANAMERICANO, blending telenovela episodes with traditional music videos.  Check out this web video series that captures the story of how an immigration reform revolution is sparked, and how a young man’s […]

Puerto Rico is usually thought of as a tourism destination or is usually invisible in the U.S. media. In recent times, its fiscal and economic crisis has led to inaccurate comparisons with Detroit or Greece whose fiscal crisis have attracted much media attention. As usual, the mainstream press looks at the illness without looking at […]

We refuse to link back to Univision’s interview with George Zimmerman for a very simple reason: it was shameful. There is so much to be said about why the country’s largest Spanish-speaking network decided to interview a man whose only claim to fame was that he shot Trayvon Martin to death. What Univision did last […]