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We get a lot of story ideas and tips from our Facebook community, and the following one from Elizabeth Ayala is perhaps one of the most bizarre ones we have ever seen. Here is what Elizabeth posted on our FB page: “Apparently Google search thinks the upcoming Chavez biopic is about Julio Cesar.” So we […]

Este 12 de febrero habrá un #ForoVirtual sobre la reforma migratoria con los siguientes panelistas: La sesión virtual se trasmitirá a través de YouTube. Podrá participar usando #ForoVirtual o #alivio2014. Además hay un página sobre este evento en Facebook. Durante el evento, podrá verlo aquí: ¿De qué se trata? Un foro digital honesto sobre la […]

DORADO, PR—Yesterday afternoon, Standard and Poors decided to downgrade Puerto Rico’s general obligations bonds one notch to non-investment grade or “junk-bond status.” Most people I have talked to here on the island are quite concerned about the effects of such a downgrade in our standard of living, and many are outright depressed. On the other […]

You can catch Chapter 1 here, Chapter 2 here and Chapter 3 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 identity is transformed by […]

In a breaking report published today by Portada, CNN Latino, a Spanish-language venture launched last January for the U.S. Latino market, will cease programming operations this month. Here is that the Portada report says: “CNN Latino was a bold effort to emphasize CNN’s commitment to the Hispanic market in the United States,” said Isabel Bucaram , […]

This is nuts. Read the slideshow. It’s long, but it is quite telling.   [View the story “Travis County Sheriff’s Twitter Trolling #Not1More Protesters” on Storify]   By the way, a press release by #Not1More organizers was sent today: Travis County Sheriff Trolls #Not1More Protestors on Twitter Sheriff’s Online Comments Demonstrate His Misunderstanding of the  […]

Yo, Laura Ingraham, we have a few things to say to you. Yeah, it’s about your response to Justice Sonia Sotomayor (via Media Matters) for a speech Sotomayor gave where she took pride in saying that she was the first Justice to use the term “undocumented immigrant,” because “to call them illegal aliens seemed and […]

Earlier today, the Facebook page of “KOTV – The News On 6” out of Oklahoma shared the following post: Post by KOTV – The News On 6.   The response was so negative (just read the comments), that members of Dream Act Oklahoma (Tulsa) responded rather quickly with a call to action. Tonight, these DREAMers […]

Here is what Madelyn Lugo, the head of National Puerto Rican Day Parade (NPRDP), shared today in response to reports that the office of the New York Attorney General will disband the board based on a investigation surrounding the board’s dealings. A detailed summary of what was reported previously can be seen here. Last summer, […]

The most ironic thing about the whole Coca-Cola multilingual Super Bowl Ad “Twitter outrage?” The first piece we read about it (besides on Twitter) was on E! Online: Coca-Cola’s “America the Beautiful” Super Bowl Commercial Sparks Outrage on Twitter http://t.co/oOa39BSeqM — Latino Rebels (@latinorebels) February 3, 2014 E! Online. Looks like neo-nativist ignorance has now […]

Last week Justicia Para el Pueblo released the 35-minute video “24 de Febrero, Día de las Autodefensas, la Película” (“February 24, Day of the Autodefensas, The Movie”), commemorating the uprising’s first anniversary that falls on Mexico’s “Flag Day.” Beginning with some of the footage of the shorter “The Right to Defend Myself” explaining the uprising’s […]

Let this one speak for itself. A new video from the National Congress of American Indians: More information about the campaign can be found here. This is what the NCAI wrote in an email to Indian Country Today Media Network: This week’s celebration of football is exactly why we need to keep talking about the […]

Ten months after sponsorship decisions by the board of the National Puerto Rican Day Parade (NPRDP) led to a major backlash by New York City’s Puerto Rican community as well as calls for an investigation by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, the New York Post is reporting today that Schneiderman is ready to […]

UPDATE, February 1, 2014, 1:30pmET: looks like the Facebook photos have been taken down. But they are still here. The following images were pulled from that site: *** ORIGINAL STORY PUBLISHED EARLIER ON FEBRUARY 1, 2014 So those pictures of kids shooting paintball pellets at cutouts of migrant targets with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents? […]

UPDATE, February 1, 2014, 10:30 AM ET: The pictures in question were part of the 2013 San Diego Fallen Agents Memorial Run. And several of the pictures showing kids at target practice can be found on at the run’s official page. In response to a story originally published in Mexico’s Excelsior that showed images of […]

Editor’s Note: This story was developed as a collaboration between Carolina Drake (@CarolinaADrake on Twitter) and Luis Marentes (@marentesluis on Twitter). Since our site does not allow for double bylines, we ran Carolina’s byline at the top, but want to acknowledge Luis as well for his contribution to this piece. On Sunday, January 19 the […]

Thanks for nothing, Food Network. This explains itself. (Original tweet here.) And while you are at it, add a “witty” song about guacamole. (Original link to video here, if it doesn’t load.) Our response? You know the routine by now: Thanks to @18millionrising for the heads up.

Based on a link from DRMAction, an email sent to Latino Rebels and a post from POLITICO, here is the full text of that the Republicans’ immigration reform principles: PREAMBLE Our nation’s immigration system is broken and our laws are not being enforced. Washington’s failure to fix them is hurting our economy and jeopardizing our […]

You know many on the right side of the political spectrum are having issues with the constant mocking of immigration issues by conservative media when a tweet alerting us to Drudge Report’s “John Boehner in a Sombrero” image came from an actual Latin@ conservative: I’m surprised @latinorebels didn’t say anything about the cover of Drudge… […]

In response to a Latino Rebels open letter to the new Fusion network, CEO Isaac Lee invited us for a visit to the Newsport. True to their word, the Fusion team graciously welcomed me (an original member of the LR collective since 2011) to its Miami-based headquarters last week. The brand-new Fusion network is a […]

Just weeks after making global headlines for becoming the first publicly-known undocumented lawyer in California history to be admitted to the state bar, Sergio García is now facing another different sort of challenge from bloggers as well as nationally syndicated columnist Ruben Navarrette, Jr.—that he is just a “DREAMer Diva” for promoting an “exorbitant $25,000 performance […]