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We are 100% convinced that the content obsession about Pope Francis has reached its bitter end when Gawker’s Ken Layne published a piece yesterday entitled, “Pople Drank: What’s Up With Pope Francis and His Pipe Thing?” and it got over 30,000 reads. This post basically explained to the culturally ignorant what mate is, and how (shocking) […]

On paper, it sounded promising: submit a video for your Spanish class. Then we saw it (video below), and we suffered. Here’s the scoop (via Gawker and Reddit): Julie Bryan submitted a film for her Spanish class, and got an A. Good for the amateur filmmakers and their really laughably bad Spanish, but bad for […]

Many were wondering when author Junot Díaz would respond to a barrage of critiques, including those from a Dominican author and a government official. This morning, Díaz’s Facebook page posted the following comments:

This. Just watch. And next time someone accuses us of “reverse racism,” we will just play this.

Here’s one from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, proving once again that ignorance still knows no bounds, whether it is in the analog world or the social media world: For the second time in less than four months, Gov. Scott Walker has fired an aide for making demeaning comments about Hispanics on social media. Walker — who has been calling on […]

This insanely sad story comes from Hempstead, Texas. All you need to do is see the screen grab. Yeah, it’s true. Here’s the video of the story from local Houston media. As you can imagine, the story is getting reaction from our community. Just a few of the thoughts we are getting: @latinorebels taking a […]

In an email obtained by Latino Rebels, José Santana, the Executive Director of the Dominican Republic’s International Advisory Committee on Science and Technology, an organization created by former president Leonel Fernández, lambasted author Junot Díaz for critical comments about current Dominican politicians, specifically in how they are using the current controversy surrounding Dominicans of Haitian […]

Last week Dominican writer Giovanny Cruz wrote a rather scathing and nationalistic op-ed in notimundord.com basically slamming fellow Dominican writers Junot Díaz and Julia Álvarez for writing a letter to The New York Times criticizing the Dominican government for its recent ruling on citizenship for Haitians. The October 29 Times letter, co-signed by Díaz, Álvarez, Mark Kurlansky […]

This 2012 gem was found by Upworthy. This is Peter Christ, co-founder of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. Start at 3:06, when he says, “We are out there enforcing morality when we enforce drug laws.” Truth.

Remember early in November when New Jersey governor Chris Christie was being praised for being a Republican that was able to garner the Latino vote in an election? The Daily Beast, for example, reminded readers that right before Christie’s re-election sweep, he had changed his position on New Jersey’s version of a DREAM Act, making […]

So the following video clip of President Obama speaking at Dreamworks earlier this week has gone viral: This is the snippet of what he said: As I was getting a tour of DreamWorks, I didn’t ask, but just looking at faces I could tell there were some folks who are here not because they were […]

Yeah, while you hear about how well Black Friday is going in the mainland U.S. or not going well, here is what Puerto Rico’s El Nuevo Día posted on its Facebook page today. And there’s video too. One from Mayagüez. Post by Karen Marie. Read more about the stories here in Spanish.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Two years ago, the author wrote an opinion piece for CNN that is still shared and discussed to this day. The following is an update to that 2011 post. Thanksgiving is a deeply meaningful annual ritual for Americans. It is singled out as the day to recall a gathering nearly 400 years ago when […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: After we backlinked to Lamont Lilly’s piece earlier this week, he gave the Rebels permission to reprint his entire post. Another Durham resident has now died in a controversial encounter with the Durham Police Department. This time it was teenager and local Riverside High School student, Jesus Huerta. An official response from Durham […]

This past Sunday we got a tweet tip about a photo taken on the set of Univision’s “República Deportiva” showing the popular sports program’s two Senadora models dressed in Pocahontas outfits next to the MLS Cup. After finding out that the photo was deleted from Twitter (and no one knows why), we were able to […]

This happened today in San Francisco. Watch. #Not1More. Who was the first voice? 24-year-old Ju Hong.

Last week in Durham, North Carolina, home of Duke University, 17-year-old Jesus Huerta died in the back of a police car. This is what a local Durham newspaper wrote about the case: Jesus Huerta, a 10th-grader at Riverside High School, was being charged with second-degree trespassing just before 3 a.m. Tuesday and was in the […]

And here we go again. Remember last November when it seemed every sorority in America was getting all racist? Here we go again. NBC12.com – Richmond, VA News Of course Randolph-Macon College stepped in: Randolph-Macon College does not tolerate any type of discriminatory behavior. The college finds this type of conduct reprehensible and in direct […]

Who knew that we would be defending Pitbull? But yeah, that is what happening after the Twitter ignoranti could not believe that Pitbull was hosting last night’s AMAs. How could a (gasp!) MEXICAN be on TV? Yup, people that is what happened last night. Why are the AMERICAN Music Awards hosted by a mexican? Uhm […]

We take a break on Sunday and come back to some good old-fashioned sexism and cultural appropriation, Univision style. Looks like the folks at the network were having a little fun today on Twitter. It started with this tweet sent to us: :0/ “@MLSGabor: PIC- @RepDeportiva ‘s iconic Senadoras with #MLSCup Trophy @Caromacallister @albagalindo #VW4Soccer […]

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