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Late last night our Publisher @julito77 emailed a request for comment from The Heritage Foundation about two Latino Rebels stories about how the family foundations of Richard M. Scaife, the Vice Chairman of the Heritage’s Foundation Board of Trustees, had been donating millions of dollars for years to anti-immigration organizations linked to John Tanton. This […]

Jason Richwine, who resigned last Friday from The Heritage Foundation over his “IQ and Immigration Policy” dissertation from 2009, went on record today with The Washington Examiner to defend his work and speak about the reaction it received (for example, Google “Jason Richwine racist” and see the millions of entries you will get). Here are just are […]

A troubling story out of Bakersfield has taken a very serious turn after local TV ran a video of what appears to be Kern County deputies beating an intoxicated David Sal Silva repeatedly last Wednesday. Silva eventually died in-custody, according to local reports: The grainy black and white video appears to show the alleged victim, […]

Earlier today we posted an article detailing how the family foundations run by Richard M. Scaife, the current Vice Chairman of the Heritage Foundation’s Board of Trustees, had given funds to several organizations associated with John Tanton, an individual whom many believe has created “most influential anti-immigrant network in the country.” These donations coincided during […]

There was a time when the Heritage Foundation was looking at immigration through a more rational lens than its recent immigration report and the hornet’s nest it created for Jason Richwine, the study’s co-author, who last Friday resigned from Heritage after fallout from his 2009 Harvard dissertation about immigrants and IQ went viral. In 2006, […]

Here is the on-the-scene report submitted yesterday May 10 by NISGUA, the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala. For all other posts of the Efraín Ríos Montt genocide trial, visit NISGUA here. NISGUA gave Latino Rebels permission to republish their posts from the trial. Today in Guatemala, Judge Yazmin Barrios found former dictator Efraín Ríos […]

This week the Boston Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy wrote a piece questioning the fast start of Boston slugger David Ortiz. Apparently Shaughnessy thinks that Big Papi is using steroids. At one point Shaughnessy, who intersperses his column with replies from Ortiz, writes the following: But you fit all the models. You are from the Dominican Republic. […]

One of the worst things to come out of the Jason Richwine story had to do with the National Institute Policy, a slick “white nationalist” think tank, that now made national TV. The National Policy Institute from The National Policy Institute on Vimeo. This cannot be serious. But it is. Maddow took them to task […]

UPDATE: Just as we were about to post the following story about how Jason Richwine’s Harvard advisers were critical of his 2009 disseration, Slate’s David Weigel reported that Richwine is no longer with the Heritage Foundation: The Heritage Foundation tells without much more detail. The full explanation: Jason Richwine let us know he’s decided to […]

Michelle Herrera Mulligan is the editor-in-chief of Cosmo for Latinas and in a letter that was published yesterday in the HuffPost where she expresses her own personal opinions (and not Cosmo’s or the Hearst Corporation’s) about “Devious Maids,” the new Marc Cherry/Eva Longoria show that will premiere in June on Lifetime, Herrera Mulligan was highly […]

Tonight we read Jason Richwine’s now infamous “IQ and Immigration Policy” Harvard dissertation, the same study that caused headaches for his employer, the Heritage Foundation, and what Michelle Malkin said “is now being used to smear him — and, by extension, all of Heritage’s scholarship — as ‘racist.’ While the punditocracy and political establishment sanctimoniously […]

The Jason Richwine Saga continues, and the latest comes from a Buzzfeed article about how the Heritage Foundation’s Mike Gonzalez stood up for (yet also distanced himself from) Richwine on Univision America’s Fernando Espuelas Show. Yesterday Richwine was identified by the Washington Post as a co-author of Heritage’s latest controversial immigration study but is also […]

We have been very cynical about the Boston media’s depiction of Aisling Brady McCarthy, given the fact that Brady McCarthy was residing in this country illegally when she was charged with the murder of a little baby, but when compared with other high-profile Boston cases (including the latest one involving the Boston Marathon bombing), Brady […]

We have no words. Heritage Foundation “scholar” Jason Richwine, who is facing the heat for his views on immigrants this week (yeah, you know Latinos has low IQS and are dumber than Anglos), has so much more “insight” to share. Our dear friend Sara Inés Calderón found the following Jason Richwine video for her post […]

With all the Internet celebrations about Charles Ramsey and his actions to help rescue the young women and girl in the Cleveland kidnapping case, media outlets are now focusing attention on Ángel Cordero, who also played a key role in freeing the victims. The story also made CNN. We are wondering when the autotunes and […]

By now I’m sure you’ve seen the video interview of Charles Ramsey, a man being declared hero for rescuing three kidnapped Cleveland women missing for over a decade who were presumed dead.  It’s not surprising such incredible news would go viral.  It’s also not surprising one of the first few things to happen was the […]

Yesterday our founder @julito77 appeared on Telemundo Austin to discuss the whole Disney “Día de los Muertos” trademark fiasco. The interview was done via Skype from Latino Rebels HQ in the Boston area. Yeah, Julito has a wicked strong Puerto Rican accent. Watch.

UPDATE, 10:10 pm EST, Pagonakis said the following on a NewsChannel5 Facebook post: He also tweeted this to us a few minutes ago: @latinorebels My deepest apologies I know better. We ran a correction on the air. didn’t report correct information from police. I’m sorry. — Joe Pagonakis (@joeonyourside) May 9, 2013 What has happened […]

The Rev. Sam Rodríguez, who has led the charge for immigration reform among Latino evangelicals, went on air this week to clarify that recent gay rights amendments being considered for the bipartisan current immigration reform bill in the Senate could seriously jeopardize the current alliance in favor of the reform bill, if gay rights were […]

This one is so so bad, we are actually going to start the WITH No Mames Gollum instead of leaving him for the end of the post. So here goes: Jason Richwine, the Heritage Foundation’s Senior Policy Analyst of Empirical Studies and the co-author of the foundation’s much-maligned 2013 immigration study being slammed by prominent […]

Before we get to what Eva Longoria wrote yesterday about “Devious Maids,” let’s start from the very beginning. Last year the Latino online community pretty much criticized Longoria for saying that “most” of the Latino community was “proud” about a all-Latina show about maids. Devious maids. With Marc Cherry as its creator. The same Marc […]