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NISGUA (Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala) filed the following Day 4 report of the genocide trial of former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt and ex-intelligence chief Mauricio Rodriguez Sánchez in Guatemala City. They have given us permission to republish their reports: NISGUA continues live coverage of the trial in Guatemala of Efraín Ríos Montt and Mauricio […]

As more and more details are being reported about GEO Group’s private prison and immigrant detention business, Cuéntame has now produced an extended 30-minute video of its’ original viral “Immigrants for Sale” production. For more information about this story, which has gotten very little attention from the U.S. mainstream media, you can visit the official […]

Yesterday Democracy Now! covered one of the more untold and under-reported stories of the Iraq War. As its website says, “A shocking new report by The Guardian and BBC Arabic details how the United States armed and trained Iraqi death squads that ran torture centers. It is a story that stretches from the U.S.-backed death squads in […]

Beisdes the coverage from the Open Society Justice Initiative, the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA) is also filing reports and live tweeting from the genocide trial of former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt and ex-intelligence chief Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez. Here is an excerpt of NISGUA’s Day 3 report, along with some tweets from […]

Here is an excerpt of the Day 2 report from the trial of former Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt and former head of military intelligence Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez. For more, you can visit The Open Society Justice Initiative. The second day of the Rios Montt genocide trial began with uncertainty about Rios Montt’s legal representation. With […]

File this one under the “We Have Now Seen Everything” category. In a local news article from southwestern Mississippi, reporter Caleb Bedillion was writing a dry standard story about corporate tax breaks. Rather boring stuff until you get to this part of the story, which quoted local county official Nolan Williamson. Wait for this one: […]

This just in from ESPN Deportes about the World Baseball Classic: ESPN Deportes’ exclusive Spanish-language coverage of the 2013 World Baseball Classic concludes with record-breaking numbers during the Championship Game between Caribbean rivals Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico last Tuesday, March 19. The telecast delivered a 3.2 Hispanic household coverage rating with 173,000 Hispanic household […]

Looks like the GEO Group, one of the country’s leading private prison corporations known for profiting from the detainment of immigrants through government contracts, has expanded its business plan, as a Boston Globe article from March 17 reported. As the story begins: Behind a smoky-glass door, a private company called BI Incorporated monitors immigrants facing […]

Today in Kansas, a House committee hearing was held to discuss a bill that would deny in-state tuition for some undocumented immigrant students. It got interesting, according to local reports. First up, Republican state Rep. Allan Rothlisberg. Here is what one article reported: [Rothlisberg] talked about drug cartels filling the prison system and said he was offended […]

It is a piece that’s three weeks old, but in the online world, that doesn’t matter. Philadelphia Magazine’s “Being White in Philly” piece has caused extremely strong emotions. As of this posting, the Robert Huber piece, which attempts to describe the experiences of white residents in the city’s racially-mixed neighborhoods, has gone viral on Facebook with […]

This is the first of a series of reports from the Open Society Justice Initiative about the trial in Guatemala City of former Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt, and José Mauricio Rodríguez Sanchez, former military intelligence chief. The charges are “crimes against humanity and genocide.” As the OSJI states, “The charges arise from systematic massacres of […]

This just in from our friends at Cuéntame, who added this update about Bakersfield woman who is facing deportation because of her barking dogs. Call Now: (202) 732-3000 Sample script: “I am calling in support of Ruth Montaño, Case No. A205 763 399 and ask that her deportation case be dropped. She is a low priority […]

This week the trial of Guatemala’s ex-dictator Efraín Ríos Montt began. Democracy Now! featured this story today on their show. Here is the video: The show’s site also provided more context about this historic trial: In Guatemala, a landmark trial is underway against former U.S.-backed dictator Efraín Ríos Montt on charges of genocide and crimes […]

Watch this and learn. Amazing what happens actual people who know about immigration get to speak with neo-nativist senators who don’t. Senator Jeff Sessions gets schooled. As the original Think Progress post says: Two-thirds of legal immigration is family-based, and a majority of immigrants are now women, thanks to the emphasis on family visas since […]

Last night Puerto Rico’s World Baseball Team shocked sports fans everywhere when it defeated two-time champion Japan, 3-1, in San Francisco to advance to tomorrow night’s WBC championship between the winner of tonight’s Dominican Republic-Netherlands game. Given that the Puerto Ricans are the tournament’s underdogs, first defeating the USA and now the Japanese, boricuas on […]

So the Republican National Committee decided that it needed to wake up this weekend and begin to court the new U.S. voter demographic, when it issued “The Republican National Committee’s Growth and Opportunity Project,” which “is recommending softening some of the party’s conservative positions — or at least how it communicates them.” As one part […]

The mixing of cultures is best served when it feels real and authentic.

One of the least-known stories of the Irish who came to America in the 1840s is that of the Irish battalion that fought on the Mexican side in the U.S.-Mexico War of 1846-1848.

We thought it was a joke, but apparently it isn’t. Some McDonalds now carry café con leche. How could they not, given the following commercial? McDonalds Cafe Con Leche from Acting Uploads on Vimeo. Which leads to this: Yes, you can now get café con leche and cortaditos in South Florida and last year it […]

UPDATE: Olmsted was fired. The HuffPost added more details. After videos (see below) were posted on YouTube chronicling a confrontation between a University of Oregon School of Law adjunct instructor and students on Thursday, the university has reassigned James Olmsted’s teaching responsibilities, but did not reveal if any additional disciplinary action was taken against him. […]

Rick Perry. He isn’t boring, that is for sure. Here is what he said at CPAC yesterday. Hearing boos after mentioning the GOP strategy of reaching out to “growing Hispanic demographic” is the least of his problems. Just watch the rest of it. Yes, U.S. Latinos just live for government handouts, that conservative is “blind […]