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Let's get this straight. Mention Taco Bell to many US Latinos and you will get this: Crap food, unless you are drunk or high at 2 am and need to force feed yourself (although for us, we would search out the real deal, or just make it ourselves). You mean the brand that has just […]

it is one of the most horrific murders of the social media age. Three Chicago teens decided to play a game called ""Pick 'Em Out and Knock 'Em Out" at 5 am on Tuesday morning. Soon, their game turned deadly and their target—62-year-old Delfino Mora—would die as he was collecting discarded cans. The murder would be […]

Today, the LA Times reported a story about the early days of Bain Capital and how Mitt Romney and other founding partners of Bain went out to raise money in 1984 for the new firm. The Times report covers the early founding history of Bain. Here is a part of the article: The first outside investor in […]

Last night on The Daily Show, Al Madrigal "smuggles America-style smear tactics into Mexico." Now if The Daily Show only covered #YoSoy132, THAT would be very cool. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Breaking Ad www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog The Daily Show on Facebook […]

Today Latino Decisions published a new poll commissioned by the Center for American Progress Action Fund and America’s Voice that shows President Obama increase his lead over Mitt Romney among US Latino voters. The latest results reported that Obama was favored by 70% of those polled with Romney earning 22% support from poll participants. The […]

Capitalism 101. Someone wants a product. Someone else produces that product. Person who wants the product that was produced purchases the product. Person who made the product gets the money from the person who bought the product. Rinse and repeat. That is basically how it goes. Whether it is legal or against the law. Such […]

So the Mitt Romney Latino strategy continues with the latest Spanish ad that features his son Craig (looking like a Univision soap opera star) telling Spanish-speaking voters that his father Mitt believes in immigration and will work to find a bipartisan solution to reform the immigration system. Titled "País de inmigrantes," the ad mentions nothing […]

Last night we submitted questions to Gabriela Saucedo Mercer, Republican candidate for Arizona's 3rd Congressional district, regarding the following Facebook post. We followed up today with a piece that showed that two of Saucedo Mercer's FB posts in the last week were lifted from other sources that weren't credited. The questions we submitted were these: Can […]

Last night, we published a story about Gabriela Saucedo Mercer, Republican candidate for Arizona's 3rd Congressional District, who posted the following analogy on her official Facebook page: The post went viral pretty quickly. By 12:30 AM EST, it was deleted. However, what can be seen as another case of partisan politics gone wild on social […]

UPDATE: The post mentioned in this story was removed from Facebook around 12:30 AM EST July 16, 2012. Tonight the following Facebook post from the official page of Gabriela Saucedo Mercer, a Republican candidate for Congress in Arizona's District 3, has started to go viral and is getting mostly negative and angry attention for the […]

We thought long and hard about NOT PUBLISHING this piece, because It involves a puppet; This puppet’s shtick, although sometimes funny, is coarse and we know that when we start giving this puppet attention, he will just start cursing at us and lowering the debate; Even when we suggested to the puppet that we disagreed […]

Here we go again. Just a week after tens of thousands (can we say hundreds now?) of Mexicans took to the streets for the first #MegaMarcha demonstrations to proclaim that the country's July 1 presidential elections were fraudulent, a second series of marches occurred again yesterday. For those who don't know the full story, here […]

As a follow up to a piece by The Daily Caller that suggested that the USDA (and hence, the Obama Administration) is marketing food stamps to "non-citizens" because the government has created a series of Spanish-language "soap operas," we received a letter from veteran journalist Isaac Cubillos, who wrote to The Daily Caller. Cubillos has […]

Violence broke out in an indigenous community last week in Guatemala after a peaceful protest against the unjust policies of the mayor of Santa Cruz del Quiché, Estuardo Castro. The brutal attack against the K’iché hearkened back to Guatemala’s brutal history of repressing indigenous populations. On Wednesday night, July 4th, the indigenous K’iché Community Council […]

A general memo to those "independent" outlets that try to hide behind "journalism" but are just twisting the truth a bit to perpetuate fears and misinformation: please don't pretend that you are all of a sudden concerned about Latinos. Case in point, a strange story by The Daily Caller today that states: USDA uses Spanish soap […]

NOTE: This story and its headline have been edited and updated from its original report to reflect new information about the total number of respondents in this Quinnipiac poll. Governor Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican candidate for President, may be gaining support with US Latino voters, according to a Quinnipiac poll released today. The poll […]

You don't think the US Latino vote is not important? Conventional political wisdom pretty much has said over and over again that for Mitt Romney to win the presidency in 2012, he has to move the needle on the Latino vote. If he is not around the 35-40% range with US Latino voters, he is […]

Our own @bezotes and Rebelde photog Rebecca Beard had a chance to catch up with Tato Laviera, whose musical King of Cans premiered on July 15 at New York's Red Carpet Theater and will also play on July 22 and July 29. For tickets, contact serycolon@aol.com. Tato Laviera stands up from his seat, backstage at Symphony Space, with […]

We love Ana Tijoux. And just when we thought we could never love her and her music more, she comes out with "Shock," for the Alto Arizona campaign. Here is the video. Here is the story behind the video: A collaboration with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), National Immigrant Youth Alliance and Puente […]

In  a speech that he gave yesterday at the National Council of La Raza’s annual conference in Las Vegas, Vice President Biden said the following: “Mitt Romney wants you to show your papers, but he won’t show us his.” Here is the full context (and yes, the line was well-received): The reference is a slippery one. Connect […]

Is it getting this bad when a sports reporter can't ask a question in Spanish on TV and translate for viewers in English without having the ignorantes scream, "THIS IS AMERICA, SPEAK ENGLISH!!!" and expose all that is awful about this country? Such is the case of ESPN's Pedro Gómez, who asked the father of […]