Latino Rebels

Puerto Rico’s Economic Development and Commerce Sec. Alberto Bacó Bagué defends the island’s economic policies which favor the wealthy and attract foreign investment.

Courtroom video shows Kentucky prosecutor John Carter claiming that a driver’s being Latino is probable cause to pull him or her over.

Mexican-born artist Ana Teresa Fernández painted the border fence separating the beaches of California and Baja California to show what life might be like without the wall.

Two years ago, the story of the Dream 9 sent shock waves through the immigrant rights community. This weekend, NPR’s Latino USA dedicated an entire hour to the 2013 action, which is still being talked about today.

Enough with the marketing campaign. U.S. Latino voters are done being insulted by a campaign that places emphasis on false assumptions about the U.S. Latino vote.

Welcome to the ugly side of Latin American TV, where white dudes paint themselves in blackface to make people laugh. A new protest in Colombia is trying to change that, and the group is determined to create some noise.

Existe un movimiento que crece cada día y que plantea el derecho de los boricuas en el exilio a luchar por un mejor Puerto Rico, libre de la subordinación colonial y en pleno ejercicio de sus poderes como país soberano.

There is a growing movement which puts forth the right of Puerto Ricans in exile to struggle for a better Puerto Rico, free of colonial subordination and able to fully exercise its sovereign rights.

Artist Michelle Angela Ortiz’s “Familias Separadas” project involves a series of public installations on the effects of deportation on immigrant families.

It got uncomfortable.

As the White House brings labor leaders together and honors various worker rights defenders, two people who won’t be in attendance are Gustavo Barahona-Sanchez and Jose Adan Fugon-Cano.

A new documentary on the push for immigration reform is premiering at this year’s New York Film Festival.

The postcards calling for the deportation of all “Mexican trash” come in the wake of a San Francisco woman shot and killed by an undocumented immigrant.

Hector rocks it on global TV.

It’s so ok to talk about this.

We HAVE to give it up to Adrian Carrasquillo of Buzzfeed for finding one gem of a video. Before we explain, just watch: Ok, now this is what you need to know. The singer is named Ruben Obed Martinez. According to Buzzfeed, he is a 38-year-old Puerto Rican, who “was born and grew up in […]

Butts! Bikinis! Border Walls!

Yesterday at the United Nations, Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto spoke in front of the UN’s General Assembly, one of many global leaders who spoke there (including Cuban president Raúl Castro). Our friends at AJ+ did a quick video clip of Peña Nieto’s remarks, highlighting the points where Peña Nieto says that Mexico respects human […]

On Sunday morning, members of “Somos los otros NY,” a New York-based group that continues to shed light on Ayotzinapa, posted a video on its Facebook page, showing Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto as he left his hotel in New York City, while protesters greeted him with shouts of “asesino” (“murderer”). Peña Nieto, one of […]

Sometimes we wonder if public relations agencies actually know what we do here, because either the following email pitch we received tonight is either a joke or it’s just ignorance (here’s the edited version to protect the names of the agency that sent us this): SUBJECT LINE: They’re ugly and we know it! Hispanic- Christmas […]

Yesterday, thousands marched in Mexico City and all over the world to remember the 1-year anniversary of Ayotzinapa. Here is a slideshow of social media images from the protests: [View the story “#DíaDeLaIndignación” on Storify]