Latino Rebels

Editor’s Note: Earlier this morning, we received the following post from the groups listed at the end of this piece: Grounded in a strong culture of conservation, Latinos in the United States routinely poll as the biggest supporters of government action to combat climate change. Although this may come as a surprise to some outside […]

Omar Baddar, the person who made the follow video, does have a point. Watch.

Last week, Latino Rebels received the following email to our general inbox. The subject line said, “Hi, I need help.” The email’s first sentence read, “This happened to my friend’s mother, we want people to know.” After some back and forth with the person who sent the email, we decided to publish the entire email: […]

Here we go again. Last night, yet ANOTHER winning Powerball ticket was sold in Puerto Rico, and although you would think the U.S. mainlaind Twittersphere would have gotten the clue from the last time a winning ticket came from the island, it looks like one guy didn’t even register: Guess Mike didn’t read this piece. […]

53 years. 53 flipping years. That’s how long “Sábado Gigante” has been on the air. Today, Univision announced that the show will see its last day on September 19. As you might imagine, this is the PERFECT Friday afternoon topic to ask our community about the news. Here is a sampling of what people are […]

This weekend we heard a story discussing the systematic “exporting” of drug addicts from many Puerto Rican municipalities to Chicago. We were disturbed both by the policy and by the way in which the story was framed in the pieces we heard. The stories we heard emphasized a corruption scheme in which Puerto Rican municipal […]

Last week, after we shared the news that a new hologram Selena Quintanilla-Pérez is a project many in our social media community thought was just “creepy,” we wrote to the company entrusted to bring back the spirit of the legendary late singer to the stage. This is the email discussion we had with Abelardo Rodríguez, […]

Meet César A. Cruz Teolol, recently featured on Meredith Vieira for his incredible work and contributions to the Latino community. Cruz, originally from Guadalajara, Mexico, came to the United States as a child to be reunited with his mother. Like many immigrant mothers, César’s mother set out for the U.S. in pursuit of a better […]

This came from Mediaite. It explains itself. Just watch. Wait, people with Castro as a last name are not only Cuban?

Today we heard this story from This American Life: the systematic exporting of Puerto Rican heroin addicts to scam drug rehabilitation programs on the U.S. mainland. The story has been originally covered by Adriana Cardona-Maguigad for WEBZ in Chicago. The situation is tragic, yet the question remains: Who should be blamed? A corrupt Puerto Rican political […]

The recent news about the shooting death of Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina, has Latino leaders in Pasco, Washington, wondering why the Pasco Police Department has yet to act on the February shooting of Antonio Zambrano Montes, whose death at the hands of officers was also caught on video. In a release to […]

The sentence in the opening graf from NBC News last night said it all: “Feidin Santana, a barber who immigrated to the U.S. from the Dominican Republic, is at the center of a story that has transfixed the nation.” This extended interview from MSNBC with Santana reveals a lot about why he felt is was […]

Give it up for The Warning, three sisters from Monterrey, Mexico, who are rocking it in the following video. While you’re at it, help Daniela, Paulina and Alejandra get to Boston’s Berklee School of Music. They have a GoFundMe page. (H/T Boston Magazine)

So we read this story from our dear friends at Remezcla, who had linked to the following official announcement from the Facebook fan page of Selena Quintanilla-Pérez: #HappyTuesday Selena fans! SURPRISE!! Acrovirt, LLC announces the launch of Selena The One, the development of a… Posted by Selena on Tuesday, April 7, 2015 That Facebook post […]

The following video was posted yesterday by the fabulous @Blabbeando. It shows Hipólito Mejía, President of the Dominican Republic from 2000–2004, talking at an event in New Jersey this month. As @Blabbeando writes: Standing before a campaign flag that promises “equality,” Mejía doesn’t mention same-sex marriage but jokes that his campaign handlers wanted him to […]

Here’s the latest Rebel Report. All about Rafael Edward Cruz.

Bad translation alert! Sometimes you have to know about context, usage and all that other fun stuff so as to avoid the awkward laughs and snickers. This week’s FDA Spanish translation email about Easter egg safety is one of those moments. Here’s the problem with what the agency released in Spanish: by just using the […]

Yesterday, as major news outlets reported that New Jersey senator Bob Menendez (D) was being indicted for federal corruption charges, the Department of Justice also publicly shared the 68-page indictment: Menendez and Melgen Indictment The Department of Justice also shared a press release, part of which stated the following: Robert Menendez, a U.S. Senator, and […]

After facing intense critcism for a series of questions he made towards Chicago mayoral candidate Chuy García Tuesday night during a “Chicago Tonight” candidates debate, WTTW Phil Ponce admitted to columnist John Kass of The Chicago Tribune the he messed up. Here is the lengthy quote Kass published in his column today from a phone […]

UPDATE, April 2, 8:30am ET: Ponce told The Chicago Tribune’s John Kass that he messed up big time. In case you missed this last night from Chicago, here is what WTTW’s Phil Ponce asked Chicago mayoral candidate Chuy García during a “Chicago Tonight” debate. Ponce’s questions even got Mayor Rahm Emanuel to step in and […]

Even our favorite puppets are thinking of Selena today: