Latino Rebels

Editor’s Note: Earlier this year, we received from following email. We have decided to share it with all of you. Dear Editor: I’m just a Mom that got up this morning and after breakfast (Mexican with eggs and beans and coffee) we settled in the living room and my husband watched the news like every […]

Editor’s Note: You can read Part I here. The following diagram provides a map of the Ponce Massacre tragedy. With tommy gunners at the top of the photo, 15 armed cops at the bottom and nowhere to turn for safety, hundreds of unarmed Puerto Ricans were trapped in an intentional crossfire —a classic killing zone— […]

Here is another new #RebelReport. Hit it, R.J.

And you thought this was all going away? As reported by Mediaite with additional commentary from America’s Voice, the following is a series of videos showing how certain “patriots” addressed Rep. Luis Gutiérrez at a recent town hall meeting in California. Here is the first video: “This was an event held at USC that was […]

This one comes from TIME. The same week Texas senator Ted Cruz launched his presidential campaign for 2016, his campaign also released a Spanish-language campaign that loudly screams his family’s immigrant background and plays up his Cuban and Latino roots. This is coming from the guy who thinks bilingual education creates a “language ghetto.” What […]

This is sad. But funny. Yes, sad and funny.

UPDATE, March 27: A few days after this interview, local press reported that Lúgaro’s office was one of several companies raided by the FBI in an ongoing investigation surrounding fraud in the Department of Education. Lúgaro has already said that her copmpany has not committed any fraud, and many on the island feel that the […]

Here is a new video from AJ+ that tells a story we have known for quite a while now.

Another weekend, another “Rebel Report.” Here’s the latest episode.

Here is a release shared this week by the Washington State Commission on Hispanic Affairs: The Listening Session comes at a time where questions continue about the February shooting death of Antonio Zambrano-Montes. Today an opinion piece by Raúl Reyes in USA Today said the following: The Pasco killing is worthy of further scrutiny by the […]

Here is an image of the letter MALDEF sent to the head of FOX today regarding last week’s Mexican costume fail from THE REAL.

UPDATE, March 20, 2015: Last night, the White House Petition News’ Facebook page stated the following: The petition “take out Alejandro García-Padilla from the governorship of Puerto Rico: Now!” has reached 100k signatures and will soon receive a response from the White House concerning possible inquires into the territorial economy of Puerto Rico in relation […]

Remember when Gina Rodríguez wowed us all with her speech at the Golden Globes? She did it again at a recent appearance for Jane the Virgin. You can read the whole Vulture piece here, but we share an excerpt about what she said: So the industry says ‘let’s hire a Latino,’ and then the Latinos […]

Leave it to The Economist for reminded us all that they are clueless. For an article about the rise of U.S. Latinos, this is the cover the magazine has for one of its editions. No worries, they have a China one, too. This week we have two different regional versions of our cover March 14th […]

The following video is of poor quality but it shows Rodner Figueroa on “El Gordo y La Flaca” describing Michelle Obama’s physical features as being from the cast of the movie Planet of the Apes (El planeta de los simios in Spanish). Univision confirmed today via a statement to Latino Rebels that Figueroa has been […]

By now you may have already seen perhaps one of the most overtly bad stereotype moments of 2015. Earlier today The Real talk show thought dressing up its hosts in sarapes, sombreros and mustaches while doing a cooking bit about quesadillas would be funny. It wasn’t even close. All you need to do is check […]

Yesterday we received the following statement from #Not1More organizers regarding the news that individuals eligible for DACA and DAPA are still being deported even when President Obama told a national TV audience the following: “And so, even as people should be preparing their paperwork so that when the time comes that they can apply, in […]

Last Monday, our editors posted a Media Matters report which highlighted what we knew all along: when it comes to Sunday news shows on U.S. media (both in English and in Spanish), these shows have become a sad example of “single issue syndrome”—you know, bring your Latino guests on the show and (surprise, surprise) talk […]

This weekend, our founder @julito77 (who is also the Digital Media Director for Futuro Media Group, producers of NPR’s LatinoUSA) was part of a very honest radio discussion with Latino USA host Maria Hinojosa and political strategist Alida García about why national mainstream Latino civil rights organizations (read NCLR, MALDEF, LULAC) have been pretty silent […]

In just 13 minutes last night, John Oliver did more for all those U.S. territories than any politician ever has done in a century. Watch.

UPDATE, March 19, 2015: The petition has reached 100,000 signatures, hours before the March 20 deadline. Ah, the WhiteHouse.gov online petition page. The move to make democracy more “transparent” has had its share of winners (see Bieber) and losers (see this one). If a specific petition reaches 100,000 signatures in about 30 days, the White […]