Latino Rebels

This just in from our friends at Latino USA on NPR.

Two years ago, Puerto Rico’s Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi, a non-voting member of the U.S. Congress and the leader of the island’s pro-statehood party, submitted the Puerto Rico Status Resolution Act to the House of Representatives, with the hope that his fellow voting members would act on resolving Puerto Rico’s political status. A Senate version […]

Almost a month after 23-year-old John Paul Quintero died from a confrontation with Wichita Police after his father had requested help from 911, calls for justice and a more transparent investigation continue. Last night during Wichita’s City Council meeting, supporters, including one of Quintero’s family members, attending the meeting to ask about Quintero’s death and […]

We could school Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks (R) about what he said this morning on talk radio, but Think Progress already did. But, hey, you HAVE to blame someone. Listen. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/189303921″ params=”color=ff5500″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] All together now.

While the Mexican press was covering and tweeting about a resolution on Mexico by California state senator Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) that passed unanimously yesterday in Sacramento, we checked to see if any United States press outlets even gave Lara’s resolution a mention. That would be a no. Senador latino Ricardo Lara sube resolución a […]

The following is a 20-minute YouTube video from last Wednesday’s protest about the shooting death of 17-year-old Jessica Hernández. It was uploaded this weekend to YouTube and includes leaders from the Denver Freedom Riders

Another week, another new #RebelReport. This week, R.J. talks “Deflategate.”

As the local Denver press focuses on the shooting death of 17-year-old Jessica Hernández, Latino Rebels reached out this morning to the attorneys of the Hernández family for the full statement released yesterday to the media, since the outlets we read and watched are just reporting partial excerpts. We received the following statement as well […]

A local Denver news channel spoke with an eyewitness who says she was in the car during the shooting death of 17-year-old Jessica Hernández. Here is the report Wednesday evening:

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You have to give it up to our friend Laura Martínez of Mi blog es tu blog. Last night, Laura found this ridiculous gem, an actual tweet from the Twitter account of Harvard Business Review: As you might imagine, huh? ¿Qué qué? @julito77 @miblogestublog @HarvardBiz They needed a photo of people asleep while sitting. We […]

Here at Latino Rebels we like to cover the serious issues, and what can be more serious than Puerto Rican politics becoming part of the 2015 Miss Universe contest, which ended last Sunday. During preliminary evers before the primetime show, Miss Puerto Rico was asked whether she thought the U.S. colony (sorry, territory) should become […]

Facebook. There was a time when the social media behemoth actually was a fun place. Now it seems that it is more like a utility company: it might not be that exciting, you have to pay if you really want to play, but you still can’t live without it. We do remember when Facebook had […]

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Why is Rick Santorum back? Time to blame the immigrants! They’re taking our jobs! We’re all losing money all because of all these immigrants! (This was disproven before.) Here we go again. This was Santorum on CNN yesterday. Quick thing: didn’t Santorum’s own flipping family arrive in the United States in that previous “great wave” […]

With all the noise surrounding the RNC and Univision, R.J. Aguiar shares his thoughts on the newest “Rebel Report.” Watch.

This morning, we received the following tweet: .@latinorebels ICE illegally deported Arturo Tejeda Munoz (A#202145782) on Jan 16 2015. #BringHimHome #ArturoTejeda (message for more info) — nestor guillen (@birdsnfrogs) January 23, 2015 As a follow-up to that tweet, we requested for more information about the case of Arturo Tejada Muñoz. Soon, we received an email […]

Last night Larry Wilmore’s “Nightly Show” covered Cuba. Outside of the typical cigar and rum jokes, it was a pretty good discussion. The show doesn’t embed videos yet, but click on the link here or on the photo below.

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UPDATE, January 22, 2015: New reports are saying Perez is staying on the show, although ABC or “The View” have yet to comment about the open letter. In response to a Variety report that actor Rosie Perez will be exiting ABC’s “The View” after just four months on the show, an open letter co-signed by […]

We are fairly certain that very few (if any) major media outlets mentioned the fact that yesterday’s #Dream4Justice march in New York City on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day did not just focus on the lost lives of African Americans who died at the hands of police. The names and faces of John Paul Quintero, Israel […]