Latino Rebels

Ok, we don’t want to just sit here and judge what has been going on through Sammy Sosa’s cabeza in the last five years, but before we completely contradict ourselves and indeed judge, we will say this: in 1998, the year we thought baseball was more of an innocent sport than the drug-fueled fraud it […]

This video from YaMeCansé dropped yesterday. (h/t @Revolución3_0)

To start a new collaboration between Latino Rebels and La Madre Tierra, we first look to the future with voices that give us hope. Xiuhtezcatl Roske-Martínez is a world-renowned 14-year-old (yes, 14) indigenous climate activist and the very embodiment of this hopeful leadership. La Madre Tierra spoke with Xiuhtezcatl in Colorado over the summer. Here […]

In case you missed it, since there was little to no coverage at all in mainstream U.S. media, here is a video of a November 15 solidarity protest in downtown San Francisco for #Ayotzinapa: One of our own Rebeldes was on the ground in San Francisco taking pictures from the scene: Another one from @minsd […]

Created as a tribute to Mexico’s #YaMeCansé global movement, a #USTired2 mobilization calling for peace in Mexico launched this morning, campaign organizers told Latino Rebels. The group has identified December 3, 2014 as the day of demonstrations and rallies in at least 43 US cities to represent the 43 Ayotzinapa students. Organizers said that their focus will be […]

So just a few days after it was all about “anchor babies,” CNN’s “New Day” had actress Diane Guerrero (“Orange Is the New Black’) on to discuss her very personal story about her family and the open letter she wrote this weekend. “It is so difficult for some people to get documented and to get […]

This week on Rebel Report, host R.J. Aguiar weighs in on Pointergate. For more episodes, check out Episode 1 and Episode 2. Post by Flama.

Just watch. An video from earlier this November, before recent developments.

UPDATE: Mediaite has now posted clips of Cuomo’s words after we shared the transcript and wrote our story. Seeing it on the air is even worse. Let’s just say this: If Cuomo thinks that he gave an apology, we have a bridge to sell to him. Before you continue reading this, let’s get one thing […]

We at Latino Rebels are honored to present the latest from Olmeca: “The Browning of America,” in collaboration with Puente Vision and NDLON. Here’s the backstory behind this song and the music video: Olmeca is rising hip-hop figure from Los Angeles with his own family story of migration. He’s been writing pro-migrant songs and performing […]

Here is what Democracy Now! covered earlier today: This is the one angle the U.S. media should be exploring more. Kudos to our friends at Democracy Now! for shedding a light on it.

As the news spreads about #Ayotzinapa all over the world though social media, here are three videos you need to check out. From last night’s Netherlands-Mexico friendly in Amsterdam, Mexican sportswriter Iván Cañada recorded a Vine of Mexican fans shouting “¡Justicia!” (“Justice!”) during the match. So far, the Vine has gotten over 500,000 loops. There […]

Rebel Diaz, some of the hardest-working group of musicians we know, are back from their live Ferguson reporting to team up with The Reminders, who recently completed a successful tour opening for Ms. Lauryn Hill. With Aja Black on the chorus, and Big Samir with the Rebel Diaz brothers holding down the verses, the Kid Koi-produced, […]

Earlier today we got a few tweets from @joeltana (who quite frankly is one of our favorite Twitter followers because he is incredibly smart and oh yeah, a very nice person, too.) Here were the tweets: .@latinorebels homies, Oakland had a solidarity event for Ayotzinapa last night. Pics https://t.co/rpx3HcIw0j video https://t.co/msY4cYa0Cg — Joel Tena (@joeltena) […]

This weekend, while we were all finding out more about what is happening now in Mexico, Rebel Report’s R.J. Aguiar shares his take in our latest episode on Flama. Connect the dots, people. Mexico matters, and R.J. explains why: Post by Flama.

Editor’s Note: We received the following essay last night from political activist Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera, originally from Mexico City and currently studying in the United States. The images featured are courtesy of MásDe131, a site that covers Mexico’s protest movement. Submitted to LatinoRebels.com by Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez. Comparto artículo que escribí para @latinorebels sobre Ayotzinapa y la […]

This morning, Jesús Murillo Karam, Mexico’s attorney general, is not expressing any regret for the “Ya me cansé” (“I am so tired of this”) comment he made last Friday at the end of a press conference where he said that three members of the Guerreros Unidos gang admitted to burning the bodies of the 43 missing Ayoztinapa […]

[View the story “CRUNCH Mexico Blasted for Tweet Joke About #Ayotzinapa” on Storify]

The following video is in Spanish. It provides a history of state violence and corruption in Mexico. As the video channel says in English: The straw that broke the camel’s back. We do not fear. Tlatelolco, June 10, Aguas Blancas, Acteal, Atenco, Nursery ABC Tlatlaya, Ayotzinapa: A cumulative violence of murders and disappearances have raised […]

After trending globally last night on Twitter, videos are starting to appear on Vine and YouTube showing scenes from last night’s demonstrations in Mexico City as well as calls by Mexicans expressing how they are already “tired” of the country’s situation. The #YaMeCansé hashtag was created after Jesús Murillo Karam, Mexico’s attorney general, was finishing […]

[View the story “After Tragic News of Mexican Students, #YaMeCansé Trends Globally on Twitter” on Storify]