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Directors Cristina Costantini and Kareem Tabsch shed light on the human behind the extravagance, the soul behind the screen.

The power structure is Trump happy, a lust-filled fervor infects them, one that the unwary might attribute to some kind of Viagra for political xenophobia, powered and fueled by little elephant-shaped pills.

Originally from Puerto Rico, Mr. Ramón Cruz has a long history of involvement within the environmental movement.

More than five decades later, the struggle against police brutality is still relevant today.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Statues, street names, plazas and even the body of conquistador Juan Ponce de León himself: Spain left a nearly indelible legacy in Puerto Rico that attracts hordes of tourists every year, but some activists are trying to erase it as they join a U.S. movement to eradicate symbols of oppression.

He was an ardent believer of the racial tenets of the moment and in particular, that “civilized nations” should act as protectors of “barbarous” ones.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Protesters tore down more statues across the United States, expanding the razing in a San Francisco park to the writer of America’s national anthem and the general who won the country’s Civil War that ended widespread slavery.

Today on Latino USA, a story from over 100 years ago, when an intrepid Texas state representative named José Tomás Canales led an investigation into the abuses of the Texas Rangers.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A man was shot Monday night as protesters in New Mexico’s largest city tried to tear down a bronze statue of a Spanish conquistador outside the Albuquerque Museum, prompting the city to announce that the statue would be removed until officials determine the next steps.

Latino Rebels Radio: June 14, 2020

LONDON (AP) — From Confederate monuments in the United States to statues of British slave traders, memorials erected in honor of historical figures have become a focus of protests around the world.

We, Black and Brown people, are not and should not be each other’s enemy.

Just watch it.

PHOENIX — The power base in Arizona has shifted in the past 20 years, and we have the state’s Republican Party to both thank and blame for that.

In Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood known as “La Villita” community members were outraged and wanted answers after a large and slow-moving plume covered their homes, backyards, and vehicles in toxic particulate matter.

She will celebrate her birthday with a live-stream benefit for communities directly impacted by coronavirus on Saturday, May 16. 

BEND, Ore. (AP) — In the early 1990s, the population of Bend was around 25,000 and leaned Republican. A lumber mill operated in the Oregon high-desert town along the banks of a scenic river.

There are no mindless or unbiased witnesses. There are different kinds of witnesses whose witnessing varies within an action scenario.

In the 1970s, a string of devastating fires would turn the South Bronx into a symbol of urban decay. Latino USA visits the South Bronx to interview Vivian Vázquez Irizarry, co-director of the documentary ‘Decade of Fire.’

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitians on Sunday remembered the victims of the massive earthquake that killed more than 100,000 people a decade ago, although the ceremony was marked by a protest against political mismanagement now and then.

Nietzsche warned me about gazing too long into the abyss, but I didn’t listen. It gazed back into me.