Injustice

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The number of homicides in Mexico has grown during the new coronavirus pandemic, including a 9.2% spike in killings of women, according to government figures released Monday.

The documentary offers real hope about a future generation of fierce Brown and Black girls ready to put in the work to make social justice more than just a dream. 

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.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mayor of Portland demanded Friday that President Donald Trump remove militarized federal agents he deployed to the city after some detained people on streets far from federal property they were sent to protect.

In the last weeks, cases in Homestead have risen to an all-time high. Homestead is an agricultural town —just 30 miles south of Miami— that is home to a growing number of indigenous people and immigrants from Guatemala, Mexico and Haiti many of whom work in the fields and local plant nurseries. The produce they grow is essential to the nation’s food supply.

In America, police brutality is often viewed in a Black and White narrative leaving Indigenous, Latino, and other people of color out of the conversation.

Los sistemas carcelarios viven dentro de nosotros.

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

Different forms of activism have played a large role in the current Black Lives Matter protests.

As a nation, we will not find effective ways of addressing issues of race if we continue viewing it predominantly or simply in Black and White.

“We’ve been requesting, demanding and now imploring the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department to release that autopsy report to the family so they could have some answers,” Nicholas Yoka, a lawyer for Guardado’s family told Latino Rebels.

Carceral frameworks live inside of us. They aren’t discrete systems outside ourselves that we can dismantle without critically examining how they shape our ideas, strategies, and visions.

The latest episode of Latino Rebels Radio

The story of Vanessa Guillén has captured the nation today, following reports that unidentified body remains were found—and some suspect they are hers.

“We need answers. We need full transparency from the city and they are not giving us that. This is very shady,” Joshua Summerville of Lancaster told Latino Rebels. “They are telling us that there are no cameras outside the City Hall, the fire station and the businesses around the park?”

PHOENIX (AP) — The Tucson, Arizona, police chief on Wednesday offered his resignation two months after a 27-year-old man died while handcuffed and placed face-down, resulting in the resignation of three officers the chief said had violated department policy.

Host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomed L.A. Taco’s Memo Torres, who has been covering the story since the beginning, and Latino Rebels special correspondent Melinna Bobadilla, who covered the Sunday #JusticeForAndrés protest.

Latino Rebels spoke with Fran Tirado and Eliel Cruz recently about the process of organizing the march, what comes next for the movement for trans Black lives, and the importance of allyship.

Guardado was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the LA County Sheriff’s department’s statement on the matter. The incident is now under investigation.

Nearly all (89%) respondents agree with the statement that they “understand the pain and frustration that the Black community feels right now with law enforcement because Latinos face similar experiences with law enforcement.”

Sandy Guardiola was killed in her home on October 4, 2017 by a Canandaigua (NY) police officer. She was a mother who proudly identified as a Black Puerto Rican woman.