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UPDATE, June 25: Huppenthal said he won’t resign. We won’t gloat, no, we really won’t, but there is something incredibly vindicating about the news that John Huppenthal, Arizona’s Superintendent of Public Instruction and the man who said that Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican American Studies program was a violation of state law, is also an […]

Yesterday a headline for Newsweek story about the current crisis on the US-Mexico border made us do a double-take and insert a WTF: “Honduras’ First Lady Says She Will Collect Her Country’s Child Border-Crashers.” We would expect such a headline from a Town Hall or a Breitbart, but this is Newsweek. Has the quality of one of […]

So about a month since Nate Cohn of The New York Times boldly proclaimed that more Latinos were becoming “white” after basing his “analysis” on a partial report chronicled by a Pew senior research reporter, the actual authors of the study Cohn had referenced finally offered a more specific clarification about their initial study. Here […]

File this one under “Colonialism is Still Colonialism.” A new social media page calling for Puerto Rico’s return to Spain has gotten media attention on the island, the U.S. and of course, Spain. And guess what? The organizers are serious about it. A Facebook page is calling (in Spanish) for the “Reunification of Puerto Rico […]

This has to be a joke. We just got this tweet from a follower: @latinorebels You see this BS?! Two-time GOP loser changes name to Cesar Chavez… http://t.co/G3PrKKcMuW http://t.co/OR2LlvHTgi — Malena (@12thLady) June 2, 2014 So we clicked on the story. Apparently… it’s true. Just look at the ballot. Here is what the Capitol Times story […]

We got the following tip via an email from a follower who said, “WTF.” Looks like the city of Coachella in California (home to Coachellafest) is going on a massive appropriation binge for Día de los Muertos, with the creation of Día de los Muertos USA. We guess organizers forgot about the whole Disney social […]

We got this from @hispanictips. Apparently, Korean pop star Hyorin of the group Sistar is getting all Latin in a new ad campaign for “Maté Tea of the Sun,” owned by Coca Cola. (Yes, we know that it is not “maté” in Spanish, it’s “mate.”) Here is some of the translated copy to English: Hyorin […]

And the cultural appropriation hits keep on coming. Today, we present the Zapatista Burrito Bar from the city of Newcastle in clueless old England. We guess the locals love it, since a second location is already being built. According to its Twitter profile, it likes to say “HOLA, GRINGOS” and encourages patrons to “GRAB A […]

It appears that Slate’s new obsession with maps is doing anything and everything to avoid talking about the obvious. Last week it was all about a viral language post which didn’t even stop to acknowledge how mainstream Spanish has become. This week Slate and Ben Bratt are trying to replicate viral love by focusing on […]

Yesterday our news feeds were burning up with a piece published by Slate about the many languages spoken in U.S. households. The article, written by Ben Blatt, went viral because it visually confirmed that yes, the U.S. is really a multilingual society. However, it is Blatt’s first map that really floored us, and even though […]

Can you believe that the whole MSNBC/GMA #CincoDeFallo only happened last week? Leave it John Oliver and his new HBO show to put a final bow on this story. (Technically, the Cinco De Fallo fiascos had to to with an ethnic group, but still.) Watch. (h/t Fusion)

Now that the MSNBC’s #CincodeFallo “Way Too Early” segment pretty much went global, this afternoon Hugo Balta, President of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) posted a follow-up comment on a public open Facebook group run by NAHJ: Balta also tweeted out the following: Grateful 2 @ThomasARoberts @NBCLOU 4 reaching out…candid conversation on diversity […]

While national news channels had their own #CincoDeFallo moments, a Twitter tip from college student Maria Fernanda Andia @mfaeb also got our attention: Couldn't be more disappointed with #UMD 's dining service making employees wear fake mustaches & sombreros for Cinco de Mayo @presidentloh — Maria Fernanda Andia (@mfaeb) May 5, 2014 LT Offensive & […]

UPDATE, May 9, 2014, 11:00 am ET: Looks like Spacey finally wised up. Or did he? I guess nobody got the joke. I was in character as Francis Underwood in House of Cards, not myself! I don't know jack about Mexican politics — Kevin Spacey (@KevinSpacey) May 8, 2014 By the way, there are already […]

UPDATE, May 6, 2014, 5:30pmET: Spencer’s Twitter account shared an apology: Got carried w excitement over Cinco de Mayo celebration on GMA-sorry and thankful to @johnqabc @prrosado @julito77-u make great points.    — Lara Spencer (@LaraSpencer) May 6, 2014 Well, we might as well call out every U.S. media outlet for its blatant insensitivity when it […]

UPDATE, 9:00 am EST, May 7, 2014 Two Instagrams of apologies. A bit too corporate? UPDATE, 1:00 pm EST, May 6, 2014 The latest from Hugo Balta, President of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ): UPDATE MSNBC TO ISSUE APOLOGY ON THE AIR: from MSNBC EP Alex Korson….Hugo, here is the apology we have […]

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We won’t pretend that #CincoDeFallo came from us, it was @MichaelCalienes who coined the phrase. Nonetheless, we are glad that he did, and then let us know about it, because how best to describe all the failed ideas from brands today? Yup, #CincoDeFallo. Michael started the day with a few good ones. #CincoDeFallo RT @Gain: […]

Earlier today, we shared a post about a Cinco de Mayo breakfast hosted by Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden. It got some attention, for the obvious reasons listed here. (By the way, we must credit the label “Hispandering” to the fabulous @AdrianaMaestas.) This afternoon the Hispandering from the White House […]

Hey, everyone, did you know that today is Cinco de Mayo? You know what that means, right? All-out “Hispandering!” The following is from an actual press pool email we received today from the Office of the Vice President. Yes, of the United States. This guy. Good morning from the Naval Observatory where your pooler is […]

The public relations push for Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto continues. EPN will be on the cover of Mexico’s Rolling Stone magazine now. Talk about bizarre. As you might imagine, the image of Peña Nieto as a “reformer” has always been in question. We’re not surprised that some Twitter profiles have already started to slam […]