NoMames

Yesterday we posted about the new "Latino" jersey premiering for the AHL's Rockford IceHogs on November 16, and besides one person on our site who respectfully disagreed, the majority of our Facebook and Twitter communities thought the #NoMames for a "Los IceHogs Night" was well-deserved. Apparently, the IceHogs got the blessing of Rockford's local coalition of […]

Ugh. Deadspin reported that the Rockford IceHogs, the American Hockey League affiliate of the Chicago Blackhawks, will be holding a Los IceHogs Night on November 16 in "celebration" of Hispanic Heritage Weekend. Besides wearing some of the most awful and racist jerseys ever, fans will also be getting the jerseys, free maracas, and there will […]

We know that The Daily Bleach is a satire site. Think of it like a dumb person's The Onion. The Bleach is known for skewering anyone. However, unlike The Onion—whose brand clearly screams satire and comedy—the Bleach is on a slippery slope and is unethical. It does very little to clearly disclose that all that […]

Are you kidding us, TMZ? Are you f-ing kidding us? Here is what passes for TMZ's take on Puerto Rico's latest plebiscite results. Dear Harvey Levin, you have no damn clue about Puerto Rico, about its people, or about its history with the United States. If you have real cojones (which you don't), you would […]

Today, the video section of Noticiero Univision posted a report with a headline that read "Members of the Klu Klux Klan Celebrate Arpaio's Victory." As we watched the video, the reporter kept saying that the members allegedly were part of the KKK and never really reported that they were actually members. Throughout the video we […]

With less than a week to go until Election Day, the Mitt Romney campaign is broadcasting a new Spanish-language ad in Florida that goes straight to the Latino fear factor. As reported by The Miami Herald, the following ad says it all. We are bit surprised that the Romney campaign forgot to add Daniel Ortega, […]

Yesterday, our founder wrote an opinion piece about Pedro Rios, a Republican candidate for California's State Assembly who is facing a controversy in his district when it was revealed in the local Bakersfield press that was smuggled into the United States from Mexico as an undocumented youth. Rios, a beneficiary of President Reagan's 1986 amnesty […]

Looks like the recent attention that Maricopa County in Arizona (the same county where Sheriff Joe Arpaio is for running re-election and the same county where over 36,000 new voters were registered to defeat America's Toughest Sheriff) has finally gotten county recorder Helen Purcell to respond. After two errors that listed the incorrect Election Day […]

Last week, we were one of the first outlets outside of Arizona to report about how the Maricopa Country Election Department admitted to having misprinted the wrong date for Election Day on Spanish-language ballots. The story went viral and appeared on several national outlets. It was seen an embarrassing mistake for the county, this year […]

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AT JULIORVARELA.COM So, this interview from Fox Business' Varney and Co. with Puerto Rico Secretary of Commerce José Pérez-Riera is quite telling. The level of ignorance from the American media is sad. Let's get this straight: you can disagree with Pérez-Riera, but the interviewers should at least respect the guy. When will Puerto Ricans wake […]

Ok, we are still feeling a bit dirty that we got mentioned on Fox News. And they totally missed our point about Eva Longoria's unfortunate rewteets, so we wanted to offer our response to it. Dear Fox News: Thanks for the mention, but… We never said we were "offended," although we did say that what […]

You know when you have pages like NBC Latino and Remezcla sending you posts about a new Latina Disney princess, the Rebeldes have to check it out. Ok, at first, we thought the princess, named Princess Sofia, looked like a young Christina Hendricks from Mad Men. Not Latina. But like NBC's piece said, let's assume […]

After facing a Twitter firestorm from conservative outlets like Drudge, Breitbart and the Washington Examiner for retweeting a vulgar tweet that called Mitt Romney a "misogynistic/racist twat," actress/activist and Obama for America campaign co-chairman Eva Longoria took to her social networks today to issue an apology and clarify her intentions. According to the HuffPost's Latino […]

Yesterday we reported the story of Christian Santiago Tapia, social media manager and adviser to the governor of Michoacán, who via Facebook called for the burning of teacher colleges and student protesters in the Mexican state. The protesters were raided by Mexican police on Monday, and several disturbing images have been shared online. Here is just one […]

UPDATE: As of Thursday afternoon, October 18, Longoria has tweeted out an apology. You would think that after retweeting and deleting a tasteless prison rape tweet when describing the debate between Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan, Obama for America national campaign co-chair and actress/activist Eva Longoria would have learned that it is […]

This just in from Maricopa County in Arizona. The county's election department admitted to an error on voter cards. According to a report by ABC 15, here is what happened: The Maricopa County Elections Department mistakenly listed the wrong date of the upcoming general election on an official government document. The error appears on a […]

Ben Affleck's ARGO came out October 12 and it is already getting Oscar buzz. The movie, based on a 1979 CIA successful rescue of six American diplomats in Iran, is good. Very good. Affleck deserves the kudos, except for one thing: instead of casting a Latino actor to play the movie's main character, Tony Méndez, […]

We understand. When you are a political junkie and are watching a debate and you think that your guy is doing an amazing job and you have your smart phone and you start tweeting your excitement, it might lead to major problems. Such is the case of Eva Longoria, who retweeted the following to her […]

We would think that this following ad from Disney World Latino (yes, people there is now a Disney World Latino) will play well to the mainstream. But here we go again: look at us! Dancing! Singing! We are different! Flaunting our "Latino-ness." Because it is Hispanic Heritage Month! When will campaigns such as these just stop […]

We really thought that CNN columnist Ruben Navarrette, Jr. would once again begin to raise the level of discussion with his opinions about US Latinos in the 21st century. Just last week, for example, Navarrette penned a column about the recent Kennedy Center controversy and how it continues to ignore US Latino honorees. It was […]

Hey, we understand that the following story from The Daily Kos is an interesting one. Titled "My (formerly)Republican Mama got a call from a Romney Canvasser," the writer makes a case about how demographics are changing in Florida. Our only biggest editorial criticism of the piece is this one: get a Spanish editor/copyeditor, please? The […]