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This is perhaps one of the most ironic political stories we have ever seen. Here’s scoop: yesterday Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), the guy who thinks undocumented individuals can never ever become US citizens, released his birth certificate, according to The Dallas Morning News: Born in Canada to an American mother, Ted Cruz became an instant […]

It is described as a freak accident, because as far as automobile wrecks go, for a bus to hit a lamppost that falls on a baby in a stroller, well, it’s just not supposed to happen that way. But that’s how it went, and 8-month-old Angelie Paredes is gone. But this July 30 “freak accident,” […]

That was quick. Earlier today Voto Latino posted a picture on its Facebook taken at an Urban Outfitters. Reaction was intense, to put it mildly. (Whole story here.) Tonight the UFW tweeted the following to us: The UFW also followed up with an email to us: UFW attorneys sent a Cease and Desist letter to […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: We asked Blanca E. Vega to share her thoughts about the HuffPost Live “Dream 9” segment she appeared on this past week. Blanca is a currently a doctoral candidate at Columbia University, and is also the Director of the Higher Education Opportunity Program at Marymount Manhattan College. Her blog is called Race-work, Race-love and you […]

Yesterday morning we made our case for deporting Iowa congressman Steve King. You know, because he said the following when talking about DREAMers and a path to citizenship: “For everyone who’s a valedictorian, there’s another 100 out there that weigh 130 pounds and they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling 75 pounds […]

EDITOR’S NOTE; After a hiatus from published writing, Author Ivan Sanchez returns with his latest opinion piece. Welcome back, Ivan. Several months back I put the pen down and told myself I wasn’t going to write anymore freelance articles. The reasoning behind my decision was simple. Media, especially social media now moves so fast that […]

Yesterday, the Congressional Appropriations Subcommittee approved the Obama administration’s $2.5 million budget for the Justice Department to oversee a federally-sponsored plebiscite in Puerto Rico, according to El Nuevo Día. The proposal states that the Justice Department must oversee a non-partisan voter education plan and  a plebiscite which must include several solutions to the status issue. […]

Chile is one of the most restrictive abortion countries in the world. How restrictive? This is what Human Rights Watch says: Abortion has constituted a crime in Chile since 1874. The 1874 penal code, still in force, prohibits abortion in all cases. In 1931, a national health law (Código Sanitario) gave doctors the possibility to […]

Latino Rebels welcomes a new contributor to our page: Luis Marentes. This post was originally published on Luis’ blog. You can follow Luis on Twitter: @marentesluis. For most of 2013 I have carefully, perhaps obsessively, followed the debate around comprehensive immigration reform. Beginning with the emergence of the “Gang of 8” the process has been […]

Fireworks and a barbeque on the 4th of July are as American as it gets (ok, maybe you’ll have to add an apple pie, but still). And while the celebrations are always fun, what is left behind afterwards is anything but. I was reminded of this by Raul Colon’s blog post yesterday on the trashy […]

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee has agreed to hold a full day hearing on the issue of Puerto Rico’s status and the results of a non-binding plebiscite held last November 6, according to reports from El Nuevo Día. Initially postponed from June 11, committee leaders Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) finally agreed […]

So maybe Marc Cherry and Eva Longoria should be thankful for the Huffington Post piece that Tanisha Love Ramirez wrote on May 3, which led to Longoria’s response to Ramirez, which led to a piece by the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan for Latinas, which led to more posts about the show, especially one by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez […]

Yesterday, attorney David Cohn, who represents the family of David Sal Silva, announced the the filing of several federal civil rights claims “against the Kern County Sheriff’s Office, six sheriff’s deputies and a sergeant, two California Highway Patrol officers, the county and the state alleging excessive police force killed [Silva],” according to local reports. Cohn […]

Latino Rebels is running a series of pieces by local Bakersfield journalist/writer Nicholas Belardes about the in-custody death of David Sal Silva. This is the series’ third post. You can read “Part One: Culture of Drugs” here, and “Part Two: Culture of Violence” here. (All photos here should be credited to Nicholas Belardes.) Part Three: Analysis Of A Protest BAKERSFIELD, […]

SAN JUAN – Yesterday Ricardo Rosselló, Michael González Cruz, and Joel Isaac Díaz, leaders of Boricua ¡Ahora Es! (BAE), a political advocacy group that believes in changing Puerto Rico’s current territorial status with the United States, filed a joint complaint to the Puerto Rico’s Commission on Civil Rights, saying that that the civil rights of […]

Yesterday The Bakersfield California reported new developments in the May 8 in-custody death of David Sal Silva, a case that has garnered continued local attention and major social media interest, yet has yet to reach national media levels. According to reporter Christine Bedell, the “attorney for the family of David Sal Silva plans to file […]

Today Latino Rebels were part of an inaugural roundtable discussion broadcast on NPR’s AltLatino. Our founder, @julito77, joined the shows co-cohosts, Jasmine Gard and Felix Contreras, and our friend Marisa Treviño of Latina Lista. We talked about three topics: “Devious Maids,” the tragedy of undocumented minors entering the U.S. alone, and the developments that led […]

In 1971, César Chávez moved his home and the headquarters of the United Farm Workers union from Delano to La Paz, a property encompassing 187 acres in the Tehachapi Mountains of eastern Kern County, California. Kern is the fifth-largest county in California with nearly 50% of its population of Mexican American descent. When he died […]

UPDATE: Carlos Velasquez is of Colombian and Puerto Rico descent. Last Friday night on CNN Latino, Madelyn Lugo, Chairperson of the non-profit National Puerto Rican Day Parade, Inc. (NPRDP), gave a nine-minute interview defending her organization surrounding the recent developments of an official Coors Light parade beer can that has generated controversy in the Puerto […]

Latino Rebels will be running a series of pieces by local Bakersfield journalist/writer Nick Belardes about the in-custody death of David Sal Silva. This is the series’ first post. Part One: Culture of Drugs BAKERSFIELD, CA – There’s a culture of drugs in the cities where we live in America. Amid the urban streets of […]

Earlier today on The Michael Slate Show out of KPFK in Los Angeles, the father of David Sal Silva blamed police for murdering his son. In an emotional interview packed with honesty and outrage (segment recording below—the full show can be accessed here), Sal Silva discussed the his son’s May 8 in-custody death in Bakersfield, […]