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US Weighs Policy on Venezuela as Maduro Signals Flexibility

MIAMI (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s government is intensifying efforts to court the Biden administration as the new U.S. president weighs whether to risk a political backlash in Florida and ease up on sanctions seeking to isolate the socialist leader.

  • Apr 27, 2021
  • 12:06 PM

OPINION: We Can’t Talk About Adam Toledo Without Talking About 7th Grade

I want to talk about what it means to be a 7th grader. Adam Toledo attended 7th grade.

  • Apr 27, 2021
  • 9:46 AM

More Members of CHC Support Follow-Up Investigation of 2019 Sexual Harassment Report

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Three members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) told Latino Rebels on Monday that they support an investigation into sexual harassment allegations of Capitol custodial staff that were published in a 2019 report by the Architect of the Capitol’s Office of Inspector General (OIG).

  • Apr 27, 2021
  • 9:08 AM

El Gobierno de Puerto Rico nunca hizo las pruebas que establecía el protocolo para el regreso a la escuela

Una investigación del Centro de Periodismo Investigativo (CPI) encontró que ni el DS ni el Departamento de Educación hicieron las pruebas de COVID-19 antes de la apertura en abril ni durante la clases presenciales.

  • Apr 27, 2021
  • 8:23 AM

Census: Texas Gains Congress Seats, California Loses First Time

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States’ population growth has declined to its slowest rate since the Great Depression, the Census Bureau said Monday, while the nation’s political center of gravity keeps shifting further to the Republican-led South and West. Texas, Florida and other Sun Belt states are gaining congressional seats as chillier climes like New York and Ohio lose them.

  • Apr 26, 2021
  • 6:02 PM

OPINION: This Time, at Least, the System Got It Right

It was the only logical and moral conclusion, and still it seemed almost unimaginable.

  • Apr 26, 2021
  • 5:42 PM

Harris Meets Virtually With Guatemalan President

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris told Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei Monday that the U.S. is planning to increase relief to the Northern Triangle region and “strengthen our cooperation” to better manage the steep increase in migration at the U.S. southern border.

  • Apr 26, 2021
  • 5:31 PM

OPINION: What Just Happened at the Academy Awards?

I’m not willing to say it was a bad night for the Latinx community.

  • Apr 26, 2021
  • 5:13 PM

Protests Reveal Generational Divide in Immigrant Communities

BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (AP) — When protests began in a Minneapolis suburb after a white police officer fatally shot a Black man, 21-year-old Fatumata Kromah took to the street, pushing for change she says is essential to her Liberian immigrant community.

  • Apr 26, 2021
  • 3:42 PM

OPINION: I Will Never Watch the Killings of Black and Brown Children

Why do these videos continue to be released to the public, as if the word of a witness, mother, or father isn’t enough?

  • Apr 26, 2021
  • 12:23 PM

OAS Rights Group: ‘Critical’ Levels of Impunity in Mexico

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico is suffering “critical” failures in law enforcement and some of the worst levels of journalist killings outside a war zone, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights said in a report.

  • Apr 26, 2021
  • 11:32 AM

Mexico Will Build 17 Shelters for Child Migrants Near Southern Border

The shelters will be run by the country’s child welfare agency and will be located in different places in the states of Tabasco and Chiapas.

  • Apr 26, 2021
  • 10:07 AM

A Decisive Week for the El Mozote Case

One expert witness will testify that there was a systematic government cover-up involving both the Salvadoran and United States governments.

  • Apr 26, 2021
  • 8:54 AM

Reflections From Chicago, 4 Weeks After the Death of Adam Toledo (OPINION)

Police are not preventing crime in Chicago—they’re perpetuating violence.

  • Apr 25, 2021
  • 3:41 PM

Bolsonaro Says Army Could Be Called if Lockdown Leads to Chaos

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has suggested that the army might be called into the streets to restore order if lockdown measures against COVID-19 that he opposes lead to chaos.

  • Apr 24, 2021
  • 4:04 PM

Mexican Leader to Talk With Kamala Harris on Migration

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico announced Saturday that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will hold talks with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on May 7 to discuss migration amid an increase in underage migrants at the U.S. southern border.

  • Apr 24, 2021
  • 3:50 PM

Mexico’s Drought Reaches Critical Levels as Lakes Dry Up

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Drought conditions now cover 85% of Mexico, and residents of the nation’s central region said Thursday that lakes and reservoirs are simply drying up, including the country’s second-largest body of fresh water.

  • Apr 23, 2021
  • 5:37 PM

Pelosi Calls for Follow-Up on 2019 Report on Allegations of Sexual Harassment by Members Against Capitol Custodians

“I look forward to seeing the report,” Pelosi said on Thursday.

  • Apr 23, 2021
  • 5:09 PM

Outdated U.S. Policies Complicate Reincorporation of Former FARC Members in Colombia

“Get rid of this stigmatization that has us as terrorists.”

  • Apr 23, 2021
  • 3:23 PM

Venezuela Prosecutor Who Defied Maduro Implicated in Bribery

MIAMI (AP) — A former Venezuelan attorney general who defied President Nicolás Maduro by siding with his opponents has been implicated in a major corruption case involving a Venezuelan businessman who this week pleaded guilty to paying $1 million in bribes, two people familiar with the case said Thursday.

  • Apr 23, 2021
  • 8:44 AM

When Latina Journalists Face Discrimination in Newsrooms

Latino Rebels Radio: April 22, 2021

  • Apr 22, 2021
  • 11:37 PM

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