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Mexico Sanctioned for Not Protecting Endangered Porpoise

Mexico acknowledged Saturday it faces sanctions from the international wildlife body known as CITES for not doing enough to protect the vaquita, a porpoise that is the world’s smallest cetacean and most endangered marine mammal.

  • Mar 27, 2023
  • 10:46 AM

Mexican President Pushes Back on US Criticism on Cartel Violence

Mexico’s president on Friday angrily rejected comments by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken that the Mexican government has lost control over parts of the country.

  • Mar 24, 2023
  • 3:58 PM

‘Argentina, 1985’: History And Memory (A Latino USA Podcast)

Antonia Cereijido interviews former prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno Ocampo about his real-life experience that inspired the Oscar-nominated film ‘Argentina, 1985.’

  • Mar 24, 2023
  • 10:36 AM

LGBTQ Rights Under Attack

Julio welcomes Karma Chavez, professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and author of ‘Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities,’ to discuss the current legislative assaults on LGBTQ rights.

  • Mar 23, 2023
  • 5:24 PM

UN Says Haiti Gangs Killed More Than 530 People Since January, Calls for Armed Troops

The United Nations Human Rights Office is once again calling for a multinational force to intervene in Haiti after its latest report found that gangs there have killed at least 531 people, injured 300, and kidnapped 277 since the year began.

  • Mar 23, 2023
  • 2:03 PM

Former Puerto Rican Mayor Found Guilty of Corruption

Ángel Pérez Otero, who was mayor of the northern city of Guaynabo, had been accused of accepting almost monthly payments of $5,000 for nearly two years in exchange for securing a more than $1 million road work contract for a local company.

  • Mar 23, 2023
  • 10:29 AM

The Tao of San Juan Uber Drivers (OPINION)

Moving back to Puerto Rico after 15 years of living on the West Coast can be difficult, but most locals are more than happy to help you fall in love with the island again.

  • Mar 22, 2023
  • 1:33 PM

Bullfighting Ban Faces Critical Legislative Vote in Colombia

After Colombia’s Senate approved a nationwide ban in December, the House of Representatives, which narrowly voted down an earlier ban in November, could take up the latest legislation in the coming weeks when it returns from its three-month recess.

  • Mar 22, 2023
  • 10:48 AM

What the Anti-Cuba Protest at the World Baseball Classic Was Really About (OPINION)

On Sunday the U.S. played Cuba in the World Baseball Classic to a crowd of fans of the game and protesters against the Cuban regime. The goal of the demonstrations was presumably to bring awareness to Cuba’s totalitarian regime, but it was really about proximity to whiteness.

  • Mar 21, 2023
  • 5:52 PM

Venezuela’s Oil Czar Resigns Amid Corruption Investigations

The man responsible for running Venezuela’s oil industry —which pays for virtually everything in the troubled country, from subsidized food to ridiculously cheap gas— has quit amid investigations into alleged corruption among officials in various parts of the government.

  • Mar 21, 2023
  • 12:33 PM

Reforesting Mangrove Trees Could Prove Key to Storm Defense in Puerto Rico

During the last few decades, illegal construction projects have encroached on Puerto Rico’s beautiful beaches, leading to the destruction of mangrove forests that protect the coastline from storms and rising sea levels.

  • Mar 20, 2023
  • 4:55 PM

Strong Earthquake Kills at Least 14 in Ecuador, 1 in Peru

A strong earthquake shook southern Ecuador and northern Peru on Saturday, killing at least 15 people, trapping others under rubble, and sending rescue teams out into streets littered with debris and fallen power lines.

  • Mar 20, 2023
  • 10:54 AM

The Legislative Attack on Immigrant Communities in Florida (OPINION)

In late February, Gov. Ron DeSantis unveiled a series of extreme anti-immigrant proposals for the upcoming legislative session, including repealing previous state laws that offered legal rights and protections to undocumented people

  • Mar 17, 2023
  • 5:46 PM

US State Department Announces More Aid for Venezuelan Migrants

the U.S. Department of State is allocating more than $140 million in additional humanitarian aid and $31 million in development assistance to “respond to the needs of vulnerable Venezuelans in Venezuela, Venezuelan refugees and migrants, and their generous host communities across the region,” according to a press release by Secretary Antony Blinken.

  • Mar 17, 2023
  • 3:57 PM

Top Court Ruling Unleashes Permit Upheaval in Puerto Rico

A ruling by Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court has thrown into limbo hundreds of thousands of business and construction permits issued by a U.S. territory already struggling to attract investors amid an economic crisis.

  • Mar 17, 2023
  • 10:28 AM

Migrant Child Labor Exposed

Following a series of reports on migrant children being exploited in the meatpacking industry, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Rose Godinez, legal and policy counsel for the Nebraska chapter of the ACLU and the child of meatpacking workers herself, to break down an industry rife with exploitation and retaliation under unsafe conditions.

  • Mar 16, 2023
  • 5:08 PM

Puerto Rican Director Kris Mercado Premieres First Feature Film, ‘If You Were the Last,’ at SXSW (INTERVIEW)

Puerto Rican director Kristian Mercado calls his sci-fi rom-com ‘If You Were the Last,’ which premiered at this year’s South by Southwest festival in Austin, a rare opportunity for a Latino filmmaker “to do things that are really outside the box.”

  • Mar 16, 2023
  • 1:00 PM

Indigenous Farmworker Leader Bids for Guatemala Presidency

An Indigenous female farmworker leader hopes to become Guatemala’s next president. But Thelma Cabrera faces an uphill fight after the country’s Electoral Tribunal refused to allow her to register her candidacy.

  • Mar 16, 2023
  • 10:49 AM

‘Stop Cop City’: Activists in Atlanta Oppose Proposed Police Training Center

The plan to build the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, dubbed “Cop City,” has seen people of all backgrounds unite and organize against it, including Atlanta’s Black residents, various religious organizations, Indigenous people, climate activists, college students, and families affected by police violence.

  • Mar 15, 2023
  • 5:03 PM

Musk Brought Internet to Brazil’s Amazon; Criminals Love It

Starlink, a division of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, has almost 4,000 low-orbit satellites across the skies, connecting people in remote corners of the Amazon. The lightweight, high-speed internet system has also proved a new and valuable tool for Brazil’s illegal miners.

  • Mar 15, 2023
  • 12:27 PM

Justice for Susana Morales

The family of 16-year-old Susana Morales, who went missing while walking home in July 2022, is seeking justice after her body was discovered in early February by police in Gwinnett County, Georgia and the later arrest of a former police officer as a suspect.

  • Mar 14, 2023
  • 5:29 PM

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