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Despite More Comprehensive Data, New Study Says Latinos Continue to Suffer Greatly From Gun Violence in U.S.
“The homicide victimization rate for Hispanics in the United States is nearly twice as high as the homicide victimization rate for whites,” the study said.
Peru Has a New President, Its Fifth in Five Years: Who Is Pedro Castillo?
Castillo is not a liberal—he’s a leftist with a social agenda.
From EL FARO ENGLISH: An Interview With Guatemala’s Exiled Anti-Corruption Prosecutor
For more than three years, Juan Francisco Sandoval headed the Special Prosecutor’s Office Against Impunity (FECI), a prosecutorial unit specialized in high-stakes corruption cases investigating the upper echelons of Guatemalan politics and business.
Mexico Says Officials Spent $61 Million on Pegasus Spyware
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s top security official said Wednesday that two previous administrations spent $61 million to buy Pegasus spyware that has been implicated in government surveillance of opponents and journalists around the world.
Senator Rubio Slams Google Over Internet Balloons for Cuba
“They don’t want Internet in Cuba because they think it endangers their servers,” Rubio told Latino Rebels on Monday. “They have servers on the island. They want to do business there. That’s the problem with them.”
A New Website Is Tracking Cases of People Who Have Gone Missing in Cuba Since July 11
According to the new Cuba Missing project, organizers said that they have registered 704 cases.
#ICYMI: The Powerful January 6 Testimony by a Dominican Immigrant Who Served in Iraq and Is Now a U.S. Capitol Police Sergeant
“As a child in the Dominican Republic, I looked up to the United States as a land of opportunity and a place to better myself.”
Tension Rises in Rincón Due to Police Force and Construction on Beach
Complaints from protesters and activists range from excessive police force to unjustified arrests. Several videos on social media have recorded how police officers have attacked the people protesting.
Kaine Cites 2005 Precedent for Including Immigration Pathway to Citizenship in Budget Reconciliation
“There’s a 2005 reconciliation bill that had a significant immigration component to it that included changing status,” Kaine (D-VA) told Latino Rebels on Monday afternoon in the Senate tunnels.
In the Midst of the Delta Variant Surge, a Cautious Ray of Hope With the Decline of Latino COVID-19 Deaths
Despite much darkness and gloom regarding the massive loss of Latino lives and the recent surge of the Delta variant, there is a ray of hope.
Portrait Of: Carmen Maria Machado (A Latino USA Podcast)
Carmen Maria Machado talks about writing memoir, her fascination with horror, grappling with her mental health during the pandemic, and confronting her Cuban-American identity while growing up in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Haiti Arrests Top Security Official in Slain President Probe
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Authorities in Haiti arrested a top official who served as general security coordinator when President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated, his attorney told The Associated Press on Monday.
Where Are the Missing Protesters in Colombia?
One of them was Duván Felipe Barros.
OPINION: DeSantis Keeps Refusing to Prioritize Disasters in Florida
What is DeSantis doing while this public health disaster unfolds and 38,741 Floridians die so far under his watch? He is selling anti-mask campaign merch.
Menendez Bursts Rubio’s Internet Balloons Proposal for Cuba
“If you have balloons, it has an omnidirectional signal. I know the balloon is there. I know the signal comes down. I block it,” said Menendez, who like Rubio, is of Cuban descent.
That Time My Mother Wasn’t Racially Profiled (Or What I Learned When the Officer Let Her Drive Away)
“Is that…for me..?” my mother asked, looking in her rearview mirror. I turned around and saw the red and blue flashing lights she was referring to.
On The Other Side (A Latino USA Podcast)
We look at two Trump-era policies, the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) and Title 42 expulsions to see where they are under President Biden.
DACA Recipient on Meeting With VP Harris: “I Came Out of There Hopeful Even if I’m Realistic”
A group of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients met with Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday in Washington, D.C. to discuss a federal judge’s ruling in Texas that declared the end of the program.
Volunteers Hunting for Mexico’s ‘Disappeared’ Become Targets
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The mainly female volunteers who fan out across Mexico to hunt for the bodies of murdered relatives are themselves increasingly being killed, putting to the test the government’s promise to help them in their quest for a final shred of justice: a chance to mourn.
Texas Begins Jailing Migrants on Trespassing Charges
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas is beginning to arrest migrants on trespassing charges along the U.S.-Mexico border as part of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s actions that he says are needed to slow the number of border crossings, jailing at least 10 people so far with more on the way, authorities said Thursday.
The End of DACA?
Latino Rebels Radio: July 22, 2021