May 2013
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U.S. State Department Official Points to Success...
In response to questions as to whether the U.S. State Department authorized and approved a Gangnam-inspired “USA Visa Style” parody video produced and uploaded to YouTube by the U.S. Embassy in Costa Rica, a State Department official provided us with the following statement: Our embassies and consulates around the world are always looking for new and creative ways to educate and inform applicants...
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In Case You Missed It: The Daily Show Gives a Nod...
Hey, it was only a few seconds, but The Daily Show did indeed talk about the Disney “Día de los Muertos” fiasco from two weeks ago. Here it is.The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook
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Family and Community Remember David Silva, Victim...
As major developments are expected to be shared later today about the May 8 alleged police beating death of 33-year-old Bakersfield father David Silva, the Los Angeles Times covered a Thursday morning vigil for Silva (video link here) at the Kern County Superior Court building: About a dozen people gathered in front of the Kern County Superior Court building Thursday morning to protest the death...
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U.S. Embassy in Costa Rica Releases Awful “USA...
File this one under the following category: Some Ideas Are Best Left As Ideas. Who thought that doing a “USA Visa Style” video for the United States Embassy in Costa Rica was a great idea? Here’s the scoop: it’s not. Not now, not yesterday, not tomorrow. You can see the original video here, at the embassy’s official YouTube channel (18K+ views so far), but being the troublemakers that we are, we...
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Due to “Recent Events” (Code Word: David Silva...
Yesterday the Kern County Sheriff announced that it will postpone Saturday’s “Law Enforcement Day” because of “recent events.” Here is the full statement: The Kern County Sheriff’s Office has decided to postpone Law Enforcement Day at the Sheriff’s Office, which had been scheduled for Saturday May 18th. The Sheriff’s Office planned the event as a day for the community to tour our facility, view...
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In Case You Missed It: Colbert Addresses the...
This past week Stephen Colbert addressed the controversy surrounding the Heritage Foundation’s immigration study and the Jason Richwine controversy. Here it is.The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,Video Archive
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Richwine’s Immigration IQ Dissertation Filled with...
They say if you start asking questions and do a little more digging, eventually you can begin to connect the dots. Such was the case when we shared the news that the family foundations of the Vice Chairman of the Heritage Foundation were donating serious money to the anti-immigration organizations of the John Tanton Network. There was a time, around seven years ago, when Heritage was actually a...
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RAW VIDEO: Kern County Sheriff Tuesday Press...
In case you missed it, the following raw videos show the Tuesday press conference given by Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood in discussing the alleged beating death of David Silva in Bakersfield. For the latest about the case, you can read today’s report. Here are the videos. We have also posted the press conference video that Silva’s family lawyer gave on Monday.
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Lawyer to Witnesses in Silva Beating Case: Cell...
According to a story in today’s Bakersfield Californian , the attorney to the witnesses who filmed the alleged beating death of 33-year-old father David Silva at the hands of Kern County and California Highway Patrol officers, said that one of the videos his witnesses took and police had initially seized will likely be released “as early as Friday.” Here is what the article reported: “I have both...
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The Making of REBEL: The Story of Loreta...
We here at Latino Rebels are thrilled to learn about “REBEL,” a fascinating documentary premiering May 24 at 10pm EST on PBS (check local listings). The film tells the story of Loreta Velázquez, the untold story of “a Cuban raised in New Orleans, who disguised herself as a man to fight in the American Civil War. She fought at Bull Run, was wounded at Shiloh, and served as a spy for the Confederacy...
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The Latest on the David Silva Case: Returned...
As the alleged beating death of David Silva at the hands of Kern County and California Highway Patrol officers continues to get national attention (the HuffPost published its first story yesterday), local Bakersfield coverage continues to provide the most current updates. Here is one of the case’s latest reports: Now that the cell phones are back with the people who took them, there is obvious...
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What Kern County Sheriff and Witnesses to Silva...
The David Sal Silva case in Bakersfield is just beginning to get major media attention, including an article in The New York Times. The Los Angeles Times has quickly become one of the outlets providing constant updates of the case, which led to the Silva’s in-custody death after Kern County and California Highway Patrol officers allegedly beat Silva. Today the LA Times has provided some additional...
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ProEnglish Radio Ad Invents “Fake Illegal” to...
It really doesn’t surprise us that ProEnglish, which was formed in 1994 by John Tanton, the very same John Tanton who heads up a network of some of the most racist and anti-immigrant organizations in this country (with help from the Vice Chairman of the Heritage Foundation), has now entered the push to stop comprehensive immigration reform. As they following radio ad being run in South Carolina...
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David Silva Beating Death Story Makes New York...
It looks like the tragic case of the David Sal Silva, whose last moments of life involved an alleged brutal encounter with law enforcement officials in Bakersfield last week, has begun to get national media attention. Yesterday the AP and CNN ran pieces, and today The New York Times published its first story about the incident. Here is the beginning of the New York Times story: When Maria Melendez...
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The Librotraficante Oppression Detection Kit
California. Proposition 187. Pete Wilson. Arizona. HB2811. Jan Brewer. Texas. HB1938. Giovanni Capriglione. Texas. SB1128. Dan Patrick. The Librotraficante Movement is thrilled to announce that America can erase the last two entries from the above list of oppressive laws attacking our culture. Texas Republican Senator Dan Patrick introduced SB1128, and Texas Republican House of Representative...
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Video of Police Taser Incident in Cotati,...
The following video has begun to make the Internet rounds and has already gone viral on LiveLeak.com in the last 24 hours. Very little specific information about this incident can be found, just a few posts about what is happening in the video: The unidentified Cotati, Calif., man and woman tell the police from inside their home that “there is no domestic violence, just an argument with yelling.”...
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FBI to Investigate David Sal Silva Beating Death
Yesterday afternoon at 3:30 PST, the office of Kern Country Sheriff Donny Youngblood released the following press statement about the death of David Sal Silva, a case that has begun to get local and national media attention. Silva died in-custody, and the release of video and a chilling 911 call raises several questions about the law enforcement officers who were at the scene last week in...
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Last Night on The Daily Show: Jon Stewart Takes on...
In case you missed it last night, Jon Stewart speaks the truth. Again. Here is the clip.The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook
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Officers Involved in Silva Beating Yet to Be...
The story of the alleged beating death of David Sal Silve by Kern County deputies last week in Bakersfield has begun to gain more national attention. The Associated Press has published an article and CNN has filed a report.Screen Grab from local media report shows David Sal Silva Here is what CNN reported today. Additional details from the story have begun to emerge, including a local report from...
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A Video Summary of the Alleged Police Beating of...
The following is an edited YouTube video showing local Bakersfield news coverage about the alleged police beating of David Sal Silva. For more details about this story, you can click on this post. Here is the video.
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The Chilling 911 Call in the Alleged Police...
Yesterday, we shared a very troubling story out of Bakersfield, where David Sal Silva was allegedly beaten by Kern County deputies. Silva died in-custody. Here is a 911 call about the incident. One report said the following, “And though several witnesses caught the brutal murder on camera, police immediately seized cell phones from every one they could find in the area. The only one that has made...
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Latino Rebels Radio Podcast: Our Interview with...
Here is just another one of our early podcast segments that we recorded a few weeks ago. In this segment, we interview Manuel Roig-Franzia of The Washington Post. Recently Manuel co-wrote with Peter Wallsten called, “Hispanic consciousness lends weight to Jeb Bush as GOP eyes 2016 presidential race.” We talk to Manuel about this story. For other segments, you can check out the #NoMames podcast...
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VIDEO: One of the Most Insane Endings to a Soccer...
This was perhaps one of the best endings we have ever seen in a soccer game. Ever. Watford vs. Leicester City. Winner advances to Wembley for the Championship playoff final and gets a chance to make it to the Barclays Premier League next season. The Daily Mail did a nice little graphic of how it all played out.Credit: Daily Mail And here is the thrilling video. Watford wins. Wow.
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Heritage Foundation on Scaife/Tanton Connection:...
Late last night our Publisher @julito77 emailed a request for comment from The Heritage Foundation about two Latino Rebels stories about how the family foundations of Richard M. Scaife, the Vice Chairman of the Heritage’s Foundation Board of Trustees, had been donating millions of dollars for years to anti-immigration organizations linked to John Tanton. This afternoon, Heritage’s Daniel...
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Richwine: “I Don’t Apologize for Any of the Things...
Jason Richwine, who resigned last Friday from The Heritage Foundation over his “IQ and Immigration Policy” dissertation from 2009, went on record today with The Washington Examiner to defend his work and speak about the reaction it received (for example, Google “Jason Richwine racist” and see the millions of entries you will get). Here are just are just some of the excerpts he told the Examiner’s...
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Could the Scaife Foundations of Heritage’s Vice...
Earlier today we posted an article detailing how the family foundations run by Richard M. Scaife, the current Vice Chairman of the Heritage Foundation’s Board of Trustees, had given funds to several organizations associated with John Tanton, an individual whom many believe has created “most influential anti-immigrant network in the country.” These donations coincided during a time when Heritage’s...
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Family Foundations of Heritage’s Vice Chairman...
There was a time when the Heritage Foundation was looking at immigration through a more rational lens than its recent immigration report and the hornet’s nest it created for Jason Richwine, the study’s co-author, who last Friday resigned from Heritage after fallout from his 2009 Harvard dissertation about immigrants and IQ went viral.
In 2006, for example, a Heritage piece called “The Real...
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Ríos Montt: Guilty of Genocide and Crimes Against...
Here is the on-the-scene report submitted yesterday May 10 by NISGUA, the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala. For all other posts of the Efraín Ríos Montt genocide trial, visit NISGUA here. NISGUA gave Latino Rebels permission to republish their posts from the trial. Today in Guatemala, Judge Yazmin Barrios found former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt guilty of genocide and crimes...
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David Ortiz Believes Boston Globe Sports Columnist...
This week the Boston Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy wrote a piece questioning the fast start of Boston slugger David Ortiz. Apparently Shaughnessy thinks that Big Papi is using steroids. At one point Shaughnessy, who intersperses his column with replies from Ortiz, writes the following: But you fit all the models. You are from the Dominican Republic. You are an older player. Older players don’t get...
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One of the Most Troubling (and Humorous) Videos We...
One of the worst things to come out of the Jason Richwine story had to do with the National Institute Policy, a slick “white nationalist” think tank, that now made national TV. The National Policy Institute from The National Policy Institute on Vimeo. This cannot be serious. But it is. Maddow took them to task and NIP’s founder welcomed it. We do find it quite telling that the NIP doesn’t even...
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Slate: Jason Richwine Resigns and Is “No Longer...
UDATE: Just as we were about to post the following story about how Jason Richwine’s Harvard advisers were critical of his 2009 disseration, Slate’s Davis Wiegel reported that Richwine is no longer with the Heritage Foundation: The Heritage Foundation tells without much more detail. The full explanation: Jason Richwine let us know he’s decided to resign from his position. He’s no longer employed by...
NBC Latino: Celebrating Mother's Day: The Best... →
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Mothers give us endless love and care, but they also have something we couldn’t live without: wisdom. In honor of celebrating mom for Mother’s Day this Sunday, the NBCLatino staff is sharing some of the best advice our moms’ passed down to us. What was the best advice your mami ever gave you?
Chris Pena,
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In Letter to Eva Longoria, Cosmo for Latinas...
Michelle Herrera Mulligan is the editor-in-chief of Cosmo for Latinas and in a letter that was published yesterday in the HuffPost where she expresses her own personal opinions (and not Cosmo’s or the Hearst Corporation’s) about “Devious Maids,” the new Marc Cherry/Eva Longoria show that will premiere in June on Lifetime, Herrera Mulligan was highly critical of the show, at one point calling it...
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Latino Rebels Podcast: The Fernando Espuelas...
As Latino Rebels begins its radio adventure, we wanted to share with you another segment. In this 10-minute clip, co-hosts Charlie García and Julito Varela interview Univision América’s Fernando Espuelas, whose “Show de Fernando Espuelas”, now based out of Washington D.C., has become one of the country’s most popular political shows in Spanish-language media. In fact, it was Espuelas who yesterday...
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We Read Jason Richwine’s Dissertation and It’s...
Tonight we read Jason Richwine’s now infamous “IQ and Immigration Policy” Harvard dissertation, the same study that caused headaches for his employer, the Heritage Foundation, and what Michelle Malkin said “is now being used to smear him — and, by extension, all of Heritage’s scholarship — as ‘racist.’ While the punditocracy and political establishment sanctimoniously call for ‘honest...
Why This 'Dumb Hispanics' Study Is Dumb
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This is Jason Richwine, who argued in his Harvard dissertation that Latino immigrants have lower IQs than whites.
By CRISTINA COSTANTINI
Hispanic immigrants are dumb and their children will probably be dumb too. That’s the essence of the misguided 166-page Harvard dissertation published by Jason Richwine, who now works as a senior policy analyst for the conservative think...
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Heritage Defends Richwine on Fernando Espuelas...
The Jason Richwine Saga continues, and the latest comes from a Buzzfeed article about how the Heritage Foundation’s Mike Gonzalez stood up for (yet also distanced himself from) Richwine on Univision America’s Fernando Espuelas Show. Yesterday Richwine was identified by the Washington Post as a co-author of Heritage’s latest controversial immigration study but is also facing the heat for a 2009...
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The Murder Trial of the Irish Nanny the Boston...
We have been very cynical about the Boston media’s depiction of Aisling Brady McCarthy, given the fact that Brady McCarthy was residing in this country illegally when she was charged with the murder of a little baby, but when compared with other high-profile Boston cases (including the latest one involving the Boston Marathon bombing), Brady McCarthy’s immigration status rarely gets mentioned, and...
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Latino Rebels Radio Begins: Our First Podcast
The future of Latino Rebels is becoming a reality. Here is one of our first podcast segments. Your co-hosts are Charlie García and Julito Varela.
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Yes, It’s Official: Jason Richwine Is a Racist...
We have no words. Heritage Foundation “scholar” Jason Richwine, who is facing the heat for his views on immigrants this week (yeah, you know Latinos has low IQS and are dumber than Anglos), has so much more “insight” to share. Our dear friend Sara Inés Calderón found the following Jason Richwine video for her post on Politic365. Read the rest of Sara’s post here.
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The Other Cleveland Kidnapping Hero: Ángel Cordero
With all the Internet celebrations about Charles Ramsey and his actions to help rescue the young women and girl in the Cleveland kidnapping case, media outlets are now focusing attention on Ángel Cordero, who also played a key role in freeing the victims. The story also made CNN. We are wondering when the autotunes and memes start to show up about Cordero, who indeed was also an angel. ¡Gracias,...
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Heroes and Colorism in America: Charles Ramsey...
By now I’m sure you’ve seen the video interview of Charles Ramsey, a man being declared hero for rescuing three kidnapped Cleveland women missing for over a decade who were presumed dead. It’s not surprising such incredible news would go viral. It’s also not surprising one of the first few things to happen was the auto tuning of the interview to make it laughable therefore digestible, maybe even...
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Listen to Our Founder’s Really Strong Boricua...
Yesterday our founder @julito77 appeared on Telemundo Austin to discuss the whole Disney “Día de los Muertos” trademark fiasco. The interview was done via Skype from Latino Rebels HQ in the Boston area. Yeah, Julito has a wicked strong Puerto Rican accent. Watch.
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Yes, Cleveland, Puerto Ricans Are U.S. Citizens,...
UPDATE, 10:10 pm EST, Pagonakis said the following on a NewsChannel5 Facebook post:
He also tweeted this to us a few minutes ago:
@latinorebels My deepest apologies I know better. We ran a correction on the air. didn’t report correct information from police. I’m sorry.
— Joe Pagonakis (@joeonyourside) May 9, 2013
What has happened in Cleveland this week has been both...
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Hispanic Evangelical Leader: Gay Rights for...
The Rev. Sam Rodríguez, who has led the charge for immigration reform among Latino evangelicals, went on air this week to clarify that recent gay rights amendments being considered for the bipartisan current immigration reform bill in the Senate could seriously jeopardize the current alliance in favor of the reform bill, if gay rights were to be included. Here is a clip of what Rodríguez said: At...
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The Guy Who Co-Authored Heritage Foundation’s...
This one is so so bad, we are actually going to start the WITH No Mames Gollum instead of leaving him for the end of the post.
So here goes: Jason Richwine, the Heritage Foundation’s Senior Policy Analyst of Empirical Studies and the co-author of the foundation’s much-maligned 2013 immigration study being slammed by prominent conservative groups, wrote a 2009 Harvard dissertation where he...
