Stay ConnectedCommentary, news and analysis of the U.S. Latino world. Engaging traviesos. A 2019 iHeart Radio Podcast Awards nominee for Best Multicultural Podcast hosted by award-wining journalist Julio Ricardo Varela.
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On Friday, seven DACA recipients and one ally got arrested after two sit-ins at the offices of Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Carlos Curbelo. As of Sunday night, the individuals are in a DC jail, refusing to disclose their names to law enforcement. They are also on a hunger strike. Why are they doing it? We talk with Juan Pablo Orjuela, a spokesperson for the Seed Project—the group supporting these activists.
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Our friends at the Latino Media Collective guest host Latino Rebels Radio this week with a very special show about the most important story that nobody is paying attention to: the controversy about the latest presidential elections in Honduras. Amid reports of corruption, voter suppression and violence, the LMC speaks with Suyapa Portillo about what happens next in Honduras. Portillo is an assistant professor of Chicano & Latino studies at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. She was also an election observer during the election in Honduras.
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Last Thursday December 7, Puerto Rico's Centro de Periodismo Investigativo (CPI) celebrated its 10-year anniversary. This nonprofit independent media organization has transformed journalism in Puerto Rico. As one of its many media partners, Latino Rebels spoke with Carla Minet, the CPI's Executive Director, about the group's history and what the future of journalism will be like for them and for the island.
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On November 16, 1989, US-trained, Salvadoran-backed military forces killed six Jesuits priests, their housekeeper and her daughter in El Salvador. This week, the Latino Media Collective guest hosts Latino Rebels Radio to discuss this atrocity. The LMC speaks with author Robert Lassalle-Klein about the significance of this event as it relates to liberation theology and the history of El Salvador.
Photo from the Fundación Hermano Mercedes Ruíz
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It has been a breakthrough year for Making Movies, the Kansas City-based band, and Latino Rebels talks with singer/guitarist Enrique Chi about the group's success—from hitting #3 on the Latin Billboard charts to releasing a series of new protest songs and earning some love from THE Rubén Blades. For more about this band we love, go to http://makingmoviesband.com.
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Our friends at the Latino Media Collective guest host this week. Documentary photographer Delphine Blast speaks with the LMC about the rise and acceptance of Bolivian Cholita fashion. After generations of being marginalized and denied access to public services, the indigenous women of Bolivia are using the Cholita aesthetic as a symbol of femininity, elegance and dignity. When fashion and social justice collide. Learn more at http://delphineblast.com
Featured images by Delphine Blast
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It's now two months since Hurricane María, and what's life like in Puerto Rico? We speak with Marlena Fitzpatrick and Hector Luis Alamo, who are currently on the island, reporting for Enclave Magazine. Later in the show, host Julio Ricardo Varela shares his thoughts about Sunday's Unity March for Puerto Rico in DC. Where will the diaspora go next?
Show image by Flavio Cumpiano
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Activist Belén Sisa talks about the future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Belén was in Washington, D.C., on Thursday to participate in a massive DREAM ACT demonstration and was one of more than one dozen people arrested during the protest at the Hart Senate Office Building. Thousands of high school and college students had traveled from as far away as Washington state and Arizona in an effort to keep politicians focused on the struggle for immigrant rights.
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This week our host @julito77 spoke with Rosa Clemente about her latest project: #PRontheMap, an independent grassroots media initiative solely dedicated to authentic storytelling out of Puerto Rico.
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Keeping its guest hosting duties going, the Latino Media Collective is back with an episode about Jamaica. The LMC speaks with Brian Meeks about the life and legacy of former Jamaican prime minister Michael Manley and how the struggle for social justice in the 60s and 70s still affects the Caribbean nation to this day. Meeks is the chair of Africana studies at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
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