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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Actor James Franco is set to play Fidel Castro in a movie. Excuse me? Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Cristina Escobar, co-creator of LatinaMedia.Co and LR’s resident entertainment writer, to discuss Hollywood’s latest example of why this one casting move misses the mark. Again.
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On a special episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes both his producer Oscar Fernández and Washington D.C. activist Vikram Surya Chiruvolu to discuss the death of longtime Adams Morgan resident Miguel Gonzáles and how it serves as a cautionary tale of predatory lending, gentrification and houselessness.
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On this episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela talks shop with Lucy Flores, the CEO of Luz Media and former member of the Nevada State Assembly, on the importance of creating digital media spaces and leadership for Latinas.
Luz Media celebrates “Latina strength, creativity, and success through storytelling” and is in the middle of a new crowdfunding campaign to further its mission.
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Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes back David Luis "Suave" Gonzalez from the Pulitzer Prize-winning Suave podcast to discuss his recent work and how the pitfalls of the criminal justice system still need to be challenged.
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While Latino Rebels Radio takes a couple of weeks off for the summer, producer Oscar Fernández steps in the guest host chair with a new episode of his Latino Media Collective show.
On the 10th anniversary of the parliamentary coup against Fernando Lugo, the LMC spends the hour with freelance writer Norma Flores Allende on the historic challenges the Paraguayan left faces in a tightly controlled, one-party state.
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While Latino Rebels Radio takes a couple of weeks off for the summer, producer Oscar Fernández steps in the guest host chair with a new episode of his Latino Media Collective show.
Torturer. Fascist. Murderer. Godfather of the death squads.The LMC speaks with professor Jorge Cuellar about the dark shadow that Roberto D’Aubuisson cast over El Salvador. Cuellar is an assistant professor of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean studies at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
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From Futuro Media’s Detroit Community Podcast Lab, Latino Rebels Radio is proud to present an episode of Have You Heard, a happy hour podcast hosted by Arlyssa Heard. In this episode, Arlyssa discusses how reactionary forces both in and out of government are attacking Michigan’s public school system.
Special thanks to WDET and Futuro Media’s Joaquin Cotler.
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For the first time in its history, Colombia has moved to the left with the election of Gustavo Petro as president and Francia Márquez, the country's first Afro-Colombian vice president.
Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes freelance writer Christina Noriega from Bogotá to break down both the victory and the challenges ahead.
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Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Washington correspondent Pablo Manríquez to break down a busy month on Capitol Hill, which includes the January 6 hearings, Puerto Rico's new status bill and the green card backlog immigration debate.
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Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela proudly welcomes award-winning journalist and Democracy Now! co-host Juan González to discuss the second revision of his legendary book and how it relates to recent events. They talk about the current Summit of the Americas, the news of a migrant caravan this week and the latest about Puerto Rico.
The second revision of Harvest of Empire releases on June 14. You can read more about the updated version at the Penguin Random House site.
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