Latino Rebels Radio
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Commentary, 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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Commentary, 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.
© Futuro Media
Amid a record breaking heat wave throughout Texas that has led to several heat-related deaths, Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a bill eliminating mandatory water breaks for construction workers. Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Daniela Hernandez, state legislative coordinator for the Workers Defense Project, to discuss the cruel and punitive nature of the bill and how they plan to fight back.
A story of influence, control, and those who dare to fight back.
Latino Rebels Radio goes on the road for a live podcast recording at Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut. Host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes seven students to discuss how a college such as Mitchell is creating more welcoming, accessible living and learning environments in a world that continues to get more and more diverse.
From Peru to Mexico to the Lower East Side, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela breaks down the Latino and Latina pioneers who influenced punk rock with guests Ceci Bastida and Núria Net.
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.
We welcome The Daily Chela founder Brandon Loran Maxwell to discuss his new film, American Homeboy, for a nuanced discussion of Cholo culture and how it still influences pop culture today.
Latino Rebels Radio producer Oscar Fernandez steps in to guest host as he welcomes true-crime novelist H. Allegra Lansing to discuss the forgotten legacy of ‘90s grunge rock singer Mia Zapata
Following a historic election victory by the progressive Semilla party in Guatemala, Latino Rebels Radio producer Oscar Fernandez steps in as guest host to welcome Marco Fonseca, Instructor of Latin American and International Studies at York University in Canada, to discuss how this election almost didn't happen.
This year's FIFA Women's World Cup has featured new stars, new upset victories, and the rise of future title contenders. To discuss the surprise success of non-European teams at the tournament, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes back Brenda Elsey, professor of history and Latin American and Caribbean studies at Hostra University, and the author of 'Futbolera: A History of Women and Sports in Latin America.'
In this special episode of Latino Rebels Radio ---originally aired on the Futuro podcast In The Thick--- host Julio Ricardo Varela is joined by Futuro Media editorial director Fernanda Santos for a roundtable discussion with Dr. Aria Halliday, an associate professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Kentucky, for a breakdown of the legacy of Black Barbie.
With the release of the blockbuster film 'Oppenheimer,' Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Myrriah Gomez, assistant professor at the University of New Mexico and author of 'Nuclear Nuevo México: Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos,' to discuss the movie's omission of New Mexican history in the creation of the atomic bomb.
Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela proudly welcomes acclaimed Puerto Rican writer Esmeralda Santiago for a lively discussion about her latest book, Las Madres, and the importance of becoming visible in the American landscape through literature.
On this episode, Hector Luis Alamo, senior editor of Latino Rebels, steps in as guest host to speak with Ada Briceño, co-president of Unite Here! Local 11, and Diana Rios Sanchez, a striking hotel worker, about the hotel workers' strike in Los Angeles and its importance with other labor actions taking place across the country.
Affirmative action struck down in college admissions. LGBTQ rights limited. Student loan relief blocked. Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Vanity Fair legal affairs contributor Cristian Farias to discuss the latest round of Supreme Court rulings plagued by shaky evidence, questionable plaintiffs and the lack of legal standing.
Latino Rebels senior editor Hector Luis Alamo steps in as guest host to welcome sports journalist Bryan Fonseca for a knockout conversation on the future of Puerto Rican boxing, history made at the NBA draft, and Boricua representation in pro wrestling.
This week, Latino Rebels Radio is proud to present the first episode of SOS Central America, hosted by Maria Martin, creator and founding team member of Latino USA.
Following another series of migrant flights by Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron Desantis, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Autumn Gonzalez and Ivan Espinoza-Madrigal to discuss the latest political stunt in Sacramento, California, and the unspoken trauma and shame felt by migrants who were taken advantage. Autumn Gonzalez is a volunteer organizer for NorCal Resist, based in Sacramento. Ivan Espinoza-Madrigal is the Executive Director of Lawyers for Civil Rights, based in Boston.
Latino Rebels entertainment correspondent Cristina Escobar steps into the host seat again to talk with Linda Yvette Chavez, writer of the upcoming film ‘Flamin’ Hot,’ about the importance of family and community to both the filmmaking process and the extraordinary story of Richard Montañez.
In this episode, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes professors Lilia Fernandez and Ana Patricia Rodriguez to discuss why so much U.S. Latino history is missing in textbooks and how it eventually extends to issues of imperialism. Lilia Fernandez is a Professor of History at the University of Illinois in Chicago and Ana Patricia Rodriguez is a Professor of US Latinx & Central American Literature at the University of Maryland in College Park.
With Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis launching his 2024 presidential campaign this week after passing a slew of anti-immigrant measures, Latino Rebels host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes freelance writer and LR contributor Arturo Domínguez to discuss how some Latino truckers are pushing back with a proposed boycott of the Sunshine State.
As the Writer's Guild of America goes on strike and puts the entertainment industry to a halt, Latino Rebels Radio host welcomes writer and producer Erick Galindo to discuss the importance of fighting for better working wages and fair representation in Hollywood.
Amid a wave of anti-immigrant rhetoric and violence, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Roberto Lopez, Senior Advocacy Manager for the Texas Civil Rights Project, to discuss the circumstances around the tragedy in Brownsville, Texas, and how the country has become a nation of hating immigrants.
Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Pita Juarez, vice president of Communications for LGBTQ+ Victory Fund and Institute, to discuss trans voices being silenced by Republicans following the censure of Montana transgender lawmaker Zooey Zephyr and the importance of having more Trans voices in the democratic process.
In the wake of a wild story out of San Jose, California, where the head of the police union was charged with smuggling fentanyl into the country, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes investigative journalist Jonah Owen Lamb from the San Francisco Standard to discuss the importance of a nuanced understanding of the opioid crisis in the Bay Area.
Latino Rebels entertainment correspondent Cristina Escobar steps into the host seat for a conversation with actor and comedian John Leguizamo to discuss his passion and activism in Hollywood as well as his new show on MSNBC, "Leguizamo Does America."
On a special episode of Latino Rebels Radio, sports correspondent Bryan Fonseca turns the tables on host Julio Ricardo Varela as they discuss the impact of this year's World Baseball Classic, the controversry around Twitter Blue, and Julio's love and admiration for the New York Knicks in the lead up to the NBA playoffs.
Many service employees in Los Angeles' school district work two or three jobs to make ends meet, while still living below the poverty line. Some are even homeless. On this episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Roosevelt High School teacher Jason Torres-Rangel to explain the plight of service workers in L.A. schools that led them to strike last month, and why educators followed their lead.
Another mass shooting, this time in Nashville, has once again raised the issue of gun control and the inaction of lawmakers to do anything about it. In this episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Oscar Juarez-Luna, the communications manager for Movimiento Poder in Denver ---where earlier this year a high school experienced two shootings in two months--- to discuss preventative measures and the importance of protecting kids, not guns.
"Y'all means all!" goes the pro-LGBTQ slogan in Texas, but judging by the bills being introduced and passed in states across the country, many conservative lawmakers clearly disagree. On this episode, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela 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.
Head splitters. Bandsaws. Exposure to Covid. 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.
Haiti is going to the Women's World Cup! Following this historic achievement last month by Haiti's national women's soccer team, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Brenda Elsey, professor at Hofstra University and co-host of the Burn It All Down podcast, to discuss and celebrate this exciting moment in Haitian fútbol history.
On this episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Keylin Perez, the first Latina to be named Miss Coppin State at the historically Black university in Baltimore, Maryland, to discuss the backlash she has received online versus the supportive and inclusive environment at the school itself.
Is George Lopez out of touch by disparaging up-and-coming comedian Ralph Barbosa? Latino Rebels’ Senior Editor Hector Luis Alamo steps in as guest host this week to break down the George Lopez/Ralph Barbosa controversy with entertainment correspondent Cristina Escobar and L.A. Times columnist Fidel Martinez.
The private seizure of public lands. Regulations that go unenforced. Serious environmental damage.
While the fight for African American studies continues in Florida, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Sean Arce, the former co-founder of the Mexican-American Raza Studies Program in Tucson, Arizona to draw parallels to the current battle with Arizona's ethnic studies battle over a decade ago.
On this episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela speaks with President and General Counsel for LatinoJustice PRLDEF Lourdes Rosado about the latest shocking example of police violence in Memphis and why the death of Tyre Nichols should be met with an equal measure of outrage by Black and Latino communities.
It's award season, which means it's time for Latino Rebels to return to Hollywood to see if real gains have been made by Latinos and Latinas in film during the past year.
As Peru faces another political crisis following the impeachment of former president Pedro Castillo last month, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Peruvian professor Roger Merino to discuss how the right wing is playing a dangerous democratic game that has led to the deaths of several protesters. Roger Merino is an Associate Professor at the Universidad del Pacifico in Lima, Peru.
Following a week that included a failed coup attempt in Brazil by followers of former president Jair Bolsonaro and US president Joe Biden receiving heavy criticism for expanding Trump-era immigration policy; what parallels can be drawn from these events? Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela searches for answers by welcoming both Sabrina Fernandes and Juliana Macedo do Nascimento to discuss both issues. Sabrina Fernandes is a São Paulo-based sociologist. Juliana Macedo do Nascimento is the Deputy Director of Federal Advocacy for United We Dream.
With the return of Lula as Brazil's president and the hope of Brazilian democracy being renewed, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela begins the new year by speaking with Brazil-based freelance journalist Michael Fox on what lies ahead for Lula's second run in office following the right-wing presidency of Jair Bolsonaro. Michael Fox is also the host of the podcast Brazil On Fire.
While Futuro Media remains on holiday break, Latino Rebels Radio producer Oscar Fernandez steps in once again for another episode of the Latino Media Collective.
It’s time for the annual holiday break at Futuro Media, which means it’s also time for our producer Oscar Fernández to step in with another episode of the Latino Media Collective.
Why is military-grade spyware being used against journalists?
Following the huge success of Wednesday on Netflix, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes entertainment correspondent Cristina Escobar to look back on an outstanding year for Latino representation in Hollywood.
On this episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Futuro Media senior producers Julieta Martinelli and Roxanne Scott to discuss the debut Futuro Investigates story about the dangers migrants face in the Arizona desert.
Latino Rebels Senior Editor Hector Luis Alamo returns as guest host and welcomes Rhonda LeValdo to break away from romanticized narratives of Thanksgiving and deconstruct the facade of turkey day. Rhonda LeValdo is a citizen of Acoma Pueblo and a professor at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas.
Following a midterm election cycle that defied predictions of a red wave, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Chuck Rocha —president of Solidarity Strategies and co-host of The Latino Vote podcast— to break down the complexity of Latino voters from region to region.
Just days before the start of the 2022 World Cup, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Jasmine Garsd, host of the new podcast The Last Cup, to discuss how the journey of Argentinian superstar Lionel Messi runs parallel to the issues of migration, neoliberalism, and hanging on to your roots. The Last Cup is a joint production between Futuro Media and NPR.
Amid a sense of apprehension over the future of Brazilian democracy, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Roberta Braga, director of counter-disinformation strategies at Equis, to break down the contentious and highly competitive second round of Brazil's presidential election and weigh it against the destabilizing threat of disinformation.
In the lead-up to next month's midterm elections, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Gustavo Sanchez, the principal of IZQ Strategies, to talk about Futuro Media's first poll of Latino voters and what it could mean for key races in three battleground states.
Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Danielle Elliott, a civil rights attorney based in Sacramento, California, and Celina Avalos Jaramillo, a graduate student at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC-Berkeley. Danielle and Celina will tell us about their investigation on Spanish-language disinformation and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, part of a project by the Berkeley School of Journalism.
Latino Rebel's Senior Editor Hector Luis Alamo, our guest host this week, welcomes Los Angeles Times columnist Gustavo Arellano to discuss the leaked audio of racist comments made by three L.A. City Council members and its aftermath.
On this episode of Latino Rebels Radio, Senior Editor Hector Luis Alamo steps in as guest host to welcome Michael Fox, host of the Brazil On Fire podcast, to discuss the elections in Brazil this month and the dark history of the Brazilian right-wing. Brazil On Fire is a podcast produced by Michael Fox in collaboration with NACLA and the Real News Network.
Lies. False promises. Migrants left high and dry. Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela speaks with breaking news reporter Raquel Torres from the San Antonio Report about her firsthand conversations with local migrants on how the political stunt by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis this month originated in Texas.
Five years almost to the day after the devastation of Hurricane María, Puerto Rico was hit by another devastating hurricane—Fiona.
Five years ago on September 20, 2017, Hurricane María devastated the island of Puerto Rico, exposing a colonial reality with deep repercussions.
While Latino Rebels Radio takes a break, producer Oscar Fernandez steps up once again with a new episode from the Latino Media Collective. On this episode, Salvadoran professor Jorge Cuellar returns for part two of a special conversation about the legacy of former assemblyman Roberto D'Aubuisson, the godfather of El Salvador's death squads. Jorge Cuellar is an assistant professor of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean studies at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
This week, Latino Rebels Radio is proud to present three podcasts from Futuro Media’s Detroit Community Podcast Lab. Partnering with WDET, Futuro brought its Community Podcast Lab to Detroit, helping to capture the untold stories from the neighborhoods of the city.
Futuro Media founder Maria Hinojosa returns to Latino Rebels Radio to talk to host Julio Ricardo Varela about the upcoming release of the young reader version of her book, “Once I Was You: Finding My Voice and Passing The Mic.”
Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes back Capitol Hill correspondent Pablo Manríquez to discuss the latest on the Inflation Reduction Act, the lack of progress in immigration reform, the stalling of the Puerto Rico Status Act and Democrats voting in favor of Title 42.
Actor James Franco is playing Fidel Castro in a movie. Excuse me?
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 homelessness.
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.
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.
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.
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.
From Futuro Media’s Detroit Community Podcast, Latino Rebels Radio is proud to present an episode of Have You Heard, a happy hour podcast hosted by Arlyssa Heard.
For the first time in its history, Colombia has moved to the left with the historic election of Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez, the country's first Afro-Colombian vice president.
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.
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.
The May 24 elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, will continue to resonate for a very long time.
Does the newly proposed Puerto Rico consensus status bill pose the most serious challenge yet to the island's colonial status?
Following the tragic domestic terrorist attacked in Buffalo that killed 10 Black lives, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela speaks with attorney Sophia Hall from Lawyers for Civil Rights about the denial, complacency and normalization of white supremacy in the country.
Host Julio Ricardo Varela speaks with journalist Juanita Ramos Ardila to discuss why some countries in Latin America are going in the other direction and how feminist groups in Colombia and Mexico are leading the charge.
In a series of new audio stories, Futuro Media senior producer Julieta Martinelli will explore Tennessee’s juvenile lifer law, how it has been applied, how it could possibly change due to a pending Tennessee Supreme Court ruling, and how tough-on-crime legislation threatens to dismantle any progress.
It's that time again for Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela to welcome back Gregorio Pedroza for another absurd, cringeworthy installment of Cinco de Fallo.
Twenty years after the U.S.-supported coup in Venezuela shook the foundation of Latin American politics, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela examines the legacy of Chavismo with Alejandro Velasco.
Can there be an alternative approach to Puerto Rico's statehood vs. status quo vs. independence divide?
This week, Latino Rebels Radio producer Oscar Fernández presents another Latino Media Collective show from Washington, D.C.
Following a recent rise in homicides that led to the Nayib Bukele administration's subsequent declaration of a state of emergency in El Salvador, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela speaks with Salvadoran professor Jorge Cuellar about current policies and how it’s connected to previous historical decisions.
From Peru to Mexico to the Lower East Side, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela breaks down the Latino and Latina pioneers who influenced punk rock with guests Ceci Bastida and Núria Net.
On another special episode of Latino Rebels Live from Los Angeles, hosts Julio Ricardo Varela and Melinna Bobadilla welcome Mala Muñoz from Locatora Radio to discuss her Marijuanera podcast along with weed, weed, and more weed.
Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela speaks with Ana María Archila who is seeking the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor of New York and letting the state know that the economic struggles for the immigrant community during the pandemic is far from over.
Breaking away from the recent doom and gloom headlines, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela speaks with journalist Tina Vasquez and visual artist Julio Salgado on their lasting friendship and how they have supported each other's work over the years.
This week, Latino Rebels Radio producer Oscar Fernández presents one of his latest Latino Media Collective shows from Washington, D.C.
What happens next in Honduras following the arrest of former president Juan Orlando Hernández?
Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela tackles the discrimination lawsuit from former coach Brian Flores against the NFL by speaking with Dave Zirin, the sports editor for The Nation.
Following the January Bronx fire that killed 17 people, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes long-time Garifuna activist José Francisco Ávila to discuss how this tragedy draws parallels to the 1990 Happy Land Fire, which also happened in the Bronx.
Chalino Sánchez canta sobre el escenario “Alma enamorada” y el público sinaloense canta con él.
Narcocorrido superstar Chalino Sánchez sings to a sold-out crowd for the first time in Sinaloa.
Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes writer and creator Erick Galindo to discuss the long road to developing his new podcast, “Ídolo: The Ballad of Chalino Sánchez,”
A conversation with Stacie de Armas, the Senior VP of Strategic Initiatives & Consumer Engagement for Nielsen.
The debut live Latino Rebels shows from Los Angeles.
The Rise of Chile's Center-Left
Gentrifying Puerto Rico
Undocumented and LGBTQ (Part 13): Disabilities
Black Lives Matter in Paraguay
Texas Suppression
West Side Story: Why Now?
Man in the Arena: The Icon
A New Honduras?
From the Akron Community Podcast Lab
The Humans Who Feed Us
Colombia and el aborto
Boom and Bust in Puerto Rico
Immigration Impasse?
Latino Thought Makers
The Immigrant Community of West Palm Beach
The Tanton Papers
Fernandomania
A Humanitarian Crisis Rooted in History
#LatinoRebelsDC
A Chilean Awakening
Joy for the Journey and Real Women Talk
Bukele's Gang Negotiations
La entrevista con Juan Francisco Sandoval
Back To School
The History of Reggaeton
Peru's Contentious Election
Reclaiming Puerto Rico
The End of DACA?
The Cuba Protests
Justice for Berta
Black Super Dads!
Pride
On Colorism and 'In the Heights'
Corporate Media vs. Bolivian Democracy
Undocumented and LGBTQ (Part 8, COVID Edition)
Who Killed Berta Cáceres?
The Manufactured Debate About LATINX
10 Years of Latino Rebels
One Month After the Death of Adam Toledo
When Latina Journalists Face Discrimination in Newsrooms
Hablando del status
It's All About the Status
Breaking Up a Family
Episodio 7 de LA BREGA: Se acabaron las promesas
EcoMadres
Episodio 6 de LA BREGA: Las cartas de la quiebra
Suni Delight
Episodio 5 de LA BREGA: Guerreros del basket
An Interview With Rep. Nydia Velázquez
Episodio 4 de LA BREGA: Vieques y la resiliencia que nunca llegó
Caribbean Soulmates
Episodio 3 de LA BREGA: Una enciclopedia de traición
Rising to the Moment
Episodio 2 de LA BREGA: Levittown, donde la buena vida comienza
Episodio 1 de LA BREGA: ¿Qué es la brega?
The Indie Locatoras
Immigration Moves
Suave's Story
Selena y yo
The Latinx Files
Stay Tuned for SUAVE, a New Podcast From Futuro Studios and PRX
A Mexican Belonging
How Latino Voters Made Electoral History in 2020
Country Before Party
Argentina Makes History
Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela wanted to drop one more 2020 show for the feed, and here it is—with guests Jesús Beltrán and Sammy Martínez of the Desmadre podcast.
The Political Legacy of Diego Maradona
Undocumented and LGBTQ (Part 7)
Anything for La Reina
Central America's Two Tragic Hurricanes
Ok, One More 'Latino Vote' Show
Trump's 32 Percent
Let the 2020 post-election analysis about Latino voters begin. In this new episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Carlos Odio of Equis Labs to discuss one of the country's most misunderstood and voting blocs.
The Peruvian Crisis (La crisis peruana)
Earlier this year, Latino Rebels Radio was out in Nevada to cover a pre-pandemic caucus. Now months later, we return to the state Joe Biden won (finally). Latino Rebels contributor Hector Luis Alamo joins us to discuss all things Nevada.
Arizona Blue
Election Analysis With In The Thick
LIVE: Millennials and Gen Z on the American Dream
Finding Latinx (and the 2020 Election) With Paola Ramos
Moms With Political Power
Mucho Mucho Amor With Kareem Tabsch
Carlos Vives: La entrevista con Latino Rebels
BONUS: Anything For Selena
A Conversation With Maggie Freleng of the 'Unjust & Unsolved' Podcast
The Latino Vote in 2020
Once I Was You: A Conversation With Maria Hinojosa
Black Lives Matter In Belize
The Oregon Fires
Black Lives Matter in Honduras
The 1918 Spanish Flu: Fact vs. Fiction
A Conversation With Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey
The Losers and Winners of Puerto Rico's Chaotic 2020 Primaries
Losing Your Father to COVID-19
Truths Untold in the Quest for Black and Brown Unity
Black Lives Matter in Costa Rica
Talking Politics From the Island Colony of Puerto Rico
A Confrontation With Ron DeSantis in the Time of COVID-19
Seizing the Moment With Rosa Clemente
A Queer Jamaican Refugee's Journey
A Genocide of Black Brazilians
Her Name Was Sandy Guardiola
Homeland Insecurity: A Conversation With Erika Andiola
Chelsea Strong
Minnesota Grieves
Summoning the Courage to Change the Power Structure
Latin America and Reproductive Rights in the Time of COVID-19
Fighting COVID-19 From the Frontlines of NYC's Immigrant Neighborhoods
Venezuela's Ongoing Political Saga
There's a Disturbing Spike in Violence Against Puerto Rico's LGBTQ Community
The Fight Against the 'Sheriff Joe' of Massachusetts
Of Earthquakes and Pandemics
A Virtual Livestream Concert to Benefit Farmworkers During the COVID-19 Crisis
Sparking Creativity With Gloria Calderón Kellett and ONE DAY AT A TIME
Internet Voting Won't Help a Democracy, Even During a Pandemic
On Thursday morning, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela interviewed Erick Delgado, president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting of Puerto Rico. This week, Delgado and his network have been criticized for not allowing the island's press corps to attend the government's COVID-19 task force sessions.
Suppressing a Free Press in the Time of Corona
Farmworkers and COVID-19
One of the Boston Area's Latino Immigrant Cities Is the Epicenter of the COVID-19 Crisis in Massachusetts
Discrimination and COVID-19
Here's to the Vanguardia
Immigrant Detention During COVID-19
Artificial Intelligence and Immigrant Communities
Free Them All
This Is Nothing We've Ever Seen Before
Raising Arizona's Profile in the 2020 Conversation
COVID-19 and Day Laborers
Show Us Your Puerto Rico Policy
Checking Out the Michigan Primary From Detroit's Southwest Neighborhood
The Dominican Republic Is Protesting Allegations of Election Fraud
The Latino and Latina Political Leaders of... New Hampshire
BONUS: Hector's First Caucus
All Eyes on Nevada
Tom Steyer's Nevada Chances
Where Is Latino Political Power Today?
ICE Shoots Unarmed Man in the Face
#DignidadLiteraria Was Never About Just One Book
The New Voters of Texas
Myriam Gurba on AMERICAN DIRT and a Revolution to Change Publishing
A Film About the Life of Walter Mercado Is About to Become the Next Great Thing
Puerto Rico's Earthquakes
What FEMA and Other Government Agencies Are Saying About the Puerto Rico Earthquakes
Undocumented and LGBTQ (Part 6)
279: The Story of How Puerto Ricans Got Denied Driver's Licenses in Georgia
278: Undocumented and LGBTQ (Part 5)
277: The Legacy of Selena Quintanilla Is the Focus of a New College Course
276: The Latin Americans of Australia
275: The Immigrant Rights Organizer Who Confronted Biden About Obama Deportations
274: Regina Romero Makes Tucson History
273: Political Complexity in Latin America
272: Hanging Out With Latin Grammy Winner Linda Briceño
271: Puerto Rico's Civil Code Is Being Attacked
270: Mississippi's Latino Community
269: Why Are We Still Having a Manufactured Debate About LATINX?
268: The Cristela Alonzo Interview
267: Chile at the Crossroads
266: What Can We Learn From the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943?
265: SCOTUS and Puerto Rico's Colonial Status
264: Authentically Portraying the Community Through Getty Images' NOSOTROS COLLECTION
Last year around this time, Ana María Archila was one of the women who confronted Senator Jeff Flake in an elevator during the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. We connected with Archila this weekend to talk about the moment and its impact on progressive politics one year later.
262: The Urgency of Julián Castro
261: Two Years After Hurricane María, 'We Still Here'
260: #ElPasoFirme and the State of Immigration Politics in 2019
259: Welcome to Fantasy Island
258: Why Did an ICE Agent Open Fire in an Immigrant Neighborhood?
257: A Comic Book From the Borderlands Fights Power and Corruption
Agatha Bacelar is a 27-year-old Brazilian-American who lives in San Francisco. She is also running for U.S. Congress in California District 12—Nancy Pelosi's district. We welcome Bacelar to talk about her background and why she is deciding to run now against the country's most powerful Democrat.
255: Perspectives on Identity, Belonging and Culture
254: Time For Some 'Spanish Aquí Presents'
253: Privatizing Puerto Rico's Schools
252: Exposing Hate in the El Paso Domestic Terrorism Attack
251: From Mixtapes to Streaming: The Power of Curation
250: Puerto Rico's CPI Changes History
249: What's Next?: Media, Marketing and Afrolatinx
248: Finding Value and Change in the 'Puerto Rican Spring'
247: From the 'Otro Lado' of the Border
246: Ricardo Rosselló's Worst Political Week Ever (So Far)
245: Right-Wing Racism in Venezuela
244: Canada's Role in the Venezuelan Crisis
The deportation of U.S. veterans. It's a reality that continues to this day. In this latest episode of Latino Rebels Radio, we talk to Army veteran Mario Martinez about why his deportation hearing this week. It's a complicated story that highlights the issues surrounding immigration enforcement.
242: Undocumented and LGBTQ (Part 4)
241: How Online Shopping Warehouses Are Polluting California's Inland Empire
240: Isabella Gomez, Edna Chavez and Maria Hinojosa
239: When a School Door Closes
238: Brazil's History of Anti-Blackness
The latest project from John Leguizamo is not a one-man show: it's a musical comedy called Kiss My Aztec!, and it premiered on May 28 at the Berkeley Rep. Wait, what? Let Leguizamo explain, as Latino Rebels Radio called him up to chat about it.
236: Focusing on Southeast Asian Immigration
Our friends at the Latino Media Collective are guest hosting this latest Latino Rebels Radio episode with the third part of the LMC's Undocumented and LGBTQ series. For this episode, the LMC talks with Trans activist Jennicet Gutierrez to discuss the c...
234: Distory: A Podcast About Life With Disabilities
Our friends at the Latinos Out Loud podcast are celebrating their 100th episode at The Greene Space this Monday night with guests Lin-Manuel Miranda, Luis Miranda Jr. and SNL director Oz Rodriguez. One of the show's hosts, the fabulous Rachel La Loca, ...
On this Cinco De Mayo for 2019, we welcome back Gregorio Pedroza to review what he found during the annual Cinco De Fallo quest to find all the desmadre and inherent racism brought found through social media during one of the United States' most exploi...
Julián Castro is the only Latino presidential candidate running during this election cycle, and on Monday, the Texas Democrat was in Boston and spoke with Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela about his campaign.
Featured image of Julián Cas...
We took the weekend off, but don't worry—we still have a show, thanks to our dear friends at the Latino Media Collective. In this recent LMC episode, host Oscar Fernández talks with Cecilia Baeza, a lecturer at the Paris Institute of Political Studies,...
A Thursday press call about the Latino Vote Project did a deep dive into Latino voter turnout of the last three election cycles: 2014, 2016 and 2018\. Listen to what the project discovered and the recommendations it made.
228: From Lovers to Homies
In a post-María, post-PROMESA world, we ask the question: what is the state of Puerto Rico's independence movement? We welcome Andrés González Berdecía of Radio Independencia to talk about it.
The recent decision by Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán ( MEChA) to drop the word “Chicano” and “Aztlán” from its name has lead to a vigorous discussion in the community. We talk with Mexican American writer Brandon Loran Maxwell about the deba...
225: Breaking the Silence
Unless you literally did not have the Internet last November, you must know about the Idaho elementary school teachers who decided that a Halloween costume of a border wall would make a great idea. Of course, it wasn't. We catch up on the story with re...
**Latino Rebels Radio is proud to cross-post the latest episode from Tamarindo Podcast!**
On this episode of Tamarindo, our very own wellbeing-enthusiast Ana Sheila kicks off our new segment on personal challenges or #retos that push us to take note o...
Earlier this month, Latino Rebels Radio was in Houston, where we got to met up with Tony Diaz, el Librotraficante. Over some very delicious food, Tony shared the latest about Nuestra Palabra's 21st anniversary celebration, why Houston continues to be t...
On Thursday, Rep. Darren Soto (D-FL) led the introduction of the Puerto Rico Admission Act of 2019, a bill calling for Puerto Rico to become the 51st state of the Union. We spoke to him on Friday morning.
On Wednesday night, Latino Rebels Radio was in San Diego. Contributor Sara Gurling spoke with Mitra Ebadolahi of the ACLU spoke about what rights journalists, activists and lawyers have if they are targeted on the border by the government.
Here's another Latino Rebels Radio special: the March installment of the INTELATIN podcast with Sergio Muñoz.
In this episode, Sergio talks about the film LAS HEREDERAS and has a conversation with Argentina's La Yegros.
Music featured by Montoya...
We are thrilled to share this latest interview with Amanda Alcántara, digital media editor at Futuro Media, about her debut book, _Chula_. For more about Amanda's first book and its initial reception, follow #ChulaTheBook.
Democrat Rep. Raúl Grijalva, the new Chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, just came back from a committee visit to Puerto Rico last week. He talks with Latino Rebels about what the committee will do in the next few months to address th...
Gabe Pacheco's debut comedy album, RISKY BEHAVIOR, premiered earlier this month, so we invited him on the show to talk about his work, what inspired him and the time he broke his parents' record player after listening to a Cheech and Chong record.
This past weekend, Latino Rebels was in Austin for SXSW and visited the #AbolishICEBox art exhibit, organized by RAICES. We talk with Jerry Silguero, one of the artists behind the installation, as well as with Barbara Peña of RAICES. We also record fro...
In this episode of Latino Rebels Radio, we speak with Paula Ávila-Guillén about the fight to legalize abortion in several Latin American countries and the work that The Women’s Equality Center is doing, gearing up for legislative pushes around abortion...
As you all may know by now, Latino Rebels is part of Futuro Media, the nonprofit independent media company founded by award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa. Well, we have good news: Maria makes her Latino Rebels Radio guest debut. She talks about her...
A February 21 lawsuit filed by National Immigration Law Center, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the law firm of Sherrard, Roe, Voigt & Harbison alleges that "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detained approximately 100 Latino w...
On Monday morning, we gave Sergio Budar a call about the viral video that shows a woman telling him to "get the f•ck out of my country." The video was taken over the weekend at the Tampico Mexican Restaurant in Parkersburg, West Virginia. Sergio is the...
Is ICE ramping up its enforcement tactics in North Carolina? For the past two weeks, it appears so, according to immigrant rights activists who have been tracking recent events. We talk with Tina Vazquez, senior reporter on Immigration for Rewire.News ...
On the eve of a national mobilization in Washington, D.C., Honduran and Nepali Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders, as well as representatives from unions, national immigrant rights organizations, and legal groups, held a press conference announci...
Last week, the City of Nogales unanimously voted to condemn the concertina wire installed by the federal government on the fence between that divides the Arizona border city from its sister city in Sonora, Mexico. We talk with nogalense journalist Joe ...
In this special Latino Rebels Radio episode, we feature the latest from Sergio Muñoz's INTELATIN show: a conversation with Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, the filmmakers behind "Pájaros de verano" (Birds of Passage), which opened at the 2018 Cannes F...
A few weeks ago, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela was a guest of Hector Luis Alamo's new podcast, [REMEMBER THE SHOW!](https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/hector-alamo/remember-the-show) Hector was once deputy editor for Latino Rebels, so he ...
It is perhaps the most important story of the Western Hemisphere right now: the political crisis in Venezuela. We talk with Venezuelan journalist Eli López about what is happening. López is the International Opinions Editor at the Washington Post.
A...
When "Hamilton" went to Puerto Rico this past month, there seemed to be more media interest than usual about the U.S. territory (we mean, colony). We talk with Puerto Rican journalist Andrea González-Ramírez of Refinery 29 about the latest media narrat...
On Tuesday morning, a media call organized by the Southern Poverty Law Center revealed the news of a class action lawsuit on behalf of 10,000 migrant children detained by the Trump administration. We were on the call and are providing an unedited recor...
We spent a few days in DC last week and had the chance to speak with Mario Lopez of the Hispanic Leadership Fund. Lopez has been an outspoken critic of Trump's immigration policy, but he also shares why he thinks the Republican Party can help the Latin...
As the federal government partial shutdown continues, we travel to DC and chat with Cristina Jiménez of United We Dream about the current immigration debate and how immigrant rights groups like hers are gearing up for what will appear to be yet another...
We start 2019 with some comedy, because why not? In the first Latino Rebels Radio of the new year, we talk with comic Steve Treviño, whose new Comedy Dynamics Network special 'TIL DEATH premieres on January 22\. The South Texas native tells us why it's...
We are finishing up our time off, but our friends at the Latino Media Collective are here to help us with another one of their recent shows. The LMC asks: what does Cuban healthcare actually look like and how does it actually work? Guest Don Fitz talks...
We are still taking a break, but no worries, our friends at the Latino Media Collective are helping us out, with one of their shows from last November.
The undocumented LGBTQ community is a marginalized group within a marginalized group. Freelance w...
Our friends at the Latino Media Collective take over hosting duties this week. For this episode, the LMC explores the history of the Mirabal sisters, whose assassinations by the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo led the United Nations to eventually recog...
Back by popular demand, we did a year-end collaboration with our familia at the Latino Media Collective! Hear what the LMC and Latino Rebels had to say about some of the most important stories of 2018\. ¡Felices fiestas!
Colombia's Bomba Estéreo was in NYC this past week and Latino Rebels' correspondent Amanda Alcántara caught up with Simón Mejía en español, but first, host Julio Ricardo Varela talks about why everyone seems to be trolling LR this weekend.
On Tuesday, a federal immigration court ordered the deportation of nationally known reproductive rights and immigrant rights activist Alejandra Pablos. In this special episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela gives Ale a call to learn ...
It is perhaps one of the most misunderstood and underreported stories from Latin America: the crisis in Honduras and how we got to where we are today. In a conversation that begins to explore the root causes of why so many are leaving Honduras, we chat...
On Wednesday, the American Immigration Council released a report called "The Landscape of Immigration Detention in the U.S." We share the media call about this report and why the information is so relevant today.
This week, Hurray for the Riff Raff's Alynda Segarra is back in Puerto Rico, visiting schools to donate musical instruments for students and getting ready for HFTRR's island debut at La Respuesta in Santurce. Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Vare...
Last weekend in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Colectiva Feminista en Construcción demonstrated in front of the governor's residence to bring more attention to the island's femicide cases. Amanda Alcántara of Futuro Media called up Colectiva Feminista spokespe...
On Friday afternoon, Latino Rebels attended a media call organized by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The purpose of the press conference was to discuss the current situation at the border and the ongoing challenges to the Trump Administration’s war o...
The Latino Media Collective continues guest hosting for us this week with an October show about Guam, a place that has a lot in common with Puerto Rico when it comes to its colonial status under the United States. On this episode, the LMC speaks with C...
Our friends at the Latino Media Collective guest host this week while we take a break. In this episode first broadcast on November 16, the LMC tries to shed light on what U.S. corporate media missed or got completely wrong about the migrant caravan sto...
The last few days in Tijuana have been tense. Reports of migrants getting targeted by groups of people shouting MEXICO FIRST and being told to go back home has gotten international attention. Nonetheless, organizations like Border Angels and their alli...
This past week, Migrant Justice in Vermont filed a federal lawsuit, alleging that several of its members were being targeted by ICE, DHS and the state's DMV just for their activism. We speak with Will Lambek of Migrant Justice about the lawsuit and how...
As we look back at Election Day and understand how the national Latino vote is evolving, we share a media call from earlier this week about exit polls and Latinos. Could it be that the "sleeping giant" is starting to rumble?
Featured image by RENDAN S...
In this special Election Day episode, we run a Tuesday morning media call about a new national poll that challenges the conventional political wisdom that President Trump's immigration propaganda is helping him. It isn't helping him at all, in case you...
We connect with the fabulous Pilar Marrero, whose recent Latino Rebels story about why the LA Times published different political endorsements in English and Spanish caused the newspaper to offer a formal apology. In addition, we ask Pilar the question...
A new research brief about the role of Latina voters was released on October 31\. The following Latino Rebels Radio features a public media call with UnidosUS and California Civic Engagement Project, the two organizations who shared their findings abou...
Our friends at the Latino Media Collective guest host this week's show. In this episode, the LMC shines the spotlight on the struggle for gender equality in Argentina women's futbol. Despite a lack of support, institutional sexism, and hazardous traini...
Last Tuesday, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela made a guest appearance on the Latinos Out Loud podcast. The conversation was unfiltered and real, covering a wide range of topics like how Latino Rebels was formed and the state of Latinx med...
Last Thursday, a Prince George's County police officer stopped an undocumented woman and allegedly raped her. By this past Monday, the officer was arrested and suspended. By Wednesday, there was a court hearing. We talk with Ingrid Zelaya of CASA Maryl...
Our friends at the Latino Media Collective take over the hosting chair with its first episode on Trinidad and Tobago. The LMC speaks with Andre Bagoo about a landmark victory for the local LGBTQ community that struck down colonial-era anti-gay laws. Ba...
With all the focus on El Salvador (Romero's canonization) and Nicaragua (Ortega's government), news of a spontaneous migrant caravan occurred in Honduras over the weekend. This comes at a time when Vice President Pence is urging Central American countr...
We wanted to share an October 10 media call that Latino Rebels attended about the efforts to register Puerto Rican voters in Central Florida. On the call are Rep. Darren Soto (D-FL), Frederick Vélez of Respeta Mi Gente, Betsy Franceschini of the Hispan...
Our friends at the Latino Media Collective take over Latino Rebels Radio this week with several podcasts. For the first show, the LMC revisits the story of the struggle for independence in Western Sahara, one of only two regions in Africa where Spanish...
On Wednesday, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against the end of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program for people from Sudan, Haiti, Nicaragua and El Salvador. What does this all mean and how will the Trump administration respond...
Joe Gomez used to be the press person for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), an anti-immigrant organization labeled a hate group by the SPLC. After nine months at FAIR, Gomez quit his job because of the racism he experienced. He exp...
One year after Hurricane María destroyed Puerto Rico last September, we revisit our conversation with noted Puerto Rican political commentator Jay Fonseca about what is missing in the coverage during the one-year anniversary.
As the one-year anniversary of Hurricane María nears, the victims of the worst storm in the history of modern Puerto Rico have become political fodder for President Trump. Host Julio Ricardo Varela retracks the origins of how we get here and also speak...
The Latino Media Collective continues its guest hosting with another new show.
In this episode, the LMC speaks with Sabrina Fernandes about the struggle for reproductive rights in Brazil. as the religious right continues its plan to eliminate Brazil...
The Latino Media Collective continues its guest hosting slot this week with another episode.
Thirty-eight years after his assassination, Salvadoran archbishop Oscar Romero is being canonized for sainthood. The LMC speaks with Michael E. Lee about the ...
Latino Rebels Radio is on vacation but we are thrilled to share an episode from our friends at the Latino Media Collective.
Puerto Rico was not the only country hit hard by last year's hurricane season. The LMC speaks with Dr Matthew Quest about the...
A couple of weeks ago, Latino Rebels had a Facebook Live conversation with Grammy winner Ileana Cabra Joglar, also known as iLe. So we decided to share the audio version of the video convo, talking about her latest ["Odio" single](https://www.youtube.c...
Earlier in August, a bill to legalize abortion lost in Argentina's senate, but for Argentine Giselle Carino, the CEO of International Planned Parenthood’s Western Hemisphere region, the bill's defeat means optimism for reproductive rights in Latin Amer...
Last Sunday, we spoke about the July 28 shooting death of 44-year-old Joseph “Joey” Santos in Allentown, PA, at the hands of a South Whitehall Township police officer. This past week, officer Jonathan R. Roselle was charged with voluntary manslaughter....
On July 28, 44-year-old Joey Santos was killed at Dorney Park in Allentown, PA, after multiple shots from the gun of a South Whitehall Township police officer. Several videos showing the incident were posted on social media, raising questions about how...
On July 23, Karla Estrada wrote a piece on Medium that raised serious allegations against Iván Ceja, executive director and co-founder of UndocuMedia. Karla's very honest and brave words have led to several accountability questions about Ceja and Undoc...
The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela is a book very much for today.
Mandela has left us a rich treasure of letters that document his 27 years in prison. They speak of the anger, the self-control and his love of country and people that led to such a s...
We are back from our week-long break, and we wanted to have a more contextual conversation about the nation's current immigration debate Marisa Franco of [Mijente](https://mijente.net/) breaks it down with us, and no, this conversation won't be as simp...
During our week off, our friends at the Latino Media Collective are guest hosting the podcast.
For this episode, the LMC asks: What is it like to be undocumented and LGBTQ? Does the Latino LGBTQ immigrant community receive support from the rest of t...
We wanted to share one more episode from our friends at the [Latino Media Collective](https://latinomediacollective.com/), who guest host for us while we are off.
Something is missing from the migrant crisis that is separating families: MONEY. There...
We are off this week but don't worry: our friends at the Latino Media Collective are guest hosting!
While the boys have their fun at the World Cup in Russia, the LMC dedicates this episode to the secret history of Mexican women's fútbol and the brigh...
On Friday morning, a press call with the same co-counsel who filed the 1985 complaint that led to the original Flores Settlement Agreement have filed another lawsuit for five immigrant children "challenging the government’s cruel policies and practices...
On Tuesday, Puerto Rico governor Ricardo Rosselló was in Aspen, Colorado, for the Aspen Ideas Festival and so was our host Julio Ricardo Varela. In this extra LR Radio segment, Julio asks the governor a few questions about the Hurricane María death tol...
Our host Julio Ricardo Varela was out in Aspen, Colorado, this week but he managed to connect with immigration lawyer [Hassan Ahmad](https://twitter.com/HMAesq) and discuss the latest Supreme Court ruling, the thinking behind family separation and will...
Every four years, we kind of stop everything we are doing to watch the World Cup, and for some reason, this year's tournament already feels special, especially with Mexico winning Sunday against Germany. We talk World Cup with [Ray Collazo of RaysPodca...
With news of [a Harvard School of Public Health study](http://www.latinorebels.com/2018/05/29/70timesdeathtoll/) estimating that there were close to 5,000 excess deaths in Puerto Rico after Hurricane María, we wanted to talk with [Alexis Santos Lozada]...
Our friends at the Latino Media Collective are back guest hosting this week's Latino Rebels Radio.
Why does it seem that Paraguay is so isolated to the rest of Latin America? The answer may lie in a genocidal war that almost destroyed the country an...
We did a quick recording with San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz on Wednesday morning to talk about [the new Harvard study](http://www.latinorebels.com/2018/05/29/70timesdeathtoll/) which said that the death count in Puerto Rico due to Hurricane María is...
The political crisis [continues in Nicaragua](https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/human-rights-body-calls-on-nicaragua-to-protect-students/), and Latino Rebels Radio talks with [Rita Delia Casco](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1...
The Latino Media Collective continues guest hosting Latino Rebels Radio with this show from earlier this spring.
Is there life after deportation in Guatemala? Willy Barreno, the co-founder of DESGUA, says yes. He speaks with the LMC about his organiza...
Our friends at the Latino Media Collective take over the Latino Rebels Radio host chair this week with a story about the construction of the Panama Canal, built for the benefit of U.S. imperialism, under the dark cloud of Jim-Crow racism, with little r...
On the weekend of our seventh birthday, Latino Rebels founder [@julito77](http://twitter.com/julito77) shares his thoughts about the past, present and future of LR.
One week before Cinco De Mayo falls on a Saturday, we look at the latest #CincoDeFallo fails of 2018 with [@GregorioEats](https://twitter.com/GregorioEats), the Oracle of Cinco De Fallo.
For more about #CincoDeFallo, just go [here](https://twitter.com...
In the past week, Nicaragua has seen protests that have led to dozens of deaths. What is happening and why does it matter? Latino Rebels Radio talks with [Catherine María Rodríguez](https://twitter.com/latinadramaturg), a Nicaraguan-American who has be...
This past week, Arizona's Supreme Court unanimously [struck down](https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2018/04/09/arizona-supreme-court-strikes-down-in-state-tuition-for-daca-students/) in-state tuition for DACA students. We talk with undocumented rights lea...
A few weeks after the March For Our Lives in DC and a speech that broke the internet, Latino Rebels' Sharis Delgadillo speaks with Edna Chávez and Hakim Johnson from Community Coalition in Los Angeles.
While Puerto Rico continues to recover from Hurricane María, the island's current pro-statehood government has announced a commission or "shadow" group of representatives who are trying to call more attention to making the U.S. territory the 51st state...
This week on Latino Rebels Radio, our friends at the Latino Media Collective take over our feed as guest hosts. The LMC asks: Can Brazil's unionized sex workers, through activism and organizing, overcome the stigma and general disdain for their profess...
This Tuesday March 20 will be the six-month anniversary of Hurricane María devastating Puerto Rico. Julio López Varona of [The Center for Popular Democracy](https://populardemocracy.org/) joins us to discuss how the island has changed and why what happ...
[The Latino Media Collective](https://latinomediacollective.com/) guest hosts this week's show and takes us to the Central American country of Belize. Janelle Chanona, cice rpesident of [the Belize Committee of Oceana](http://belize.oceana.org/), speak...
Latino Rebels Radio is out early this weekend, as Alex Nogales of the [National Hispanic Media Coalition](http://www.nhmc.org/) joins us to talk about the [Lesly Kahn fiasco that Latino Rebels covered](http://www.latinorebels.com/2018/02/25/audio-from-...
The Latino Media Collective guest hosts this week's Latino Rebels Radio with an episode Canada's immigration system. For several years, the Canadian immigration system has become more in lockstep with the United States, especially when it comes to asyl...
This past weekend, [HuffPost national reporter Roque Planas](https://twitter.com/RoqPlanas) wrote [a story about Norma Herrera](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/undocumented-immigrants-ptsd_us_5a74e117e4b06ee97af29715?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004), wh...
So... our Internet went down tonight and we had issues with a live show, but that didn't stop us from going on with the show and calling up Brenda Gonzalez Ricards of [Tamarindo Podcast](https://www.tamarindopodcast.com). Once we got it all squared awa...
We decided to drop a BONUS show this week, because our friends at the Latino Media Collective are such cool guest hosts, so for this episode, the LMC focuses on what is going on in Argentina and the country's economic policies. Juan Cruz Ferré, a colum...
The Latino Media Collective guest hosts in this episode about setting the record straight about the Haitian-American experience and Temporary Protected Status (TPS). What does it mean for a community that has been part of U.S. history since the start t...
What is happening to individuals providing humanitarian aid to migrants? According to Tucson's NO MORE DEATHS/NO MÁS MUERTES, it means [getting arrested by Border Patrol agents.](http://www.latinorebels.com/2018/01/25/border-patrol-arrests-humanitarian...
What's missing from the current debate about the government shutdown? We talk with Juan Escalante of America's Voice from DC.
Earlier this week, the Trump administration [said it would eliminate Temporary Protective Status for El Salvador](http://www.latinorebels.com/2018/01/08/this-is-what-dhs-said-about-terminating-tps-for-el-salvador-today/), directly impacting the lives o...
The Latino Media Collective guest hosts Latino Rebels Radio this week and interviews Daniel Cano, co-founder of the Kuykuitin Project, about the social justice struggle for the Mapuche people of Chile. Cano explains the little-known history of the Mapu...
This week, we did a show with the Latino Media Collective! Hear what the LMC and Latino Rebels had to say about some of the most important stories of 2017. ¡Feliz Año Nuevo! Happy New Year!
Guest host Latino Media Collective is back, and asks: What does it mean to be black and beautiful in Ecuador? And how has the rise of Afro-Latinos in Ecuadorian society changed the country's national identity? Professor Hugo Benavides, chair of the For...
As she finishes up her time as NYC Council Speaker, Melissa Mark-Viverito talks with Latino Rebels Radio about Puerto Rico in a world after Hurricane María, why "politiquería" continues to dominate Puerto Rican society and what needs to change.
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 a...
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 re...
BONUS: The Best Journalists in Puerto Rico That You Probably Never Knew About
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 share...
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 d...
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.
For more, visit PRontheMap.com
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 justic...
The Latino Media Collective guest hosts this week's Latino Rebels Radio. What is it like to live in Brazil's prison system? Brazilian freelance journalist Fernanda Canofre talks about the dangers of riots, torture, disease, corruption, and racial profi...
The Latino Media Collective takes over the host chair this week with a conversation about how femicide in Mexico has has gone beyond Ciudad Juarez and the country's northern states. Freelance journalist Nidia Bautista joins the show to explain why the ...
This week, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela got to talk with his cousin Omar, who lives in Dorado, Puerto Rico, about life after Hurricane Maria.
For more episodes, go to LatinoRebels.com
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The Puerto Rican government says the official death toll from Hurricane María is at 16, but reports from the island contradict that number, and a new story from the Center for Investigative Journalism (CPI) published news of deaths that the government...
In this special episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela calls Jay Fonseca in Puerto Rico about the devastation caused by Hurricane María.
For more episodes: http://www.latinorebels.com/category/radio/
Where does the debate on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) go next? César Vargas, director of Dream Action Coalition, discusses the politics of Trump's decision and what DACA recipients can do.
We close the show with Luis E. Mora, who sh...
We gave the Latino Media Collective another guest hosting slot, and this week, the LMC asks: are Filipinos Asians or Latinos? Anthony Ocampo, author of THE LATINOS OF ASIA, joins the show to discuss. Ocampo is also an associate professor of sociology a...
The Latino Media Collective guests hosts Latino Rebels Radio this week with a show about Guam. What does Guam have to do with Latinos and Latin America? What do Guam and Puerto Rico have in common? A lot more than people realize. On this episode, the L...
This week the Latino Media Collective guest hosts Latino Rebels Radio. Investigative journalist Jack Werner joins us to discuss the insidious presence of McDonald's in Latin America as a colonial outpost to spread U.S. consumer capitalism. When it come...
Leaders of the Latinx Student Alliance at the University of Virginia discuss the recent events in Charlottesville, where one of their members was hurt during the August 12 "Unite The Right" rally—the same day Heather Heyer was also killed after a car ...
The Latino Media Collective guest hosts Latino Rebels Radio this week! LMC cruises down the boulevard as we explore the rich and complex history of lowriders and how this once marginalized subculture became an international phenomenon. Our guest for th...
For this week's Latino Rebels Radio, special guest co-host Brenda Gonzalez of Tamarindo Podcast joined us one more time.
We start with the latest about #FreeRomulo, the campaign to stop the deportation of Rómulo Avelica-González. David Abud, one of ...
Special guest host Brenda Gonzalez of Tamarindo Podcast joins us!
We kick off the show with Benjamín Ramírez, whose story went viral earlier this week when a man knocked over his elote cart. Many saw this as a another form of gentrification and sparke...
The Latino Media Collective is back guest hosting Latino Rebels Radio this week with another episode about Equatorial Guinea, the only Spanish-speaking republic in Africa. Tutu Alicante, the executive director of EG Justice, discusses the influence E...
El Librotraficante, Tony Diaz, updates us on the lawsuit against HB 2281—the Arizona law that bans the Mexican-American studies program. With the case now in the courts, what will happen next? Later, Cristina Tzintzun, founder and director of Jolt Texa...
Vacation was great, but now we're back and Helado Negro, the music and performance work of Roberto Carlos Lange, joins us to talk about music, life and the album Private Energy. We play some tracks too.
Our friends at the Latino Media Collective take over Latino Rebels Radio this week. One year after the Pulse nightclub massacre, the LMC speaks w/ Xorje Olivares about the erasure & lack of coverage of Queer Latino culture. Xorje Olivares is a radio pe...
This week the Latino Media Collective is back on Latino Rebels Radio with a new episode. In the latest LMC show, Hector Silva Avalos, a Salvadoran journalist and fellow at American University, discusses the facts and myths about MS-13. For more about ...
Donald Trump went to Miami last Friday to roll back part of President Obama's Cuba policy. What does it mean now? We chat with Alfredo Estrado of LATINO magazine about it all.
Later in the show, we talk about Mijente's Latinx Anti-Blackness Killed Phi...
With all the news about President Trump's positions on DACA, we wanted to share the following 2015 show that gives more context to how DACA was viewed during the Obama administration. Here is our conversation with immigration attorney Matthew Kolken. ...
For this holiday weekend, Latino Rebels Radio gives you a BONUS episode from our friends at Latino Media Collective! The LMC goes north of the border to speak with Todd Gordon, author of "Imperialist Canada" and "Blood of Extraction: Canadian Imperiali...
Latino Rebels Radio is off for the holiday weekend, but our friends at the Latino Media Collective take over the show with a episode from late March. Sabrina Fernandes returns to speak with the LMC on the internal fragmentation within the Brazilian le...
The National Puerto Rican Day Parade is facing another controversy after announcing that it would honor Oscar López Rivera, the 74-year-old nationalist whose federal sentence for "seditious conspiracy" was commuted by President Obama earlier this year....
When Texas governor Greg Abbott went on Facebook Live to sign Senate Bill 4 on May 7, it took many by surprise, including many Texans who have been fighting against the bill. To opponents of SB 4, the new bill is just a more subtle version of Arizona's...
The Latino Media Collective takes over Latino Rebels Radio this week. Laura Embree-Lowry, the program director for CISPES, joins the show to discuss the historic mining ban in El Salvador. She explains how El Salvador became the first country in the wo...
This week two members of iconic LA-based band Ozomatli, Raúl Pacheco and Ulises Bella, join Latino Rebels to talk about the group's upcoming album and what it's like to be musicians in the age of Trump. More at ozomatli.com
Featured image by Sharis D...
This week, Latino Rebels Radio talked with Daniel Robelo of the Caravan Against Fear, a grassroots mobilization that is traveling from California to Texas to defend immigrant rights, keep families together, resist Trump and build momentum for the May 1...
We are off this week, but our friends at the Latino Media Collective take over Latino Rebels Radio (we call LMC our "third host") with an episode about the Falkland Islands War. April marks the 35th anniversary of the war between Argentina and the UK,...
Our friends at the Latino Media Collective take over Latino Rebels Radio again this week with Jonathan Jayes-Green, the co-founder of the Undocublack Network. Jonathan talks about the immigrant experience from the Afro-diaspora point of view from Latin...
We bust the myth that undocumented immigrants don't pay taxes with Belén Sisa, who will be talking about her recent viral story and what the reaction has been—both the positive AND the negative.
Our friends at the Latino Media Collective take over Latino Rebels Radio this week with their late February show on sanctuary cities. Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia Hernandez speaks with the LMC about recent actions taken against immigrant community in the U....
Latino Rebels Radio co-host Sharis Delgadillo chatted with Residente at SXSW about his newest documentary and his latest music.
This is not fake news. This week, Latino Rebels Radio spoke with THE John Leguizamo about his show, LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS, which is at NYC's Public Theater until the end of April.
Later in the show, Sharis joins us from SXSW to share her clips wit...
Julito and Sharis are back with a new Latino Rebels Radio episode this week. We start the show with Sharis' recent visit to DC and an independent journalism conference that she attended for the Rebeldes.
Then, we spoke with Silvio Carrillo, nephew of...
This week on Latino Rebels Radio, our friends at Latino Media Collective are back with a new show. LMC engineer Abby Roberts takes the lead in speaking with Brujas skateboarder and herbal healing activist Antonia Perez on the importance of Latina femin...
We start with a story from California that went viral during Thursday's "Day Without Immigrants" protest. At Rubidoux High School, several teachers were put on paid leave after they posted public social media comments mocking students who did not atten...
¡Tenemos más Latino Rebels en español! Sharis habla con Ramón Emilio Calendario, actor de la película dominicana, 'Carpinteros'.
¡Latino Rebels en español! Sharis habla con Jean Jean, actor principal de la película dominicana, 'Carpinteros'.
While Sharis was at Sundance this year, she got to talk with writer/director José María Cabral, whose “Carpinteros” (Woodpeckers) is the first feature film from the Dominican Republic to debut at the Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Dramatic ...
We discuss the news of recent ICE raids with New York immigration attorney Bryan Johnson, Arizona activist Maria Castro, CHIRLA communication director Jorge-Mario Cabrera and NDLON national campaign coordinator Salvador G. Sarmiento.
Our friends at the Latino Media Collective host this week's Latino Rebels Radio. In this episode, freelance journalist Bryan Miranda speaks with LMC about the struggle for environmental justice by the indigenous Shuar community of Ecuador as they fight...
Immigration attorney Matthew Kolken joined us to give us his thoughts about President Donald Trump's immigration ban. He also told us what people can do to protect yourself from deportation.
Later in the show, co-host Sharis Delgadillo introduced us t...
Our friends at the Latino Media Collective take over Latino Rebels Radio this week to shed light on Bolivia's current drought crisis and lack of accessible water. Is it setting the stage for a repeat of the 2000 Water War? Nasya Razavi tells us the la...
We were supposed to give you a live show about the end of the "Wet Foot, Dry Foot" policy and the "Here to Stay" protests, but our host had audio issues and we couldn't do the episode. Julito explains what happened.
On December 23, the Facebook page of Conejo Productions published a video called BOYS WILL BE BOYS. It boldly confronted machismo culture in the Latino community. Since then, the video has been viewed more than 8 million times. Gloria Morán and Kimberl...
We end the year with one special show! Our friends at the Latino Media Collective interview our co-hosts Julio Ricardo Varela and Sharis Delgadillo about 2016.
This week, Latino Media Collective takes over Latino Rebels Radio with its latest show: Laura Carlsen, executive director of the Americas Program for the Center for International Policy, gives us her analysis of Colombia following its stunning NO vote ...
Cornell University student Paola Muñoz discusses her powerful Huffington Post piece, which talks about the emotional labor students of color face on the Ithaca campus. She will tell us why she chose to write this article and what students can do to hav...
This week on Latino Rebels Radio: Eduardo Arenas (É Arenas), bassist for Chicano Batman, joins us. É will tell us about his new solo effort, Nariz. We'll play a few songs from that album and also talk about Chicano Batman's upcoming Freedom Is Free alb...
For this week's Latino Rebels Radio, we discuss the latest from the Dakota Access pipeline protest. Thousands of water protectors were determined to stop the construction of a new petroleum pipeline that they say will poison their water supply and dest...
Fidel Castro died on November 26. He was 90 years old.
Cuban American musician and Latino Rebels contributor Dave Sandoval joins us to talk about the reaction to Castro's death and why this means to the future of Cuba. Later, Luis Marentes adds his t...
A full house on Latino Rebels Radio.
Donald Trump has talked about registering and tracing Muslims living across the United States. Immigration attorney Matthew Kolken joins us to discuss the legalities of such a registry as well as where we have seen...
This week on Latino Rebels Radio, we recap the 2016 election. What happened? We start the show with César Vargas (yes, another César Vargas), one of the leading immigrant rights leaders in the country. He will give us his take on the election and tell ...
We start the show with César Vargas, founder of UPLIFTT, to discuss his Huffington Post op-ed that got a lot of attention this week. He will tell us why he can no longer support Hillary Clinton and what was the turning point for changing his mind.
Lat...
On October 26, Latino Rebels Radio recorded a live podcast from the Bronx Library Center, thanks to the New York Public Library and AudioBoom.
In this latest episode, we discuss the past, present and future of the Bronx with New York City Council S...
This week the Latino Media Collective takes over Latino Rebels Radio with its October 7 show about the political crisis in Venezuela. Gabriel Hetland discusses the history of violence by the Venezuelan opposition against the former government of Hugo ...
With about three weeks to go until Election Day 2016, we look back at the state of Latinos and presidential politics in this campaign season, as Erika Andiola joins us. Erika was part of the Bernie Sanders campaign, is now back in DC working at Our Rev...
Latino Rebels Radio will be back on October 16, but our friends at the Latino Media Collective take over our channel this week. On this episode, LMC speaks with Lydia Crafts about the U.S. history of human experimentations in Guatemala during the 1940'...
On September 28, former immigrant detainees confronted head of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson outside a public speaking event to demand he address the crisis inside immigrant detention centers and cut the department’s contracts with private prisons.
Ja...
Our friends at the Latino Media Collective take over Latino Rebels Radio once again with a topic we have covered in the past.
Independent journalist and skateboarder Juan Ramirez chronicles the contributions and innovations made by Latinos to the cr...
We speak with activist Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez, who shared her thoughts about the two-year anniversary of the 43 students who disappeared in Iguala. Two years later and there are still no answers. Where do we go from here?
Later in the show, organiz...
This week, our friends at the Latino Media Collective take over Latino Rebels Radio.
Recently, an Amnesty International report revealed institutional sexual abuses and torture against women in Mexico's prison system. LMC talks with freelance journali...
National Association of Hispanic Journalists president Brandon Benavides talks about what NAHJ is doing to raise awareness about why the upcoming presidential debates don't have a Latino moderator.
During a week that saw Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump visit Mexico and then give an immigration speech in Phoenix, the Latinx digital media world has been obsessed about taco trucks ever since Marco Gutierrez of Latinos for Trump went o...
On our first show back from our break, we opened our phone lines and had callers pay tribute to Juan Gabriel, who died on August 28, 2016 in Santa Monica, California.
Main image via www.vivaiquique.com
Our friends at the Latino Media Collective take over Latino Rebels Radio with a new show.
Our long-neglected neighbors in Belize achieved a major court victory this month as the Belize courts overturned a colonial-era anti-gay law called Section 53....
Latino Rebels Radio is on vacation for one more week, so we decided to rebroadcast this show from 2014, when we we covering what was happening in Murrieta, California.
Latino Rebels Radio is on vacation until late August, so we wanted to share our show from last June, just days after Donald Trump announced his candidacy for President. Remember those anti-Mexican comments and how everyone except for a small group of L...
For the past few months, Latino Rebels Radio has been featuring the work of Oscar Fernández and the Latino Media Collective. This week from Washington, D.C., we spoke to Oscar about why focuses on stories that many Latinos know very little about.
This week Latino Rebels Radio decided to do something different: our host was in Cleveland during the Republican National Convention and talked immigration with a Donald Trump delegate from Quincy, Massachusetts. Here is their conversation.
This special Latino Rebels Radio episode features (once again) our friends at the Latino Media Collective as they discuss the Black Lives Matter movement in Brazil with Professor Jaime Alves from the College of Staten Island.
Much like Equatorial Guinea, the former Spanish colony of Western Sahara is almost non-existent in the consciousness of Latinos in the US. This week our friends at the Latino Media Collective take over Latino Rebels Radio to interview Stephen Zunes o...
We welcome comedian and actor Al Madrigal! He will be speaking to us about the Latino Comedy Festival: a celebration of the Latino community and its impact on the comedy world. He'll also tell you how you can volunteer!
On the second half of the sho...
Rosa Clemente is one of the most honest, political, social and cultural voices in the country, having dedicated her life to scholar activism. She joins us to discuss the recent events in Baton Rogue, Falcon Heights, Dallas and others parts of this nati...
Viridiana Hernandez, public policy director at the Center for Neighborhood Leadership, joins us to discuss the Supreme Court's decision to block Obama Administration's executive order on DAPA and DACA. She will tell us what this means to the Latino com...
We took another week off because of summer, so we are running a 2015 rebroadcast of our talk with Carlos Steven Vazquez, whose video of an older woman telling his family to stop speaking Spanish in a Los Angeles Koreatown IHOP in LA went viral on Faceb...
We took the weekend off for Father's Day, so we're rebroadcasting this 2015 show. First up, Raúl Pérez, author of "Brownface Minstrelsy: ‘José Jiménez,’ the Civil Rights Movement and the Legacy of Racist Comedy." In the second half of the show, Alex Al...
We're honored to have high school valedictorian Larissa Martinez, who recently made a bold statement at her graduation speech. She will tell us what the reaction has been and what she plans to do in the future.
Also joining us will be Pedro Julio Serr...
We are happy to present another episode from the Latino Media Collective. For this show, Aaron Fountain, a PhD student in the department of American History at Indiana University-Bloomington, discusses the surprisingly extensive history of urban Latino...
Meet Tamarindo, a socially conscious podcast with a Latino vibe. Luis Octavio and Brenda Gonzalez tell us all about their podcast and what lies ahead for their show.
Then our very own Omar Cruz shares his thoughts about the death of the great Muhammad...
We took the weekend off for Memorial Day, so this week we are replaying a 2015 interview with Nelson A. Denis, author of War Against All Puerto Ricans.
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We talk with Carlos Andrés Gómez, an HBO Def Poet, actor, speaker and author. He will be talking to us about his latest spoken word poem, which has gotten a lot of traction on the internet and asks the question: What does "Hispanic" look like? He'll g...
We are honored to feature once again our friends at Latino Media Collective. In this show, the LMC team speaks with Fabian Debora, a former gang member turned artist. Fabian talks about his incredible story of his descent into gang land and drug use to...
Jorge Herrera is a Mexican-American Donald Trump supporter from California who explains why he thinks Latinos are all wrong about Trump.
New York-based immigration lawyer Matthew Kolken shares his thoughts about how the recent announcement of planned...
We took this weekend off to celebrate Mother's Day, so we shared a September 28, 2014 show that we believe is very relevant to the debate about identity, culture and the 2016 presidential election. When is freedom of expression, one of this country's g...
For this special episode of Latino Rebels Radio, our founder Julio Ricardo Varela looks back at our past five years and asks our community: where do we go next?
Do you know why there's a hunger strike going on in San Francisco right now? Marce Graudinš joins us to discuss the efforts by activists to have the police chief step down after a series of racist text were discovered by officers.
Later, Anna Gold t...
Louis E. Perego Moreno, founder and executive producer of Prime Latino Media, joined us to discuss his "A Latino Call to Arms in Not Supporting the Tribeca Film Festival" opinion piece.
Later in the show, we spend some time telling you all about t...
Our friends at the Latino Media Collective have taken over our channel once again and we are happy to have them. In their latest episode, LMC talks with Guadalupe Rosales, indie artist and creator of the Instagram account entitled, "Veteranas and Rucas...
This past week POLITICO reported that several progressive groups have targeted HUD Secretary Julián Castro, questioning his vice presidential qualifications if Hillary Clinton were to win the Democratic presidential nomination. That campaign led to dis...
No Water for You
July 13, 202320min 9sec
Amid a record breaking heat wave throughout Texas that has led to several heat-related deaths, Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a bill eliminating mandatory water breaks for construction workers. Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Daniela Hernandez, state legislative coordinator for the Workers Defense Project, to discuss the cruel and punitive nature of the bill and how they plan to fight back.