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Founder, @latnewsletter (2024), @latinorebels (2011). Sr. Producer/Strategist, freepress.net. @MSNOWNews columnist. Opinions mine & no one else's 🇵🇷
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Reports from the "New America"

Harvard Magazine — The pioneering media site LatinoRebels.com, founded in 2011 by Julio Ricardo Varela '90, criticized a Coors Brewing Company advertising campaign for linking Puerto Ricans to drunkenness; the ads were pulled. It published video of Puerto Rican independence supporters burning an American flag to protest an island visit by President Barack Obama-an act that LatinoRebels.com found "disgraceful."
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Julio Ricardo Varela on being the only Latino (Rebel) in the room

Julio Ricardo Varela on being the only Latino (Rebel) in the room

America Magazine — "Being the only Latino means that while the white men get to disagree with each other and develop idiosyncratic or counterintuitive arguments, you can never just say how you feel or what you think about a story," wrote Julio Ricardo Varela in .
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Tom Brokaw Wants Hispanics To Speak English

Tom Brokaw Wants Hispanics To Speak English

Fortune — The former NBC Nightly News anchor was forced to apologize after calling out Hispanics for failing to assimilate. Here's why he was wrong
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Opinion | Trump and Beto's dueling rallies were a preview of every 2020 debate to come

Opinion | Trump and Beto's dueling rallies were a preview of every 2020 debate to come

NBC News — El Paso, Texas on Monday night marked the real start of the 2020 presidential campaign: Two dueling rallies with two contrasting messages that will force Americans to finally chose whether to embrace a changing county or fear it. Even though former Rep.
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Opinion | Puerto Ricans saw too many dead to believe the government's death toll

Opinion | Puerto Ricans saw too many dead to believe the government's death toll

NBC News — We knew. When the government of Puerto Rico kept saying that the official death toll, two weeks after Hurricane María, was only 16 people, we knew that the figure was not even close to being real.
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Day Before Trump Tweets About Death Count, Puerto Rican Govt Officials Met With White House to Di...

Day Before Trump Tweets About Death Count, Puerto Rican Govt Officials Met With White House to Di...

Latino Rebels — A private meeting at the White House between a Trump administration official and members of the government of Puerto Rico to discuss messaging for Hurricane María happened on Wednesday, a day before President Trump tweeted that the official hurricane death count of 2,975 lives was being inflated by Democrats to make him "look as bad as possible," sources told Latino Rebels.
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ANALYSIS: How Does Trump Administration's Newest Deportation Report Compare to Obama's?

ANALYSIS: How Does Trump Administration's Newest Deportation Report Compare to Obama's?

Latino USA — On Tuesday, the Justice Department published a media release called "Return to Rule of Law in Trump Administration Marked by Increase in Key Immigration Statistics," where it listed the last six months of data from the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) for orders of removal, voluntary departures and final decisions.
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Will US Honor Results of Puerto Rico's June 11 Plebiscite Vote? DOJ Official Declines to Comment

Will US Honor Results of Puerto Rico's June 11 Plebiscite Vote? DOJ Official Declines to Comment

Latino USA — After explaining that the Department of Justice has not approved or reviewed the ballot language of Puerto Rico's upcoming June 11 plebiscite status vote, a DOJ official declined to comment about whether the United States government will even honor the vote's results, according to an email response sent to Latino USA on Wednesday.
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