Following the whole hubbub over Sarah Palin’s pricey wardrobe, Puerto Ricans would like to remind us that their government officials are just as shady. As you might recall, Puerto Rican Governor Jose Anibal Acevedo was criticized for, among other...

Daddy Yankee, recipient of Harvard’s illustrious “Latino of the Year” joke award and stalwart supporter of Presidential candidate John McCain, moderated a debate among candidates vying to be Puerto Rico’s next governor. And he didn’t fuck it all up...

While many young men dream of cars and ladies or Michael Phelps standing over their beds wearing nothing but his gold medals, twenty-four-year-old Angel Pantoja Medina of Puerto Rico had a different dream: To stand upright at his wake...

Puerto Rico’s New Progressive Party is declaring the island’s Spanish-only voting ballots discriminatory, probably because they see this as a good way of ensuring Puerto Rico becomes the language-obsessed U.S.’s 51st state: A Spanish-only ballot discriminates against 14 percent...

Puerto Ricans of all walks of life descended upon Fifth Avenue in New York this past Saturday to celebrate the 51st annual Puerto Rican Day Parade, also known as Upper East Side Terror Observance Day. We at Guanabee take...

As Obama gets ready to garner no votes in Puerto Rico because Latinos hate and fear Black people (What? Black Latinos? Ha! They ride unicorns, right?), a lot of celebrities, some of which we’re not sure are even eligible...

Listen up, Puerto Rico! It’s almost time for you to forget to vote and Barack Obama would really appreciate it if you’d vote for him, kthnx. Oh, what’s that? You don’t wash dishes for a living? No, no, it’s...

America has no problem electing a president who was too drunk throughout college to remember his cocaine problem, but when it comes to a woman presidential candidate, 2.8 seconds of hip swaying to an Enrique Iglesias song with an...

Not content to let governors in New York hog the media spotlight, Puerto Rican governor Anibal Acevedo got gotten into some custom-fit troubles of his own. He is currently facing allegations of campaign finance violations, conspiracy, wire fraud and...

Gawker alerted us to the existence of one Adrian Chen, a young man whose thirst for life, despite having a mother whose bones turned into soup, is rivaled only by our thirst for gin. Browsing through Mr. Chen’s videos...

The Puerto Rican Day Parade is looking for a Puerto Rican princess to add a little glamour and maybe boobs to the day’s festivities: Organizers of the annual Bronx Puerto Rican Day Parade - celebrating its 20th anniversary this...

The Boston Globe published today a photo essay of the happiest places on earth. According to the Globe, researchers at the University of Leicester in the UK recently published the first world map of happiness. [Ed. Note: The Guanabee...

We like tamales as much as the next person, but we never knew they were associated with Christmas, because, in the beautiful serape of Latin American culture, we are on a totally different thread. So, we decided to offer...

In an effort to combat their wild monkey problem, Puerto Rico has decided to ship about 30 monkeys to a facility in Central Florida, where no one lives anyway. Kidding, Florida. We totally tolerate you: About 30 patas monkeys...

Someone who really cares about the outcome of beauty pageants pepper sprayed the evening gowns and spiked the makeup of a contestant in the Miss Puerto Rico competition yesterday bringing beauty queen and Latino stereotypes crashing into one, giant...

Panama reggae “artist” Nigga (Yes, Nigga. You’d think brother wants to start some shit up or something) claims that reggaetón was stolen, appropriated, and commercialized by Puerto Ricans. He claims that reggaetón originated in Panama, influenced by the local...

Our sister’s boyfriend’s cousin Pito who delivers sushi at Viacom totally hooked us up with this super secret, advance clip of the new Menudo single, “Más Que Amor (A E I O U).” Yes! It’s got the vowels in...

Vanity Fair’s current issue profiles 29 year-old Puerto Rican mami actress Lymari Nadal. The actress plays Denzel Washington’s moll in “American Gangster”, which we probably won’t watch because hello, we’re Latino and our gangster hearts belong to “Scarface” like...

It warmed the cockles of the place where our hearts should be to see this pic of Marcelo Cunning and Amylu Meneses of Nacotheque snuggled up on the couch next to Circo lead singer Fofé and shooting the shit...

Some time ago, we were severely chastised over our lack of familiarity with a certain Latino slang word. A quick poll around the office revealed that almost none of us had ever heard of it. Which made us wonder...

If you were to look up ‘bitter irony’ in the encyclopedia, you’d find this guy’s well-known mug staring back at you. Tego Calderón, the reggaetón equivalent of Snoop Dogg since landing at least one movie role we know of,...

TV programming may have seen a number of things today, but nothing like the over-hyped debut of Whoopi Goldberg on “The View.” She got off to a rollicking start as the sedated yang to Rosie O’Donnell’s loudmouthed ying, namely...

Residente, the MC of hugely popular Puerto Rican hip-hop duo Calle 13, hit the streets of his native island today to hand out free copies of his latest single, “Tribute to the Police.” The song is anything but—it verbally...

During a press conference in Puerto Rico yesterday, Ricky Martin told the Associated Press that he wants to adopt a kid within the year and maybe eventually adopt one from each continent. But what interests us is the way...

• Ricky Martin refuses to shoot his upcoming concert DVD anywhere but Puerto Rico. Was Fire Island booked up? [Latin Gossip] • State lawmakers enact “an unprecedented surge” of immigration reform after federal ones botched it so badly. “Throw...

We stumbled across this doctored image today, and couldn’t help but dream up an alternate history for the pictured couple. One where neither J. Lo nor Marc Anthony signed the pact with the devil that launched them from the...

Nothing is more thrilling to us than getting an unhappy email or comment from one of our new readers. It’s basically why we took this job. What’s especially fun about a letter we got on Saturday is that the...