About 100,000 people are expected to participate in a march in San Juan and protest at the giant Plaza las Americas shopping mall. The shopping center, the largest in all the Caribbean, is closing for the day in anticipation of the protests.
15 October 2009
Island-Wide Union-Led Protests In Puerto Rico Shuts Down Plaza Las Americas
By Alex Alvarez at 11:19 AM.
9 October 2009
Gloria Estefan Performs Free Concert In Puerto Rico For The Unemployed
By Alex Alvarez at 1:45 PM.
Gloria Estefan, who is probably rich enough to buy the moon, is giving something back to the people of Puerto Rico.
29 September 2009
Recession Woes Bring U.S. Prostitutes And Older Housewives To Tijuana’s Red Light District
By Alex Alvarez at 2:26 PM.
More and more U.S. sex workers are heading south of the border (you shut up) in order to seek work in a safer, regulated and potentially more lucrative environment than on U.S. streets.
20 August 2009
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15 May 2009
Less Mexicans Are Emigrating To The U.S. Due To Recession
By Alex Alvarez at 11:23 AM.
According to Mexican census data gathered by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography, about 226,000 fewer Mexicans are emigrating (legally and otherwise) to other countries. And if you’re wondering why random American troll people think they move here in the first place, you’re in luck.
8 May 2009
Mars’ “Real Chocolate Relief Act” Prompts Us To Come Up With Ways To Cheer Latinos Up During Tough Times
By Alex Alvarez at 11:41 AM.
Mars chocolate company is giving away free sweets as part of its “Real Chocolate Relief Act” - a campaign aimed at lifting spirits during a time when the economy sucks harder than cousin Letty at your quinces party. But what more, Latino-specific things can be done during these times to try and help lift the spirits of a group whose been hit particularly hard by the recession?
22 April 2009
Japan Pays Latin American Workers To Go Away Forever
By Alex Alvarez at 5:20 PM.
Japan is paying the country’s Latin American workers to leave and never return. They, you see, have had quite enough of this whole “multi-ethnic” business.
9 April 2009
Recession Trends: Woman Calls 911 For Lack Of Shrimp In Fried Rice
By Cindy Casares at 12:50 PM.
This 911 audio of a Texas woman asking the cops to come to a restaurant because they didn’t give her extra shrimp is a sign of the times. Add it to the 911 Chicken McNuggets call and the 911 Burger King call and it’s not doubt people are freaking out about the value of their [...]
3 April 2009
Robert Daniel Webb Commits Armed Robbery With 9 Year-Old Daughter In Tow
By Cindy Casares at 10:30 AM.
Forty-two year-old, recently unemployed optician Robert Daniel Webb walked into a convenience store in Ellensburg, Washington at 3AM on Tuesday and held up the cashier at gunpoint with his nine year-old daughter by his side. The whole thing was caught on security camera video.
23 March 2009
Punch Drunk Obama Tells 60 Minutes, “The Least Of Our Problems Is Iraq. LOL!”
By Cindy Casares at 12:45 PM.
Last night Barack Obama appeared on 60 Minutes to talk with Steve Kroft about how he’s handling the pressures of the new job. But when the subject of the fucked up auto industry sent him into a giggle fit, Kroft wondered aloud if the President was punch drunk.
14 March 2009
Hefenomics: When Times Get Tough, Hefner Sells The Wife’s Mansion
By Cindy Casares at 1:51 PM.
When you’re a rich womanizer in this economy, what else would you do but sell your estranged wife’s mansion instead of your own? That’s what Hugh Hefner’s doing, announcing this week that he’s selling Holmby Hills, the adjacent property where his wife–yes, wife– Kimberly and their two teenage sons have lived since the late 1990s.
11 March 2009
Miami Herald Cutting 175 Jobs: Who Will Provide Weird Florida News?
By Cindy Casares at 3:51 PM.
Lest you get to feeling too optimistic with dreams of retiring to Mexico or obtaining a motel home in Orange County, Miami Herald publisher David Landsberg announced today the paper is cutting 19% of its workforce which amounts to “about 175 workers” from “all areas of our operation and at every level in the organization.”
Unemployed Americans Living In Motels
By Cindy Casares at 12:38 PM.
A growing group of Americans are being forced to live in motels with their families. With the crumbling economy affecting working class folks previously employed in service and retail, one look at the immigration trends of the last twenty years will show you that many of these motel families are going to be Latino.
4 March 2009
Recession Hurting Latinos More Than Any Other Ethnic Group. But We Have A Plan!
By Alex Alvarez at 6:00 PM.
Hi Latinos! Guess what? Not only are we all going to die of diabetes, we’re also all going to be unemployed! Guess our plan of stealing gringos’ jobs from right under their noses isn’t working as well as we’d all planned.
One year ago, Latinos held more jobs than did non-Latinos in the United States. We’ve [...]
