It’s always kind of fun to see how non-Latinos view us and there’s really no better time for it than Halloween - the only time of the year where one can dress in brownface or like a geisha or...

Laura Martinez is a journalist. Probably a real one and not a blogger. She, like us, gets her fair share of press releases and was recently very confused by a pitch from Procter & Gamble - the company that...

Hey! What is that hot tamale Salma Hayek been up to lately? Why, continuing to make more money than you by producing shows that you will hopefully relate to, of course! Her latest project is “The New McToms,” a...

Two GOP officials have resigned over some racially problematic comments. Fernando de Baca, chairman of the Republican Party in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, has resigned over several comments he made to BBC regarding what he perceived as Latino voters’...

Happy National Tortilla Month! Isn’t it funny that this joyous and time-honored event happens to coincide with Hispanic Heritage Month? It makes us want to run past teen mothers sitting on a stoop, over fields ripe with fruit for...

Because, you know, what else is Hispanic Heritage Month for if not to celebrate Latinos who sell things to other Latinos?, People en Español has compiled their list of the “15 Most Influential Latinos” and, surprise!, most of them...

Excited about mutilated chihuahuas? Then you probably can’t wait for this year’s most obvious attempt at Oscar-baiting, Beverly Hills Chihuahua. Some critics saw it! And reviewed it! And didn’t immediately explode into a thousand little pieces: Beverly Hills Chihuahua...

The desire to telegraph a great deal about a character in a short amount of time can leave a writer open to using cultural stereotypes. It’s human and we all do it. But so is shitting our pants when...

Being fit is really important, we hear. So we guess it’s a good thing that Barbara Trujillo Gomez has created a fitness guide for Latinas. God knows our fitness needs differ from those of other women. But we could...

Like dancing? And stars? Us either, really. But apparently the “Dancing with the Stars” brand is so popular that it has made its way to Argentina. And because Argentina is full of Latinos, and Latinos are inherently sexy, their...

Latinos! Ever felt lost? Unsure of who you are and what it is you’re supposed to be doing? While grab a Dominican flag and your rosary, because, luckily, Barack Obama and John McCain’s camps are more than willing to...

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...

Warning: Watching the above clip from “Viva Hollywood” made us hit ourselves in the face repeatedly with the remote control and then set our roommate on fire using only Kahlúa and a bong. You may want to watch with...

A Huntington Beach waitress shared this picture with the internet. It’s a list of seating guidelines at a Mexican restaurant where she works. We didn’t know Mexicans prefer booths more than other people. Or that impatience is our cultural...

Hey Latinas, are you an unwed mother? Did you get that way by buying shoddy birth control at the flea market? According to this morning’s Economist, you are not alone. “The vaunted Latino family,” it says, “is coming to...

Barack Obama’s campaign has a new series of Spanish-language ads that will debut on Texas radio stations and highlight how Obama is poor! And hardworking! Just like Latinos: The theme of the ad is that Obama is speaking to...

In Latin America homosexuals are still considered the unfortunate other. Even progressive homochummy Latinos are sometimes clueless as to how to deal with their gay friends. An issue that sometimes reflects this country’s prevailing attitudes towards Latinos in general....

Some lovely and talented dude named Rio Yañez out there in Internetlandia wrote a thoughtful and thought-provoking piece asking, “What would Juno be like with a Latina lead?:” For my part, maybe I would have too much baggage as...

Good-intentioned political organization Declare Yourself wants to encourage young people to register to vote in the upcoming primaries and presidential election. According to their flacks, they want to use the internets to recruit the young, indifferent masses: “Using […]...

Univision’s latest series is “Amas de Casa Desesperadas,” which is like the U.S. shit hit series “Desperate Housewives,” except lots more stereotypey: Univision worked with Disney’s Buena Vista TV in producing “Amas,” which follows the original show in its...

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...

Apparently, people don’t like seeing their race or ethnic group caricatured in ads. Those people are so touchy: A new study from OMD Worldwide found that ethnic groups are turned off by ads that rely on stereotypes and caricatures...

In Latin America homosexuals are still considered the unfortunate other. Even progressive homochummy Latinos are sometimes clueless as to how to deal with their gay friends. An issue that sometimes reflects this country’s prevailing attitudes towards Latinos in general....

While perusing a Jezebel post about drag kings, we came across a comment that caught our eye: BY EMARTINEZ.ROMERO AT 10:40 AM @jessicarabbit: Absolutely. I love this little story: If you want to dance with/around hispanic people, pretend that...

We learn everything we’ve ever learned about anything, ever, from TV and music videos. With that in mind, we’d like to use the knowledge we’ve gathered from being raised by an electronic babysitter to make a list of the...

The Ottawa Citizen wrote a story today about the demise of a tradition that’s as Mexican as Nopal Pie: The Liquid Lunch. Reporting from Mexico City, Catherine Bremer opens the article with this zinger: The long Mexican business lunch,...

The Charlotte Observer today published an “article” that reports how Latinos are stepping out of their bamboo huts and using computers to, like, email and stuff. The article is exploding with unheard of revelations about Latinos and technology, while...

It’s Friday and we’re only a couple of hours away from imbibing ourselves into a Spanish Harlem stupor. So, how about a nice game of Mexican Hat Catch to help us pass the time before we can spike our...

Beloved coffee pimp Juan Valdez has been rebranded as a younger, slimmer, and more environmentally conscious symbol. According to Treehugger, the Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia say “the new Juan Valdez was designed to embody values of enviromentally-friendly...

Are you unsure about what to get us for Christmas/Kwanzaa/Chakakhan? Do you have people of the brown persuasion on your Christmas list? Did you get stuck with Fernando the janitor for your secret santa? Worry not! Let Guanabee help...

The Mr. Gay competition (yes, there is such a thing), will take place in January of next year in Hollywood. The Mr. Gay Competition web site states: We believe that “Gay is not a stereotype” and our mission is...

Remember the “Chandler Rapist?” Of course you do. Well, Mayra Nieves, VP of programming for New Radio Venture in Arizona, appeared on Fox’s “Hannity and Colmes” to discuss the futility of using the term “Hispanic” in trying to identify...

For the third consecutive Saturday, residents in Manhattan’s Upper East Side were awakened by Black and Latino protesters outside Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman’s E.65th street mansion: The group, which calls itself the Campaign for Corporate Responsibility in Entertainment, wants...

Nintendo DS, the popular portable gaming console, has an edutainment game title called “Spanish for Everyone” that tries to teach little kids valuable Spanish lessons. The problem is, the “lessons” are part of a plot that portrays Mexicans as...

Compounding on Microsoft’s Zune MP3 player’s “hip” factor, the company decided to release a “Limited-Edition” version pre-loaded with reggaeton. According to CNN: “The black, limited-edition Zune will come pre-loaded with the new Wisin y Yandel album, “Wisin vs. Yandel:...

Turns out JLo is not the only one going Mordor on your ass. There is buzz around the Interwebs about how Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s novel Love in the Time of Cholera is expected to convert the city of Cartagena,...

Listen up, reddish-brown Indians! Time for a history lesson. Have you ever wondered who Christopher Columbus was? Or wondered why he landed 6,000 miles away from his intended destination? Or why he slept with the queen to secure financing?...

In addition to dressing our pets, enjoying tequila-laced pumpkin latte eye-openers, and bingeing and vomiting candy corn, we are looking forward to dressing up for Halloween and scaring the shit out of little kids. So, we found the most...

We’re sure those of you with children in your lives (our condolences) are well acquainted with “Handy Manny”, but we just got wind of him the natural way—via a publicist. And we have one thing to say about this...

Fruit magnate Chiquita has been fined $25 million for once paying millions of dollars to a Colombian terrorist organization. Chiquita used to pay off Colombian terrorists in exchange for protection of their most profitable banana-growing operations. Portfolio reports: Between...

So we finally sat down last night to watch the premiere episode of CBS’s “Cane,” but rather than do a traditional review, let’s play a game. We’ll use “Where’s Waldo” as inspiration, but instead of finding a striped-shirt wearing...

Wal-Mart is going all out for Latino Heritage month. In addition to in-store events and a special product section where consumers can purchase an exclusive Gloria Estefan CD/DVD package (!) the section also boasts: [H]ealth and beauty, home, and...

A recent article on Reuters Life! [Ed. Note: Excessive use of exclamation points— tsk, tsk] says Mexicans are stereotyped in America. With an opener that obvious, it wasn’t too surprising to discover that the entire article is shilling a...