Mas…Classic La Cucaracha: How to spot a Mexican dad (1992 toon)
Should Puerto Rico become our 51st state? Al Madrigal reports (video)
The Daily Show’s Senior Latino Correspondent Al Madrigal goes to Washington, D.C. to meet with demonstrators who want Puerto Rico to become America’s 51st state. [Disclaimer: Al is POCHO’s Migrant Editor.]
Pocho Ocho ways to deal with a boss who is ‘all hands’
Women’s History Month is a good time to spotlight sexual harassment at work.
Congress has reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act, sure, but legal action isn’t always an option, like when you’re on a business trip with the boss, or in his office for a late-night meeting.
Here are the pocho ocho ways to fend off a boss who is all hands:
8. In your best Latina voice, scream “¡No, patron, por favor, no!”
7. He’s grabby? Grab back…and squeeeeeeeze!
6. Just go with it — you’re already asking for it with that blouse!
Poncho’s Argentine new wave synthpop: ‘Take My Hand’ (video)
Buenos Aires band Poncho takes 80s-era synthpop in a new goth Futurama direction with the surrealistic video Take My Hand. [Zombies, gore, escary clowns!]
PNS*Hot*Flash: ‘Jugo Chavez Energy Drink’ cancelled
BREAKING ÑEWS: (PNS reporting from CARACAS) The death of Commandante El Presidente Hugo Chavez means the Bolivarian Bottling Company has had to cancel plans to produce Jugo Chavez Energy Drink for export to the United Estates, PNS has learned.
The state-owned firm hoped to export the beverage to the U.S. where MEChA chapters, like cookie-selling Girl Scouts, would set up tables selling cans outside student union buildings.
Bro Angeles asks ‘Hey, do you know that Hollywood taco truck?’ (video)
Bro Angeles wants to know: Hey, do you know that good taco truck in Hollywood? The one near the Starbuck’s? Video by Jeremiah Murphy.
Inca round-up of vicuña to gather ‘The Gold of the Andes’ (video)
In the high desert of the Peruvian Andes, the descendants of the Inca form a human chain to perform the Chaccu, the ritual round-up and shearing of the wild vicuña.
Pocho Ocho probable ways the CIA gave Hugo Chavez cancer
Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro (he may be the new president by the time you read this) has accused the United Estates of poisoning dead Hugo Chavez with special commie-killing cancer.
We talked to our sources in the intelligence community to compile the pocho ocho most likely ways the U.S. could have given Commissar Chavez the deadly disease:
8. Horsemeat — it’s what’s for dinner
7. Pinche high-fructose corn syrup
6. GMO salmon
Mas…Pocho Ocho probable ways the CIA gave Hugo Chavez cancer
Chilanga DREAMer Aury Martinez is all ‘Si Se Puede!’ (NSFW video)
President Obama’s “deferred action” program is working out really well for DREAMer Aury Martinez. (NSFW audio.)
Pocho Ocho absolutely worst things to do with a Taco Bell burrito
Eric Brown, 36, of Pt. Lucie, FL, is awaiting an arraignment for “assault” because he allegedly threw a Taco Bell burrito in his 16-year-old brother-in-law’s face.
Just so you don’t run afoul of the Law of Burritos, make note of the pocho ocho things you should never EVER do with a Taco Bell burrito:
8. Smoosh it in a 16-year-old’s face
7. Use it as a suppository
6. Mix with papier mache to make a piñata
Mas…Pocho Ocho absolutely worst things to do with a Taco Bell burrito
Measure twice, hammer thrice: buffoon114 gets his hand nailed (video)
If you need to get the webbed skin between your thumb and index finger nailed to a wood plank in the backyard, make sure you do it like YouTube user buffoon114; call a professional with the proper tools, safety gear and mad carpentry skillz. (NSFW audio.)
Laurel and Hardy (El Gordo y El Flaco) ‘Oye Como Va’ (video)
Amazing dancers, these two old gabachos. And who is that playing the music?
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Elise Roedenbeck’s ‘MiJA Weekly’ breaks the ñews 03.04.13 (video)
Hey there, Pochos! This week on MiJA I totally don’t pole dance, Obama isn’t a dork, and the Gang of Eight don’t mix well with vinegar. Also, Kim Jung Un has one black friend.
Don’t make me unleash my powers of brujería! Leave your comments and questions below.
‘Chicken ‘N Waffles’ flavored syrup for coffee is racist, critics say
(PNS reporting from ATLANTA) After narrowly beating “Flamin’ Hot Cheetos,” “Kool Super Longs” and “40-Ounce Malt Liquor” to become the syrup flavor that “most accurately captures the taste of the African-American experience,” the winner, Chicken ‘N Waffles syrup, has been put into production by syrup giant Torani.
The family-owned company, known for sweet coffee additives like vanilla and chocolate syrups, is convinced white Americans will crave “the special tang this sweet ‘n’ sassy syrup adds” to the four-dollar lattes they consume several times a day.
Torani’s move is “baffling” and “an outrage,” Clarence K. Dabra, president of the Atlanta-based American Black Restauranteurs Association (ABRA) told PNS.
Mas…‘Chicken ‘N Waffles’ flavored syrup for coffee is racist, critics say
PNS*Hot*Flash: Sick Queen Elizabeth says horsemeat is fine
(PNS reporting from LONDON) Queen Elizabeth II of England — depite being briefly hospitalized with a stomach infection — has endorsed the stampede of European carnivores who say horsemeat in your beefburger is no big deal.
Joining the German cabinet minister who advocated giving horsemeat-tainted products to poor people and the Huffington Post’s LatinoVoices, which published a Cuban horsemeat recipe, the 86-year-old Queen put her stamp of approval on the new “austerity” regime:
Mas…PNS*Hot*Flash: Sick Queen Elizabeth says horsemeat is fine
Is the Vatican covering up space alien visitations? (video)
Pope Benedict XVI may have left the building, but investigators claim something is still rotten in Vatican City. They say the Roman Catholic Church is hiding evidence of extraterrestrial visitors — evidence that includes the remains of a dead ET buried beneath the Vatican.
PNS*Hot*Flash: Sequestration Proclamation frees the ‘Pedroes’
(PNS reporting from WASHINGTON, DC) President Barack Obama today issued a “Sequestration Proclamation,” which authorizes the freeing of an additional 300 undocumented immigrants from detention centers around the country in advance of looming budget cuts.
While Republicans claimed the freeing of these so-called “Pedroes” would lead to the total collapse of the U.S. economy, the only immediate impact has been the creation of 900 new jobs.
Obama is being hailed as “The Great Sequestrator” by Latinos around the country, and Obama-themed corridos are already staples on Mexican radio.
Mas…PNS*Hot*Flash: Sequestration Proclamation frees the ‘Pedroes’
Sequester-released immigrants head to D.C. to fix the budget
(PNS reporting from WASHINGTON, D.C.) Scores of immigrants released due to sequester-forced budget cuts are headed to the nation’s capital to fill gaps in the labor pool, PNS has learned.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began releasing low priority immigrants from detention centers in New Jersey, Louisiana, California, Texas and Florida earlier this week.
After the immigrants were released, PNS got reports that congressional staffers were driving past detention centers trying to pick up the immigrants for jobs in Washington.
“Immigrants are, once again, doing the job that no one else can do: balancing the budget,” said Manuel Padilla, who was released from a detention center in New Jersey Monday. “About 40 of us came from Jersey, in the back of three pickups!”
Mas…Sequester-released immigrants head to D.C. to fix the budget
King Africa is totally ‘La Bomba’ circa 2000 (video + lyrics)
Is this an original video from when King Africa‘s La Bomba was a big hit in 2000? We don’t know, but this video showed up on YouTube Thursday evening and we had to share. If this doesn’t make you at least chair dance, call a doctor!
And we’ve got lyrics!
Mas…King Africa is totally ‘La Bomba’ circa 2000 (video + lyrics)
Fresh off the Photoshop: ‘Girl with a parole hearing’ (toon)
Does this prison outfit make my butt look fat? [Illustration by jimwich]
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Mas…Fresh off the Photoshop: ‘Girl with a parole hearing’ (toon)
HipHopAlkatraz and Midget Loco: ‘Me-xicano’ (NSFW music video)
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. HipHopAlkatraz and Midget Loco are proud to say Me Xicano. (NSFW language.)
Pocho Ocho Latinos who confuse white peeps (we all look the same!)
People are often confused by different Latinos — it’s hard to tell us apart if we all look the same, right?
Here’s a quick roundup of the top eight folks who get mistaken for each other. Let us know if we missed any in the comments!
8. Pocho superstars Gustavo Arellano and Lalo Alcaraz
7. Pitbull the dog and Pitbull the singer
6. Airplane buddies Edward James Olmos and Jan Brewer
Mas…Pocho Ocho Latinos who confuse white peeps (we all look the same!)
PNS*Hot*Flash: Sheriff Joe has fallen and he can’t get up
(PNS reporting from PHOENIX) Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has fallen and he can’t get up. The 80-year old remains in St. Joseph’s Hospital after falling and breaking his left shoulder on the way to lunch.
Doctors say they can fix him up better than ever:
Joe Arpaio, racist cop. A man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world’s first bionic bigot. Joe Arpaio will be that man. More racist than he was before. Hateful, senile, old.
Mas…PNS*Hot*Flash: Sheriff Joe has fallen and he can’t get up
The Lowrider Band: Jam for the ‘9 to 5 (Ordinary Man)’ (video)
The surviving guys (minus one) of the band formerly known as WAR (East Los favorites) are now the Lowrider Band. This just-released video is their OG salute to the ordinary man who works hard all day at a job he hates so he can take care of his family.
‘I have a bad case of diarrhea’ the Japanese disco remix (video)
When you have to go, you have to go. Let’s dance!
Pope to ditch red slippers on retirement, switch to botas picudas


(PNS reporting from VATICAN CITY) Retiring Pope Benedict XVI is ditching the traditional red slippers (he wears size VIII) when he leaves the papacy and is switching to pointy boots (botas picudas) he got in Mexico, according to news reports.
Chicago’s La Raza (via Google Translate) has the story:
Pope loves shoes that gave her artisans in Mexico in March 2012 during his apostolic visit to the State of Guanajuato and considers them so comfortable that continue to use even after his resignation.
During a press conference the spokesman of the headquarters of the Catholic Church, Federico Lombardi, confirmed that from next Thursday, February 28 at 20:00 local time (19:00 GMT), the pontiff will no longer use the traditional colored shoes Red.
Mas…Pope to ditch red slippers on retirement, switch to botas picudas
PNS*Hot*Flash: White House plans new Civil Rights push
(PNS reporting from WASHINGTON, D.C.) President Barack Obama will mark the final day of Black History Month by proposing new civil rights legislation, PNS has learned.
Obama will announce the No, White Girl, You Cannot Touch My Hair Act in a speech in Oklahoma City on Thursday.
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Pocho Palabra: So you think you have balls, w/ @SaraChicaD (video)
It’s a fine line between drawers and testicles, as POCHO Subcommandanta del Ñews Sara Inés Calderón explains in this one-minute video. She’s @SaraChicaD on Twitter.
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