Latino Journalists at the L.A. Times Pen Open Letter for Better Newsroom Representation

For much of its history, the Los Angeles Times has covered the Latino community in dehumanizing ways, painting us as criminals or victims or simply ignoring us.

The Times slurred Mexicans as “greasers” and “wetbacks” and immigrants without legal status as “border jumpers” and “illegal aliens.” It advocated for the invasion of Latin American countries, and vilified Central Americans as they sought refuge in Los Angeles during the exodus of the 1980s.

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