Fidel Martinez

3 weeks ago | latimes.com | Fidel Martinez

I still remember exactly where I was when I found out that Selena Quintanilla-Pérez had been murdered. I was 9, a fourth-grader in south Texas, sitting at the back of the bus with my friends after school had let out that day. As we waited for the driver to take off, a chorus of whispers in the front quickly became a cacophony of denial, despair and laughter by the time word got to us — that Selena had been shot and killed at a Days Inn motel room in Corpus Christi, Texas.

1 month ago | latimes.com | Fidel Martinez

In this photo provided by El Salvador’s presidential press office, a prison guard transfers deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 16. Immigration officials transported 238 Venezuelan men from the United States to a notorious maximum security prison in El Salvador over the weekend, despite a court order from a federal judge prohibiting the government from carrying out the expulsions.

1 month ago | latimes.com | Fidel Martinez

It was a highly stylized photo of that caught my attention. I was mindlessly scrolling through Instagram at some point last fall when I came across the image — the is looking into the camera, the whites of his eyes obscured by the shadow cast by a mop of curly hair; he is donning a lilac traje de luces while holding a laser blaster. With my curiosity piqued, I clicked on the post to learn more.

1 month ago | latimes.com | Fidel Martinez

The De Los Showcase at SXSW. Clockwise from the top: Sultanes del Yonke, Edgar Alejandro, Francisco “Shrek” Rodriguez of Arsenal Efectivo, Conjunto Rienda Real, Midnight Navy and Bolo. In 2024, De Los, the Latino-centric vertical of the Los Angeles Times, hosted an official showcase at the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas, a multiday event that turns every nook and cranny in downtown into a makeshift stage.

1 month ago | thederrick.com | Fidel Martinez

LOS ANGELES — A few weeks ago, I got an email from Los Tigres del Norte’s publicist informing me that the legendary band would be in Los Angeles to promote the release of “La Lotería”— a sociopolitical corrido that uses the imagery of the popular bingo-like Mexican game to comment on topics like immigration and the past criminality of our current president — and its upcoming tour across the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic He asked if I had any interest...