{"id":669431,"date":"2026-09-16T15:56:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T15:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=669431"},"modified":"2026-09-16T15:56:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T15:56:06","slug":"smithsonian-finds-a-new-home-for-latino-museum-critics-say-its-an-end-run-around-congress-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=669431","title":{"rendered":"Smithsonian finds a new home for Latino museum \u2014 critics say it\u2019s an end-run around Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A decision by the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s Board of Regents to designate its Arts and Industries Building the new permanent home of the\u00a0National Museum of the American Latino is drawing controversy.<\/p>\n

The Board made this move to avoid seeking the congressional approval \u2014 and specifically the congressional FIGHT \u2014 that building a new facility would have required, according to Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Why a fight? Because many on the right oppose the very existence of the National Museum of the American Latino and other similar exhibits\/museums because of their rabid wokeness.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to get rid of the Latino museum. It needs to be de-authorized. It should not exist,\u201d Heritage Foundation senior fellow Mike Gonzalez bluntly told Fox News.<\/p>\n

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Heritage Foundation scholar Mike Gonzalez is calling for the Smithsonian\u2019s National Museum of the American Latino to be completely de-authorized \u2014 arguing its inaugural exhibition was an \u201cincubator of grievances\u201d laced with Marxist messaging rather than a genuine celebration of\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/MrrM2hibTy<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) September 15, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Gonzalez also called for firing the\u00a0Smithsonian\u2019s insanely woke leadership.<\/p>\n

As just one example out of many of the Smithsonian\u2019s sins, Gonzalez pointed to the museum\u2019s 2022 inaugural exhibition, \u201c\u00a1Presente! A Latino History of the United States.\u201d He noted that the exhibition contained an ani-Western, anti-American worldview.<\/p>\n

For instance, the exhibit said \u201cwe didn\u2019t cross the border, the border crossed us\u201d as a defense of illegal migration. The exhibit also contained panels on Cuban American drag performer and gay-rights activist Jos\u00e9 Julio Sarria, and panels on a goon who worked for former Chilean socialist President Salvador Allende.<\/p>\n

Gonzalez also pointed to a Heritage Foundation report he filed last year in which he\u2019d noted that the museum\u2019s exhibits portray Latino people as victims of alleged American oppression.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis means that [if the museum is approved,] American taxpayers will be asked to fork over money for a project that will, by design, denigrate their country and promote separation,\u201d he wrote. \u201cWhat examples we have seen of the museum\u2019s offerings amply demonstrate that this will be the case\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Smithsonian Latino museum enshrines the balkanizing views & dreams of the radical groups most hostile to American unity. Despite this, members of the Appropriations Committees of both houses of Congress & both parties voted to fund it.@Gundisalvus<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/7s8g8gd9BB<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) September 19, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Testifying before the House Oversight Committee in July, weeks before the\u00a0 Board made its decision, Gonzalez outright called for both the Latino museum and the American Women\u2019s History Museum\u00a0to be \u201cde-authorized\u201d before they became official.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese two museums can never be built,\u201d he insisted<\/a>. \u201cThey have demonstrated, through their forerunning exhibitions, that they will be nothing more than incubators of grievances against the United States. De-authorize them and stop funding them. Only a foolish people will pay $1.1 billion for their own cultural erasure. The American people are not a foolish people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gonzalez appears to have all the right in the world to be critical of the museums: \u201c[H]is father was imprisoned by Cuba\u2019s former \u2018tin-pot dictator\u2019 Fulgencio Batista before the leader was overthrown by Fidel Castro in 1959,\u201d according to Fox News.<\/p>\n

His criticisms of the Smithsonian echo the criticism of many others, including Cully Stimson, who\u2019s also with the Heritage Foundation. Speaking with Fox News last month, he argued<\/a> that the modern Smithsonian is pushing a negative, \u201cself-loathing\u201d portrayal of America\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think this is part of a broader effort by radicals on the left to redefine the history of the United States and reframe it in an oppressor-versus-oppressed narrative,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead of looking at American history chronologically with all the triumphs and tragedies, including slavery, and then the things that our country did to eradicate the vestiges of slavery, and then passing the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments and the Civil Rights Acts and getting rid of various other laws that were discriminatory in practice or in spirit, they take a very pro-reparations, \u2018we\u2019re a bad country,\u2019 oppressor-versus-oppressed narrative,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

His remarks came after the Trump administration\u2019s Domestic Policy Council published a bombshell report accusing the Smithsonian of not being interested in presenting American history but rather twisting it \u201cto advance ideas of social justice and the radical transformation of our society.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A decision by the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s Board of Regents to designate its Arts and Industries Building the new permanent home of the\u00a0National Museum of the American Latino is drawing controversy. The Board made this move to avoid seeking the congressional approval \u2014 and specifically the congressional FIGHT \u2014 that building a new facility would have… Continue reading Smithsonian finds a new home for Latino museum \u2014 critics say it\u2019s an end-run around Congress<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":669411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=669431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/669411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=669431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=669431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=669431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}