Speedy Gonzales rival became Daffy Duck. Feeling that the character presented an offensive Mexican stereotype, Cartoon Network shelved Speedy's films when it gained exclusive rights to broadcast them in 1999 (as a subsidiary of Time Warner, Cartoon Network is a corporate sibling to Warner Bros.). In an interview with Fox News on March 28, 2002, Cartoon Network spokeswoman Laurie Goldberg commented, "It hasn't been on the air for years because of its ethnic stereotypes." Despite such controversy over potentially offensive characterizations, Speedy Gonzales remained a popular character in Latin America. The Hispanic-American rights organization League of United Latin American Citizens called Speedy
Mexican volcano mouse Mexican volcano mouse The Mexican volcano mouse ("Neotomodon alstoni") is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae endemic to high elevation areas of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. Merriam originally described the Mexican volcano mouse as one of three species in the genus "Neotomodon"; "N. alstoni" was moved to the deer mouse genus "Peromyscus" in 1979, then subsequently moved back to "Neotomodon". Merriam does not state after whom the species is named in his original description for the genus (and species). Despite the current taxonomy, a recent phylogeny based on cytochrome-b sequences shows "Peromyscus" to be polyphyletic, and the authors