#jorge ramos

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Edward Segarra at USA Today:

Univision news anchor Jorge Ramos, best known as a longtime co-host of "Noticiero Univision," is leaving the network after a 40-year tenure. Ramos and Univision’s parent company TelevisaUnivision announced the newscaster’s exit, set for after the 2024 U.S. presidential election, in a press release Monday. "This is not a farewell. I will continue anchoring 'Noticiero Univision' until December, and afterwards I will share my professional plan," Ramos, 66, said in a statement. "I am deeply grateful for these four decades at Univision and very proud to be part of a team that has established strong leadership over the years." While Ramos did not disclose the reason for his exit, the TV journalist and Univision "mutually agreed" to not renew his contract.

[...] Known as the "Walter Cronkite of Latin America," Ramos joined "Noticiero Univision" in 1986, hosting the program alongside news anchor María Elena Salinas until her departure in 2017. The Emmy-winning journalist is also host of Univision’s public affairs series "Al Punto." Ramos' exit marks the second major departure for Univision in the last year. León Krauze, who co-anchored "Noticiero Univision Edición Nocturna," left the news organization in November 2023.

Jorge Ramos is leaving Univision after 40 years, effective following the 2024 elections.

Ramos is effectively the Spanish-language Walter Cronkite.

[theperezhilton]

Jorge Ramos se va! Anuncia… https://www.tiktok.com/@perezhilton2025/video/7412841269296205086

[tomorrowusa]

« We cannot normalize behavior that threatens democracy and the Hispanic community, or offer Trump an open microphone to broadcast his falsehoods and conspiracy theories. We must question and fact-check everything he says and does.

That’s why it is very dangerous to fail to confront Trump. And that’s why it is our moral obligation to confront him every time there’s a journalistic opportunity to do it. »

— Journalist Jorge Ramos Avalos writing at his blog Politics, U.S.A..

Too many news outlets have been normalizing Trump's lies, Nazi rantings, and general craziness. And it's not just Fox News and the far right MAGAsphere that does this.

While it was the infamous Univision interview featuring softball questions and numerous edits which sparked the article by Mr. Ramos, it's certainly not the only instance in the media of trying to normalize Trump's abhorrent behavior.

If you see mainstream news outlets treating Trump's anti-democracy rantings as just Donald being Donald, get in touch with them and call them out. It's easy for them to ignore or delete emails and online comments; so old school methods like voice phone calls or physical letters to the editor or news director may be harder for them to disregard.

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Thank you, Jorge Ramos for this excellent interview! This is the difference when a real journalist conducts an interview.

Actor Pedro Pascal is one of the most famous and influential artists in Hollywood. He tells @jorgeramosnews how his family had to flee the dictatorship in Chile and how he achieved success in the US.

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¿Qué significa ser migrante en la era Trump? [testimonio de un migrante peruano]

Nunca he considerado que la palabra “migrante” sea mi tarjeta de presentación, aunque siempre me ha acompañado. Llegué a este país por primera vez cuando era un niño de 3 años, a mediados de la década de 1970, y mi familia se estableció en el norte de California, en una pequeña ciudad con árboles tan espesos que sus ramas se entremezclaban en lo alto de las carreteras. Mi madre nos presentaba por…

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Jorge Ramos anuncia que deja Univisión

La televisora estadounidense indicó que el comunicador mexicano formará parte de la compañía hasta luego de las elecciones de noviembre de 2024 en Estados Unidos Continue reading Jorge Ramos anuncia que deja Univisión

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Así se las gasta AMLO

View this post on Instagram A post shared by yo acuso (@yo_acuso) AMLO atacó en la mañanera a Jorge Ramos por este artículo de hace tres días. ​ ¿HASTA CUANDO? ¿Hasta cuándo un presidente debe tomar responsabilidad de lo que pasa en el país? ¿El primer día de su gobierno o el primer año? ¿A los dos años? Jorge Ramos Ávalos | No hay una regla para esto. Pero decir, como el presidente Andrés…

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Spawn #315 (Cover art by Stephen Jorge Segovia and Jay David Ramos)

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[tomorrowusa]

Spanish-language Univision is becoming more MAGA-friendly despite Donald Trump's histrionic talk of vermin, concentration camps, and how immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country".

The famous Trump Univision interview by Enrique Acevedo has some interesting backstory.

During the hour-long interview, Acevedo allowed the former president — who as recently as 2020 called Univision “a leftist propaganda machine” — to openly pander to Latinos' “entrepreneurial” spirit, and to threaten his political opponents by insinuating he would weaponize the Department of Justice against them if he is re-elected.  This interview adds to concerns that the Spanish-language news giant – which in 2016 cut business ties with Trump and his Miss USA beauty pageant after his racist remarks against Mexicans – is shifting its stance on the former president. The Washington Post reported that “Trump is treating Univision and its new corporate owners like long-lost friends. He hosted a trio of its executives at Mar-a-Lago last week during an hour-long Univision interview that was notable for its gracious tone.”  The report also indicated that TelevisaUnivision Mexico co-CEO Bernardo Gomez Martinez, who has a “long working relationship” with Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, was responsible for facilitating the sit-down. 

Yep, you may have thought Jared had moved on from his working relationship with El Douché but he's still pulling strings for Trump.

[I]n the days that followed Trump’s interview with Acevedo, some network pundits made the case that Trump has “softened” on immigration in an effort “to repair his relationship” with Latinos – flying in the face of the network’s own reporting about his explicitly stated policies and stance on the issue. In the days that followed Trump’s interview, Univision regional and national prime-time shows like Al Punto California, Noticiero Univision, and Linea de Fuego have hosted numerous conservative pundits, including former personalities from Americano Media — the Trump-aligned Spanish-language network that ran out of money earlier this year — to defend the former president and argue that he is aiming for “a change in strategy” on Latinos and immigration.

Either those Univision pundits are living in an alternative reality or word came down from the patrón to go easy on El Douché.

Of course Univision's blatant pandering to a virulent racist and hatemonger is not going unchallenged.

Latino backlash grows over Donald Trump’s friendly Univision interview

The nation’s largest Spanish-language media company, Univision, faced growing backlash Friday for its handling of a recent interview with former president Donald Trump, as major Latino advocacy groups delivered a letter of protest to the network’s executives and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus prepared to request a meeting with the network. Actor and comedian John Leguizamo, who recently took a turn as host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” also posted a video on Instagram on Thursday night calling for a boycott of the network until it stopped its rejection of Biden ads, some of which were canceled just before the Trump interview aired. “I am asking all my brothers and sisters who are actors, artists, politicians, activists to not go on Univision,” he said in a message in English and Spanish. [ ... ] Joaquin Blaya, a former president of Univision who created its signature news show in the late 1980s, told The Washington Post in an interview this week that he worried the network had moved away from its founding mission. [ ... ] The Mexican media company Grupo Televisa, which has long had a close relationship with political power brokers in that country, recently merged with the owners of Univision to take joint control of the company. “This was Mexican-style news coverage, a repudiation of the concept of separation of business and news,” Blaya said of the Trump interview. “What I saw there was batting practice, someone dropping balls for him to hit out of the park. I think it was an embarrassment.”

What Trump tells MAGA-friendly interviewers from Univision is not what he is telling everybody else. And that interview was heavily edited to make him seem less unpalatable to the audience.

This is the same Trump who called Mexicans "drug dealers", "criminals", and "rapists" and never apologized for his insults nor took them back.

The View conducted a good journalistic dissection of the way the Univision interview took place.

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Pedro interview with Jorge Ramos -“Pedro on his life before he was an actor”

Interview in Spanish

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Pixote: director Héctor Babenco presents an unrelenting portrait of cruelty & madness in the Brazilian juvenile reformatories as seen through the eyes of a 10 year old. Partially inspired by true events, this critically acclaimed docudrama is not for the faint of heart!

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Violetta S01E01 - S01E35

I started rewatching Violetta and Soy Luna again. It's crazy to think I was only 15 when I first watched Violetta, and it's been more than 10 years since then. I thought I would have the same experience watching it again, but I realized a few things while watching it with grown-up eyes. 

First, I'm going to talk about the plot a bit, and then about a few characters. This first post will only contain the first 35 episodes from the first season of Violetta 

The plot is still great; I like it. The only problem that I have is with the school, Studio. So we all know people like Leon, Camila, Maxi, and Ludmila have gone to the school for a while now; we don't have a certain time frame here. So how can Violetta and Tomas, two new students, join the same class they are in? How does it actually work? They also can compete to get the main role in the play they come up with, which also sounds a bit unlikely. Like, yeah, they are both extremely talented, but they nearly don't have as much experience as the others. What I also don't get is that Ludmila is clearly a diva and has behavioral problems, yet Antonio chooses her over Violetta. Yeah, I get that she is more experienced, but what did they expect? Then they lash out at her, basically being herself. 

Now let's talk about a few characters:

Violetta: I remember really loving her and relating to her when I was younger. She is still a lovely girl. I really like how she is trying to help everybody, and I truly think she is a selfless girl. She is a bit too naive, which can be annoying sometimes, but it has its own charm, and knowing her backstory, it is normal that she is that way.  While I don't like when people are lying, I can understand why she is afraid of telling anything to her dad. She is just trying to live her own life and do whatever makes her happy, and without lying to her dad, she wouldn't be able to do that; she wouldn't be able to live her life.  What made me really mad is how she treated this whole Leon and Tomas situation. I get that she is inexperienced and that later she started getting confused, but she was hurting both of them. It was really interesting to see the whole Tomletta and Leonetta thing unfold, because I saw it completely differently when I was younger. I never really liked Tomas and Violetta together; I don't think they had a solid foundation, and again, this constant "we almost got together, but we didn't" was extremely boring and annoying. I get that it was mostly because of Ludmila, but if they truly trusted each other, I think they could've "defeated" her. But I also don't think she was fair with Leon; he used him to make Tomas jealous; when she said to Tomas, they were together, but then a day later, she told Leon that she was confused. I get that she is; I get if she wants to be with Tomas, but using Leon to make him jealous or to foget Tomas is not fair. I know Leon had his own issues, which we are going to talk about later, but she was in the wrong as well.  All in all, I like her character; I get why she is the way she is, but I don't agree with those games with Tomas and Leon, even if it was unintentional. 

Tomas: I was never a big fan of him. I admit that I was always a Leon girl, but I think that he is a nice boy. He really tried his best, but he was way too easy to manipulate. He always thought people were better than they were actually, and most of them really misled him.  My biggest issue with him was how he handled most of his involvement with girls. I understood why he got mad at Violetta when he realized she was lying about her true identity. I also understood that he didn't want Violetta to suffer when he thought he was leaving, but he kind of dismissed Violetta's feelings and made a decision for her, which I hate. I don't like when people play the martyr. Even if he would've gone back, they could've given a chance for the relationship. They didn't even spend enough time to find out whether they would be a good couple or not. They could've gone on a few dates and seen whether it would work or not. I also hated how he handled the whole Ludmila thing. I get that he believed her a few times, but most of the time he failed to see through her. He rather believed Ludmila when the whole situation with his dad happened, based on what? He caught her lying so many times, yet he still rather believes her than Vilu. I'm not saying that the fact Vilu immediately "moved on" was okay, but she tried to pursue a relationship with him; she tried to convince him to give their relationship a chance, but he didn't want that, and then he gets angry at her because she is trying to move when he asked him to do the same. If he had told Ludmi at the very beginning that he doesn't want anything from her, maybe things would've been different. I'm not saying Ludmila wouldn't have been trying to win him over, but he could've stood his ground. I'd say the same thing about Francesca. Maxi told him that Fran likes him, yet he acted like he didn't know about it. You want Violetta, and only her? Then tell the others that you aren't interested in them. He truly gave mixed signals to both Ludmila and Fran.  All in all, he wasn't a bad character but he wasn't my favorit. I don't think he was that good of a guy most people like to portray him as.

Leon: As I said before, I always preferred him. I think he was really nice with Vilu; he was truly there for her. He really wanted to and tried to win her over. He didn't give up even when she chose Tomas, which could've come across a bit too much (it was sometimes; I will talk about it in a second), but I think Vilu also gave him a few signs she feels a bit more. It was just really sweet to see that he was really fighting for her, and how supportive he always was. 

But as I mentioned before, sometimes he was a bit too much. I get that he tried to come across as this self-confident dude, but him telling Violetta that he knows she's going to eventually choose him and how Tomas will always hurt him kind of gives me the ick. I still prefer him over Tomas, but he isn't perfect either. I also didn't really like the way he acted when he was with Ludmila, or when he agreed to participate in her idea of doing that video and uploading it. I liked how he tried to make it better and tell her that he wasn't participating and that he also tried to tell Vilu, but in the end neither of those things happened. I also felt bad for him a few times when Vilu told him she doesn't want to do anything with Tomas anymore, or when she said they are dating and then changed her mind a day later. I think neither of those boys deserved that. 

All in all, I still prefer him, and I think he is the person who changed a lot since the very beginning of the season (in a good person), but sometimes he was way too pushy, and way too much. 

Ludmila: I have to admit that she never was my favorite. I get that she wants to be the best; I get that she wants to get Tmas for herself, but she is taking it too far. 

Her hate toward Violetta is unhealthy, as is her obsession with Tomas. I get that she would do anything to achieve it, but still. Because of her, Vilu almost didn't get into the studio; she ruined Violetta and Tomas's first date. She is the reason people were bullying Violetta, and she even encouraged that behavior. Don't even mention how she treats Naty. She is a bad person, and I can't really say anything good about her; other than that, she is really pretty and talented, and I like a lot of the stuff she wears. 

Angie: I really like her as a character. She truly cares about Violetta, and she is always there for her. She is the reason why she got out of her room and started living her life. I however don't like that she is encouraging Violetta to lie to her father. Having said that, I know that's the only way she can do what makes her the happiest, and Angie just wants to be happy. I would also say that their relationship with Herman is a bit weird. I understand why they like each other, and I'm happy he is becoming a better person because of her. And I also know that Maria died a long time ago and that Angie was little when she last saw Herman, but it is still weird. Herman obviously doesn't know about the whole thing, so it's more about Angie than Herman. Besides everything, it is weird she is falling for him. 

Herman: He is a really complicated character. I get that he is trying his best and that he only wants to protect Violetta, but he's basically been controlling her life. She didn't have friends, never dated anyone, and never went to school. She basically has zero social life.  I truly think he thinks he is doing what's best for Violetta, which makes the whole thing even worse. I really like, however, that he is trying to be more open and let Violetta do some stuff outside of the house (thanks to Angie and sometimes Jade). I also don't like how he is always preaching about how lying is bad and that he hates when someone's lying to him, yet he has been doing the same since Violetta was little. Hypocrisy at its best. 

The other characters are okay; nothing too significant happened to them. I like how Fran was capable of letting the whole Tomas thing go and got to the point she was basically helping him and Violetta. Cami and Maxi are good characters with some flaws. Braco is funny, just like Napo. Even though Jade and Matias can be too much sometimes, and they aren't the best people, I have had such a good laugh because of them so many times. I also like Gregorio as a character; however, sometimes he is too annoying. I don't like how he treats the students, especially Tomas. Everything that has happened to him was an accident, and even before that, he already hated Tomas, but he isn't that bad, and he deserved better treatment. Pablo is nice; I feel bad for him because of Angie. I think that kiss was unnecessary, and the whole relationship lies as well. Angie should've thought about Pablo's feelings, especially since she's already known about his feelings for her. 

It was a good 35 episodes, and I will be back with the rest soon, but before that, I will make another post about the very first 40 episodes of Soy Luna. 

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Saneamento Básico, o Filme

Dir. Jorge Furtado

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"Historia de la Nación Latinoamericana", de Jorge Abelardo Ramos en la #LíneaB @Edicontinente