MRC Latino | June 12, 2019
JOSÉ DIAZ-BALART, ANCHOR, TELEMUNDO: If you are going to buy doughnuts today you may get them for free. It’s National Doughnut Day and many businesses are giving away the sweet craving, as happens every first Friday in June. Even so, consumers spend 57 percent more on donuts this day. The celebration began in 1938 as a tribute to the volunteers who distributed these rings of bread and sugar to…
MRC Latino | June 6, 2019
JORGE RAMOS, ANCHOR, UNIVISION: Speaking about politics, the main Democratic presidential candidates posted their positions on immigration and border security to questions from Univision News. At least 16 candidates explained how they would change the current immigration policies of the country and many of their answers contrasted with those of President Trump. You can follow their answers on…
MRC Latino | June 4, 2019
ILIA CALDERÓN, ANCHOR, UNIVISION: Documents from a late Republican strategist show that the true intention of the question of citizenship in the census is to intimidate Hispanics and benefit the party. The evidence is already in the hands of the Supreme Court, which must decide whether it is legal or not ask about citizenship.
MRC Latino | May 31, 2019
TSI-TSI-KI FÉLIX, HOST: Like many women that consider that, obviously, the right to one’s own body, to determine what we shall do with it is very important. But, how do you craft an argument against those women who think that babies are being murdered? How does one reach that level of compromise, Johani? JOHANI ADAMES, PLANNED PARENTHOOD: Of course, you’re talking about bodily autonomy,…
MRC Latino | May 30, 2019
JOSÉ DÍAZ-BALART, ANCHOR, TELEMUNDO: The leader of the anti-immigrant group ensures that they turned over all the documents and that two workers authorized the construction.
MRC Latino | May 29, 2019
JOSÉ DÍAZ-BALART, ANCHOR, TELEMUNDO: The private wall that is being built by an anti-immigrant group at the border has sparked a wave of repudiation, both from area activists as well as residents. Beyond the criticism, cranes continue to raise the fence which at this moment is half a mile long, and its authors do not seem willing to give up easily.
MRC Latino | May 27, 2019
JORGE RAMOS, SENIOR ANCHOR, UNIVISION: Congresswoman, I’d like to set aside the issue of the children and talk to you about the possibility that President Donald Trump be impeached. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had this to say in that regard:   SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI (D-CA): We do believe that it’s important to follow the facts. We believe that no one is above the law, including the President of…
MRC Latino | May 27, 2019
ADRYANA ALDEEN, PRO-LIFE ACTIVIST: You mention your children, I’m also a mother. These babies that are our great children -thank God for their lives- we carried them in our wombs, Ana Maria. And all those human beings, ourselves included, were in our mother’s womb. We must also think about the lives of these children, and there are many other options before (making) an abortion decision, and an…
MRC Latino | May 19, 2019
GUSTAVO VALDES, CORRESPONDENT, CNN: Protection of lives such as that of Mariela Jiménez. MARIELA JIMÉNEZ, PRO-LIFE ACTIVIST: Well, my mom was six months pregnant and she had a preeclampsia that was killing her and they told her, “look, your daughter is not viable”... VALDES: That daughter is now an attorney, and she witnessed the ceremony where Brian Kemp signed the bill known as “First…
MRC Latino | May 16, 2019
JORGE RAMOS: Do you believe that what Ronald Reagan said was true? That Latinos are really Republicans but don’t know it yet? For example, on abortion: have you noticed a change in Latinos’ way of thinking?   PALOMA ZÚÑIGA, PRO-TRUMP ACTIVIST: 100%. 100%. We are conservative by nature. Our cultures are, in fact (conservative). And here, they’ve greatly divided us. But we Latinos are completely…