JAIME BAYLY: I do believe you are an activist, and I am going to tell you why.
JORGE RAMOS: Go ahead.
JAIME BAYLY: …and in this case I am not asking a question, forgive me.
JORGE RAMOS: …no, no, no, an affirmation. It’s an analysis, of course.
JAIME BAYLY: I believe you are an activist against racism, a topic that you are very sensitive about. You are an activist in favor of immigration, legal and undocumented. You believe it enriches, the mix is good.
JORGE RAMOS: Yes
JAIME BAYLY: You are an activist who supports, for example, a free press, of not allowing authoritarian presidents to restrict the right of journalists to ask uncomfortable things. That is activism. Do you not recognize that in that you are an activist?
JORGE RAMOS: Let’s see. It’s that I believe the great danger…my first answer, upfront, is no. I am a journalist, not an activist. I am just a journalist who asks questions, no? That is all. That would be my answer and I would remain silent and I would tell you, like Uribe, next question?
JAIME BAYLY: hahaha
JORGE RAMOS: hahaha, of course. Yes, yes, yes. Don´t you have another question?
JAIME BAYLY: hahaha
JORGE RAMOS: Really, Uribe never wanted to answer.
JAIME BAYLY: Yes
JORGE RAMOS: Do you have another question, Mr. Bayly?
JAIME BAYLY: hahaha
JORGE RAMOS: No, but, I think what´s important here is to understand that the definition of a real journalist, a complete journalist, is one who at a given moment is willing, Jaime, to take a stand. Elie Weisel, the Holocaust survivor who recently passed away, winner of the Nobel Peace prize, said that neutrality only helps the oppressor, never the victims and I believe that our vision of what it is to be a journalist does include what you define as activism, but I believe that more than activism, it is a humanitarian position, humanist, before certain things.