Jorge Ramos, Univision Crew Released

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By Madhur Dave
02/25/19 AT 11:24 PM

Univision anchor Jorge Ramos and other crew members were released after being detained for nearly three hours at the presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, on Monday.

The Spanish-language U.S. television network said the crew was detained while interviewing President Nicolas Maduro, who reportedly did not like the questions being asked. The team's equipment and recording from the interview were also taken away ...

https://www.ibtimes.com/jorge-ramos-univision-crew-released-detention-venezuela-2768417

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1. What happened between Jorge Ramos and Donald Trump

by Brian Stelter
August 31, 2015: 9:17 AM ET

... "What you want to do in an interview or in a press conference is to unmask, if possible, the person you are talking to," Ramos says. "When Donald Trump decided to throw me out, I think he was unmasked. That's the real Donald Trump."

At the Iowa press event on Tuesday, Ramos stood up and tried to ask Trump about the candidate's controversial immigration proposals. Trump told him to "sit down" because he hadn't been called on.

"Go back to Univision," Trump said.

Ramos refused to sit down. Security personnel escorted him out of the room -- something that Ramos said he "never expected" ...

https://money.cnn.com/2015/08/30/media/donald-trump-jorge-ramos-interview/index.html

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2. Univision anchor says Venezuelan government detained him

NICHOLAS CASEY
The New York Times

... Mr. Ramos said he had been detained for “more than two hours” before he was let go and allowed to return to his hotel. He said the government had confiscated his crew’s equipment, including their phones and memory cards ...

Mr. Ramos, a Mexico-born American journalist, is known for his confrontational questions, particularly with leaders who have attacked the press. In 2015, he tangled with Donald Trump, then a presidential candidate, during a news conference in which Mr. Trump eventually had guards force him out of the room ...

https://www.post-gazette.com/news/world/2019/02/26/Univision-news-anchor-Jorge-Ramos-detained-Venezuela-Maduro-interview/stories/201902260100

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3. How Univision's Jorge Ramos earns his viewers' trust

Profiles
October 5, 2015 Issue
By William Finnegan

When Jorge Ramos travels in Middle America, nobody recognizes him—until somebody does. Ramos is the evening-news co-anchor on Univision, the country’s largest Spanish-language TV network, a job he has held since 1986. A few weeks ago, I was on a flight with him from Chicago to Dubuque. Ramos, who is fifty-seven, is slim, not tall, with white hair and an unassuming demeanor. Wearing jeans, a gray sports coat, and a blue open-collared shirt, he went unremarked. But then, as he disembarked, a fellow-passenger, a stranger in her thirties, drew him aside at the terminal gate, speaking rapidly in Spanish. Ramos bowed his head to listen. The woman was a teacher at a local technical college. Things in this part of Iowa were bad, she said. People were afraid to leave their houses. When they went to Walmart, they only felt comfortable going at night. Ramos nodded. Her voice was urgent. She wiped her eyes. He held her arm while she composed herself. The woman thanked him and rushed away.

“Did you hear that?” he asked, at the car-rental counter. “They only go out to Walmart at night.”

In an Italian restaurant on a sleepy corner in downtown Dubuque, a dishwasher came out from the kitchen toward the end of lunch to pay her respects. She, too, fought back tears as she thanked Ramos for his work. He asked her how long she had been in Iowa. Five years, she said. She was from Hidalgo, not far from Mexico City, Ramos’s home town. She hurried back to the kitchen.

“We have almost no political representation,” Ramos said. He meant Latinos in the United States. “Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz won’t defend the undocumented” ...

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/05/the-man-who-wouldnt-sit-down

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4. Trump's Jorge Ramos news conference, annotated

By Chris Cillizza August 26, 2015

~snip~
(INAUDIBLE)

DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: OK. Who is next? Yes, please. Sit down. You weren't called. Sit down. Sit down. Go ahead.

JORGE RAMOS: I have the right --

TRUMP: No, you don't. You haven't been called.

RAMOS: I have the right to ask a question.

TRUMP: No, you haven't been called. Go back to Univision.

Go ahead. Go ahead.

(INAUDIBLE)
~snip~

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/26/donald-trumps-iowa-news-conference-annotated/?utm_term=.9b939a17487d

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5. Ramos: Donald Trump, I Don't Want to Be Your Friend

By JORGE RAMOS March 3, 2017

... So let me concentrate on the other two things that define me. I want to tell you what it means for me to be an immigrant and a journalist in the era of Donald Trump. I feel such a sense of mission that, at 58, I think I’ve been preparing all my life for this moment, for this fight.

Yes, it’s a fight.

This country gave me the opportunities that my country of origin couldn’t give me. I left Mexico in 1983 because of censorship. Back then you simply couldn’t criticize the Mexican president in the media. I tried and failed. So just imagine my shock when I arrived in the U.S. and everybody was criticizing the American president with no consequences. My first thought was: I love this country!

Every immigrant can tell you this story: that something pushed them out of their country of origin and that something else, just as forcefully, pulled them into their new, adopted nation ...

http://time.com/4687936/jorge-ramos-donald-trump-harvard-speech/

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6. Ramos: We can't "be neutral" with a president like Trump

PRI's The World
May 04, 2018 · 3:30 PM EDT
The World staff

... I'm an immigrant from Mexico, and this country has been incredibly generous to me. I left Mexico when I was very young. There was a lot of censorship in Mexico. There was no democracy. And this country gave me the opportunities that my country of origin couldn't give me. I was censored in Mexico because I was criticizing the president, and my boss told me I couldn't say that. And in the end, I quit and I left and came to this country. And when I realized that you could criticize the president here, and nothing happens, I thought it was beautiful.

So it's been like that for decades, until Donald Trump came in. When he said that Mexican immigrants were criminals and rapists, I knew that he was lying. And he was talking about me. That's when I thought that not only as an immigrant and as a US citizen, but that as a journalist, I needed to take a stand ...

What we listen to almost every single day from President Trump, and from his tweets, is the idea that immigrants and foreigners and refugees — like the refugees that we have right now at the border between Tijuana and San Diego right now — that they are all "bad hombres," that they are criminals. And the reality is exactly the opposite. Immigrants are less likely to be criminals and to end in jail than those born in the United States. Immigrants are here not because they want to kill Americans or they want to go to Disneyland. They are here simply because there are jobs for them, and they are doing the jobs that nobody else wants to do ...

I believe that as journalists — you are a journalist, and I'm a journalist — that we have to report reality as it is, not as we wish it would be. So if something is red, we say red. And if 17 people died, we say 17. And I think everybody agrees with that. However, when it comes to certain issues, I think it is our social responsibility to question those who are in power and to give voice to the voiceless ...

https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-05-04/jorge-ramos-we-cant-be-neutral-president-trump

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7. Scary dictator not so mature Nicky

is definitely off his medication. So glad that the journalists were released! Has the whole fn world gone totalitarianism on us?

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8. the best way to prove you arent a dictator

is to detain the first journalist to accuse you of being one. great job, guy

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9. So Maduro considers the media enemy of the people

Where did I hear that before?