Globo reporter gets into trouble with biased interview.
Former Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda contradicts journalist Tatiana Farah, from the newspaper 'O Globo': “When the Brazilian economy began to stagnate, the international press started saying that the new power in Latin America would be Mexico. That's somewhat false. Brazil continues to receive much more foreign investment than Mexico.”
By Political Pragmatism
The journalist from O Globo, Tatiana Farah, interviewed the former Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda. Either she is ill-informed or she threw banana peels at him in three questions, but received three rejections in return.
Cringe-worthy moments. See the questions and answers below:
Journalist: "Has Brazil stagnated in its economic aspirations and shrunk in terms of its international projection?"
Foreign Minister: "Brazil has a very important international economic role. It is a voice that is being heard."
Journalist: "Have the countries of the Pacific Alliance grown more than those of Mercosur? Why?"
Chancellor: “That’s false. Brazil is growing faster than Mexico. And there are no ‘Pacific countries.’ There’s one large country, which is Mexico, one medium-sized country, which is Colombia, and two small countries, which are Peru and Chile. It’s not true that the Pacific countries grew faster. That’s a fiction created by the markets in the international media. What happened is that expectations about Brazil were very high. It’s claimed that Mexico is growing faster than Brazil, but last year Brazil grew faster. And this year Brazil will grow faster than Mexico.”
Journalist: How do you rate the government of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto?
Chancellor: “It’s a government that had many good ideas, good intentions, some achievements, but we are not yet seeing the results. On the one hand, there is impatience and, on the other, skepticism. People are impatient and skeptical. It is possible that there will be results. But it is an unknown.”
When the Brazilian economy began to stagnate, the international press started saying that the new power in Latin America would be Mexico.
That's somewhat false. Brazil continues to receive far more foreign investment than Mexico. The Brazilian media is bad, the Mexican media is very bad, and the international media, when it talks about Brazil and Mexico, is terrible. It's very bad advice to listen to what the international media says about both Brazil and Mexico, because they are always wrong.”
Stanley Burburinho, Free Context