Ricky Martin: Latinos Must Unite Against Donald Trump

Puerto Rican singer and actor Ricky Martin wrote Spanish and English op-eds for Fusion and Univision slamming Donald Trump‘s rhetoric towards Latinos and defending Univision anchor Jorge Ramos‘ harsh questioning of the candidate at a press conference.

“It’s time for Latinos to unite against Donald Trump,” reads the English headline. “The fact that a person like Donald Trump, a candidate for the U.S. presidency for the Republican Party, has the gall to continue to freely harass the Latino community day after day makes my blood boil,” Martin writes.

“Jorge Ramos was doing his job as a journalist in a press conference, which he attended representing one of the world’s most important television networks for Hispanics and exercising his right of freedom of the press. Yet, Trump verbally assaulted and removed Jorge from the event without any apparent reason,” he continued.

“It has to stop!” Martin writes. “If we have been united for some things, we must be united for all. We have already proven to the United States who we are as Latinos, and that we will not allow that type of behavior. We have to stop the power that Trump feels he has over Latinos, and the xenophobic speech that he and his campaign team seem to be convinced will be successful.”

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