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Univision, America’s Spanish news giant, reaches out to Donald Trump

Under the network’s new owners, nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition

The Univision building in Los Angeles, California
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The last time Donald Trump took questions on camera from Univision, America’s biggest Spanish-language television network, the reporter ended up being bundled out of the room by Mr Trump’s security. “Go back to Univision!” jeered Mr Trump, as Jorge Ramos, the channel’s star anchor, refused to stop asking questions at a press conference in 2015. Univision, then owned by a big Democratic Party donor, was seen as hostile by many Republicans.

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