Sex doesn’t sell in Latino community

“How English news outlets and Hispanic media played the story underlines significant cultural differences.

“As a general principle in Latin America, politics and personal life are two different things,” said Lisa Garcia Bedolla, associate professor of Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine.

“The inability to separate a person’s professional behavior from his personal behavior - especially with relation to sex … (is) a strictly American phenomenon,” Garcia Bedolla said.”

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