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Edgard Portela

News Analyst
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Edgard Portela is the Media Research Center’s Latino division news analyst and a bilingual contributor to NewsBusters since February 2016. He is the author of the MRC Latino study that looked into coverage of the situation in Venezuela in 2016, Venezuela Crisis Coverage: Univision, Telemundo Put ABC, CBS & NBC To Shame (Spanish version).

In an interview for Univision, Bernie Sanders shied away from speaking about US foreign policy and Latin America, in particular his speechlessness on the failures of socialism in Venezuela. Edgard Portela caught the moment, and was featured in many conservative news outlets like The Blaze, American Thinker, Red Alert Politics, and Hot Air, among others. He also caught the Vermont Socialist advocating for the release of an unrepentant terrorist from a communist extremist group, Oscar López Rivera, in a campaign stop in Portela’s native city San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Portela has been a leader in the conservative movement since his days as an undergraduate at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, MI (2008), where he studied Political Science and Economics, and served as Chairman of College Republicans. He is a long time suffering Detroit Lions fan.


Latest Blogs

Jorge Ramos acusa de racismo a Donald Trump

Latino
Edgard Portela
June 15th, 2016 3:23 PM

Univisión y Telemundo ignoran iniciativa republicana contra la pobreza

Latino
Edgard Portela
June 15th, 2016 2:40 PM

Ramos Runs With Racist Charge Against Trump

Latino
Edgard Portela
June 14th, 2016 8:00 PM
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Univisión y Telemundo celebran la victoria de Clinton en las primarias

Latino
Edgard Portela
June 13th, 2016 2:17 PM
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Partidarios de Trump ausentes los domingos en Univisión y Telemundo

Latino
Edgard Portela
June 13th, 2016 2:03 PM

GOP Anti-Poverty Initiative Ignored By Top Spanish Nets

Edgard Portela
June 10th, 2016 12:44 PM
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Clinton Win Prompts Celebratory Coverage on Univision, Telemundo

Latino
Edgard Portela
June 8th, 2016 7:39 PM
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Hillary le dice a Univisión que en vez de un muro, construirá puentes

Latino
Edgard Portela
June 8th, 2016 2:29 PM
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Univisión llama “subversivos” a manifestantes violentos contra Trump

Latino
Edgard Portela
June 7th, 2016 5:33 PM
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Pro-Trump Republicans MIA on Univision, Telemundo Sunday Shows

Latino
Edgard Portela
June 7th, 2016 4:59 PM
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Univision Skewers Trump on PGA Tournament Move to Mexico

Latino
Edgard Portela
June 6th, 2016 4:08 PM

Surprise: Univision Identifies ‘Subversives’ In Anti-Trump Protests

Latino
Edgard Portela
June 5th, 2016 4:56 PM

No verás esto en Univisión o Telemundo: Maduro apoya Bernie Sanders

Latino
Edgard Portela
June 5th, 2016 3:27 PM
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Jorge Ramos de Univisión expresa su apoyo al suicidio asistido

Latino
Edgard Portela
June 5th, 2016 10:19 AM
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Hillary Tells Univision Instead of Wall, She Will 'Build Bridges'

Latino
Edgard Portela
June 2nd, 2016 9:52 PM

A Story You Won't See: Venezuela’s Maduro Feels The Bern

Latino
Edgard Portela
June 2nd, 2016 3:01 PM
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Assisted Suicide Cause Gets Boost from Jorge Ramos

Latino
Edgard Portela
June 2nd, 2016 8:30 AM
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Venezuela: Univisión y Telemundo avergüenzan ABC, CBS y NBC

Latino
Edgard Portela
May 31st, 2016 5:44 PM
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Cobertura superficial de Univisión de los candidatos hacia evangélicos

Latino
Edgard Portela
May 29th, 2016 3:02 PM

En Puerto Rico, Bernie promete perdón para terrorista impenitente

Latino
Edgard Portela
May 26th, 2016 3:37 PM