Brent Bozell, president of the conservative Media Research Center, is calling on the field of Republican presidential candidates to pull out of the planned Univision debate if the Spanish-language network doesn’t discipline its president of programming.
Last week, Alberto Ciurana, Univision’s president of programming and content, posted an image on his Instagram account that compared Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to Dylann Storm Roof, who is accused of a racially motivated attack on a church in Charleston, South Carolina.
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After media outlets reported on the image, Ciurana on Friday deleted it and posted a separate image on Instagram. It said, “I’m Mexican who was very upset by Mr. Trump’s recent comments about Mexican immigrants, but I should not have re-posted the photo.”
Trump has recently said that many Mexican immigrants, illegal ones in particular, are rapists. In response, Univision dropped Trump’s “Miss Universe” TV program from is schedule.
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“Univision must remove Ciurana from his current position immediately and salvage what credibility it has left,” Bozell said in a statement on Friday. “Ciurana’s ‘apology’ was nothing of the sort. He must personally apologize to Mr. Trump and his family. If he cannot apologize, and Univision will not discipline, the GOP should cancel its planned presidential debate on that network.”
Univision is scheduled to sponsor a presidential primary forum in March 2016.
