| Mayor Says Women Should Be Watching Mexican Soap Operas, Not the News Roque Planas - The Huffington Post | |
| go to original March 25, 2015 |
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Alcalde pide a mujer ver novelas y no noticieros (Antonio Hernández)
The mayor of the northern Mexican city of Chihuahua is taking heat for urging a crowd of women to watch soap operas instead of the news during a speech delivered this week.
During an event to mark the Day of the Domestic Worker, Javier Garfio Pacheco of the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party led a raffle for a plasma-screen television and went on to praise them, saying they're the best units for watching soap operas - or “telenovelas” - during breaks from work.
“No news - because the news isn’t so good,” Garfio Pacheco said in the speech, while shaking his finger at a crowd of female domestic workers. “Watch soap operas instead and above all good soap operas."
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