The Americanistas

Gustavo Faverón takes on Aldo Mariátegui, director of Peruvian newspaper Correo, accusing him of stoking prejudice against bilingual Peruvians who speak Quechua as their first language.

In a bit of sensationalistic “gotcha!” journalism, Correo published a front-page article showing how congresswoman Hilaria Supa included misspellings and grammatical errors in her notes during a recent legislative session.

Faverón takes Mariátegui to task here and here, in Spanish, and explains why it’s not just a tabloidy low blow, but “a transparent example of how the mind of a racist operates.”