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Pamela Cerdeira

A reality show, une magistrade, AMLO and polarization

You know or think you know your followers, the issues I have always defended mean that few people are surprised by an interview like this, so I did not expect to read so much violence.
A reality show, une magistrade, AMLO and polarization
By Pamela Cerdeira

She had just left La Casa de los Famosos. Bárbara Torres arrived ready for the interview but with many things in her head, and even more things in her heart. "You know what it's like to have people believe things about you that they are not. I am not a bad person," she told me, words more, words less. She had never received hate, she made people laugh, people loved her. In the reality show, the image of the bad person was built. Barbara wants to see those people in the face, to be told in front of their faces the horrible things they have said to her in messages. Barbara talked about what her son told her when he received her and how the conversation was polarized. Polarized? By a reality show?

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