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Latinos for Trump spread rumors in Tijuana that George Soros was responsible for last November's refugee caravan, led harassment campaigns against individuals, misrepresented themselves as Tijuanenses to unsuspecting non-local reporters, & acted as "correspondents" for Infowars
Here's one of the more visible members of this group kpbs.org/news/2018/dec/…
Another person, Fidel Ernesto Gonzalez Hernandez, is uncritically quoted in piece after piece as a "protest organizer"
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More about him, and others. He's not shy about it! hillreporter.com/leaders-anti-c…
It seems to me that reporting on Latinos for Trump without mentioning the Infowars and open Nazi sympathizers aspects is extremely irresponsible
"Holocuentistas" basically means "Holocaust liars," as in he's a denier 
Another example of why local journalism and regional expertise matter
Here's something I wrote about all of this at the time truthorfiction.com/central-americ…
