Peruvian Sportscaster's Racist Comments Trigger Outrage Across Two Countries
Translation posted 30 June 2017 17:04 GMT
Statements made by a sportscaster have sparked controversy and revived a debate over racial discrimination in Peru.
On June 14, while discussing the pending football match between Peru and Ecuador for the 2018 World Cup qualification, Phillip Butters, the host of a TV program called ComButters, referred first to the Afro-Ecuadorian players, and then centered specifically on one of them, Caicedo, calling him a monkey and a gorilla.
His comments, shown in the video below, drew an immediate reaction from the Afro-Peruvian community, followed by a series of statements from the Peruvian government and the Ecuadorian government.
Translation
With the Bolivians in Lima, there's no big problem. [
] Afterwards, we'll play against Ecuador in Quito. The Ecuadorians aren't black, they're mountain crocodiles. They have biceps in their eyelids, brother. If they did a DNA test on Caicedo, he isn't human, he's a monkey. A gorilla.
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