The news of last week’s appearance by President Hipolito Mejia on the US Spanish-language Univision TV channel is beginning to make waves in the country. During the interview, the President made several controversial comments, including insinuations about the sexual preferences of opposition party members, and used a racist term to refer to a camera operator. US-based Mexican journalist Jorge Ramos asked the President some difficult questions during the broadcast, ranging from his re-election ambitions to allegations of nepotism in his administration. Diario Libre’s back-page editorial comment says that “the damage done is more electoral than personal,” and that, although Dominicans are accustomed to the President’s style and tend to let a lot of things like this pass, his performance of last week can only serve to harm his reputation in the United States, as well as on his home ground.