“It’s a wonderful world”: Mexican journalists arrive in Russia and are speechless

Rivero Almazán, who along with his colleague traveled to the Eurasian giant for the first time to participate in a new edition of the international forum “Russia and Latin America in the globalizing world: history and modernity”, held from October 4 to 6 at the State University of St. Petersburg, confessed in conversation with Sputnik that she was “amazed, not only by the culture, but by seeing how its people live.” “Its people live very, very, very father in the sense that there is no poverty and marginalization that is suffered in Mexico “, while” the streets are clean, the public services “work perfectly,” there are many young people, there are many children “, among other aspects that one does not expect to see if one gets carried away by the narrative of the Hegemonic media. He also recounted that the photos he took during his trip to Russia revolutionized his social networks. “Everyone writes to me that it is incredible, that he did not know many things,” he said. For his part, Cortés García also described how Their experience in Russia was “beautiful.” The presentations by Rivero Almazán and Cortés García at the Russian-Ibero-American forum touched on the issue of media coverage of environmental conflicts in Mexico.