Immigration Chronicles  Blogging the issue with the Chronicle
staff  Presidential debates in Spanish? Sí   If it was good
enough for YouTube shouldn’t it be good enough for Univisión?
The omnipresent video sharing site made headlines when it
partnered with CNN to broadcast a presidential debate last
month. Now Univisión plans to make its own history by airing the
first U.S. presidential debates in Spanish Sept. 9 and 16 in
Miami. Questions at the live debate would be simultaneously
translated into English.  But there are, naturally, some issues.
I just returned this weekend from the annual Asian American
Journalists Association convention in Miami where I first heard
about the story.  Jorge Mursuli, executive director of Mi
Familia Vota/Democracia USA and vice president of People for the
American Way, raised the issue during a “Town Hall” meeting I
attended on “The Impact of the Emerging Immigrant Vote on the
2008 Election.” Apparently, Hillary Clinton has declined to
attend the Univisión debate while Barack