Salon.com > Rachel Scheier http://www.salon.com Wed, 30 May 2012 09:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Gerson Borrero, freestyle ranter http://www.salon.com/2001/10/31/borrero/ http://www.salon.com/2001/10/31/borrero/#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2001 20:00:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2001/10/31/borrero Gerson Borrero has been sued, boycotted, shouted at and punched. A few months ago, he got fired from the best-paying job he's ever had. He is foulmouthed, likes to insult people publicly and, not surprisingly, has a lot of enemies. Among the people he's insulted in the past are practically every politician in New York, President Bush and Jennifer Lopez. He once got dozens of angry calls when, on the radio, he questioned the sexual orientation of Jesus Christ. ("All I'm saying is life is long -- he had to do something for pleasure.") He doesn't like to say where he lives, because people threaten to kill him all the time. One union leader described him as "evil, except that is not a strong enough word."

Life, in other words, could not be better.

Borrero is the editor in chief of El Diario La Prensa, New York's oldest Spanish language newspaper. His promotion last year to the top editorial job at the paper, where he had been a columnist for several years, surprised a lot of people who knew him, because until that time he had been quite happily occupied venting his outrageous critiques, both in his columns and on a popular weekday radio show.

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