In a surprise report on the migrant caravans, Univision shifted from its usual portrayal of the migrants as hapless victims, and instead exposed the alleged terrorist ringleader among them: Alfredo Guerrero Ulloa. The Honduran fugitive, who joined the caravan last month, recently received vast media coverage not for the violent crimes of which he is accused in his native country, but for demanding that the U.S. Government pay $50,000 to every Honduran in the caravan to return home, an ultimatum that even many members of the caravan have criticized.

As Univision’s Jorge Fregoso details in his report, Guerrero Ulloa was identified as the prime suspect of having planted a bomb in 1987 that wounded six American soldiers in Honduras. Only a handful of media outlets have delved into his background and his hatred of the United States. Most focused solely on his most recent attempt to extort the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana.

In the Univision report, Pueblo Sin Fronteras (People Without Borders) spokesman Irineo Mujica was also featured rushing to distance his organization from Guerrero Ulloa.

JORGE FREGOSO, CORRESPONDENT, UNIVISION: The controversial character, signaled for terrorism for his involvement in the attack on six U.S. soldiers in Honduras, says he joined the migrant caravan on November 4 in Córdoba, Veracruz. However, he is unknown to members of Pueblo Sin Fronteras. IRINEO MUJICA, COORDINATOR, PUEBLO SIN FRONTERAS: Well, we haven´t seen him, for instance, at any shelter center, walking with the migrants, then, well, he is a person who is also sometimes an outsider.

Through its more detailed coverage of the issue, in addition to confirming the infiltration of the migrant caravans by unsavory characters like Guerrero Ulloa, Univision also underscored another truth about the primordial economic motivation of most of the asylum-seeking members of the caravan. However, economic duress is not an acceptable basis for claiming asylum in the United States, or anywhere else for that matter.

Below is the complete transcript of the above-referenced report, as broadcast during the December 13, 2018 edition of Noticiero Univisión.